Holt, Her Ruthless Billionaire by Theodora Taylor

Author:Theodora Taylor [Taylor, Theodora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rom Tell That
Published: 2017-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

I am still thinking about this truth on Friday morning after I drop off Wes and walk with Barron to his last class of the week: Intro to Neuroscience.

For a few hours, I sit in the back of the large lecture hall with a laptop, taking notes Barron probably won’t ever read since he already seems to have a firm grasp of the concepts anyway—at least enough to apply them to his bioHelmet. To the point that halfway through the class, he has asked so many questions about how some brain concept I don’t understand relates to some neurological concept I don’t understand, I am sure there will be another meeting with this professor in our future. He has already spoken with Barron about his bioHelmet project on two separate occasions, but the more Barron learns, the more he wants to apply—not to the upcoming test—but to his passion project.

Barron has been like this ever since he came up with the concept of the bioHelmet, a wearable device that can not only “read” what a person’s brain is feeling and thinking, but also transmit information straight into it. He was eight years old at the time and freshly arrived to the Tourmaline Ixtapa. But after that epiphany, he spent most of his days at the resort testing the device on game adults and iguanas alike. And now, even though he’s moved to the States and has started down an exciting new path as a college student, he still views most educational concepts through the lens of his ultimate goal.

He is obsessed with and focused on the bioHelmet to such a degree that I sometimes wish I could talk with his father about him. Because I know these qualities aren’t something he inherited from my side of a family. The Pinnocks are determined, hard workers, but I cannot imagine even Lydia, the smartest member of our family before Barron was born, ever being this driven toward a goal.

My phone buzzes in my purse, taking my thoughts away from Barron and the father he’s never known.

It is another overlong text message from Aunt Judith. I slide to see the full text since she is legitimately excited about my return to States. Unlike my mother, who never answers any of my calls or texts. Or Prin, who texted, Okay girl, I love you, but you are crazy for coming back here to work for Holt Calson of all people. Da fuck you thinking???

Six weeks later, I still haven’t responded to her question…or told her about the coercive aspect of my prodigal return. Mainly because I know her circumstances after the death of her now infamously debt-ridden father. Too broke to also support me and Barron along with the two stepsisters she has been saddled with, but too loyal not to immediately come to my rescue if she knew my real circumstances.

So my history with Holt has both screwed me out of a job and a long overdue reunion with my best friend from high school, I think bitterly as I begin to read Aunt Judith’s latest message.

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