The boss’s eyes narrowed at me, and I knew that he was far from satisfied with my half-baked answer. For a moment, I began wondering if he had a similar conversation with Hayden before and then I realized that he probably had and probably more than just once. Perhaps pressuring Hayden didn’t seem to have any effect, so the old man had changed his approach to pressure me directly instead. I had to say that his methods were working. I was truly pressured and scared.
I could still recall our past interactions and his desperate longing for Hayden to have a child to continue the family’s legacy and the family business. Hayden wasn’t thrilled about taking over and he didn’t seem excited about pumping out an heir to fulfill his old man’s wishes either as far as I could tell.
