Gael's heart pounded in his chest. It didn't help that the traffic was awful on the way home. He kept wondering about what Angela could possibly be thinking that made her want to leave. Trigger told him about Lauretta's messages to Angela in the afternoon. Gael should have known that that conniving woman would do something like this.
While worrying about Angela, his mind kept bringing him back to the conversation he had with his father on the SVR Corp private plane. He understood the plan and why they had to do it this way, but he refused to use J—and his father tricked him into signing, knowing he would never agree to it.
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"You can't use J like this. He's just a kid," Gael said as he sat across from his father at the table.
"He's twenty-six. He's an adult. He knows what he's doing."
