Insta Love Alpha Male Series Box Set by Hope Stone

Author:Hope Stone
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-12-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8: Alistair

I quickly motioned for the bill, trying to distract Anna from asking me once again what my problem was with my brother. I didn’t like to talk about it. It was hard to explain, anyway. If it was just one thing, I would have gotten over it by now. But it wasn’t. It was a lifetime of being Mason’s younger, lesser-known brother. At school, I wasn’t as popular as him and didn’t make the top of the honors list every year. I was never as good as him at anything.

But then, when we started the business together all those years later, I handled everything. I came up with the idea, I wrote the business plan, I hired the first staff. And I was damn good at it. And then, years later, once the company was thriving and we had tens of thousands of employees and very happy investors, he conspired with my second-in-command to cut me out of the business. And the worst part was that my second-in-command was about to be my wife and he was sleeping with her. See, there were a lot of things that made me hate my brother. He was calculating, manipulative and didn’t have a conscience.

I never told my mother what had happened. She would have been mortified. And he brushed off my dislike of him, saying that it was just business and I was being unreasonable. Well, at least my ex got what was coming to her when he dumped her after he got full control of the company.

I’d done pretty well for myself since then, at least. I had a new business and it was thriving. It was smaller than our previous company, but the profits were double. Part of me was hoping to rub that in his face over the weekend, but another part of me just wanted to avoid the whole thing.

“Now, what are you thinking about?” Anna asked me, breaking the silence as we drove back to the house.

“How delicious that burger was.” I laughed.

By the time we reached the house, it was 5 pm and we were invited into the drawing room for pre-dinner drinks. I was told there were guests and I suddenly forgot to breathe. I hoped it wasn’t my brother. I was actually having a good day and the thought of seeing him would ruin all of that. But it wasn’t my brother. It was my cousin Laura and her husband and kids.

I immediately lightened up as I introduced Anna to my favorite cousin and her family. Laura and I were the same age and had grown up almost as if we were brother and sister. She was lots of fun to be around and I was even godfather to her twin daughters, Laila and Lisa. The kids had loads to tell me about and I spent a good deal of time going through the pictures that they had drawn for me.

By the time dinner arrived, Anna and I looked at each other with a knowing look.

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