Chapter 9
Chapter 9
“Jaxon, if I weren’t the chairman’s daughter, would you be sitting here saying any of this to me right now?”
‘You’d probably be partying with Bella overseas, celebrating your success.”
axon dropped his head, too ashamed to look me in the eye.
‘Claire took ten years to make VP. You did it in half that time. You think that was all your own ‘blood, sweat ind tears’?” I stood up, throwing his own words back at him.
He had no clue I’d been hiding my identity, and he never knew how much I’d helped him behind the scenes
hese past six years.
ust one casual compliment from my father was enough to cut through miles of red tape and get him stablished in the department.
ut he’d never paid attention to any of that.
You chose your own path, so deal with the consequences yourself.”
As for what we had?”
The second you decided to use me as a stepping stone, you should’ve stopped thinking about any kind of
uture.”
Vork was crazy busy-those ten minutes were all the charity I had left for him.
took a call while walking out, leaving Jaxon sitting there like a stone statue, completely motionless.
Three days later, he didn’t accept the reassignment his boss offered.
nstead, he submitted his resignation.
Bella did the same. She was just an intern anyway, easy come easy go. But after this whole mess, her
eputation in the States was pretty much shot. Getting into another company under my father’s umbrella would be next to impossible.
As for Jaxon, I never bothered following up on what happened to him.
Young love was like a bouquet of delphiniums-once it wilted, it was done. I wasn’t interested in pressing it into some scrapbook to reminisce over.
My life was already consumed by my career. From VP to officially taking over Dad’s company, I much
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preferred this kind of fulfilling, challenging existence.
Years later, at some business dinner, I thought I spotted Jaxon once.
He was trailing behind some minor executive, carrying his briefcase and being super kiss-ass.
Madison told me his job hunt after leaving hadn’t gone so well. He was too proud to start from the bottom again, and Bella kept popping up to cause trouble, making potential employers nervous about crossing me
and my company.
So he had to settle for these kinds of small-time gigs.
But whatever-besides talent, he was probably pretty good at that kind of thing too.
Like I said before: you made your bed, now lie in it.
But around me, champagne flowed and handshakes sealed new ventures that would shape my empire. This vas where I belonged-in boardrooms, not bedrooms full of lies.
Summer was ending, autumn calling, and I was ready to embrace whatever came next. One step at a time,
ne victory at a time, toward a future that was finally, completely mine.
