Valerie sat on her bed with her thoughts drifting, and then she heard the door open. She looked up and saw Max walking in.
"Hey." She said with a little solemn voice. "Is the old man gone yet?" She asked.
Max was still talking with Grampa Leo even after she ended her talk with Tiana and now it was almost past dinner time.
Max nodded and lay on the bed, dropping his head on her thigh and covering his face with one of his arms in exhaustion.
"I heard everything." He said, and Valerie gently stroked his head, brushing his hair softly with the tip of her fingers. "Things are far more complicated than I thought."
"Hm, yeah."
Valerie was calm. So calm that Max wondered if she was okay with what she heard from his mother.
When talking with Grampa Leo, he discovered that Romaine was a very powerful family and enterprise. They were literally running their own business empire and were on top of the entire world.
