Just Want Somebody to Love. Keri Ford
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Название: Just Want Somebody to Love
Автор: Keri Ford
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Короткие любовные романы
Серия: Bella Warren
isbn: 9781616507503
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Justin waited to try and gather words that didn’t involve shouting them. Shouting would get him nowhere. “I’ve worked hard. I want this.”
“I know you’ve worked hard.” Brandon nodded. “You’ve pored your life into it, and you’ve done a great job running it by yourself. I never doubted that you couldn’t. That’s why I’m not signing.”
“You’re not making any sense.” He admitted Justin was capable, and that’s why he wasn’t signing?
Brandon started to lean on the table, but stopped and pushed the papers out of the way as though they were disgusting. With the offending items out of his way, he leaned on the table and clasped his hands together. “All you’ve done is work. You don’t have anything to show for yourself besides work.”
“Oh you mean like having an ex-wife, like you?” Damn it. He regretted that the moment it popped out.
Brandon’s gaze narrowed, and he pushed from the table. “Is there anything else? I work hard too and I’m exhausted.”
Was there anything else? Yeah. There damn sure was a lot more. He was just at a loss on what to say as Brandon grabbed his glass and pushed his chair in. “I’ll see you in the morning.”
Justin watched him as he headed for the door. “That’s it?”
“What?”
Justin lifted his papers. “I come to you with this, and all you say is no because I work too hard?”
“Yeah.”
“Maybe if you were holding up your end of the partnership, I wouldn’t have to work so hard.” He pushed out of his chair. Brandon was not walking away from this. He couldn’t. Not after everything.
“Even if I was there, you’d work just as hard. All you know is trying to make that restaurant a success when there’s so much more to life.”
“How would you know? You’re in here six days a week, and you don’t have a single employee. You work just as hard as I do. If not more because I can at least take a sick day.”
Brandon looked down, his temper still intact, and that damnable calm tone of his voice remained. “Because I discovered there’s more and then lost it.”
Justin stared at the floor as anger bundled to a tight wad pounding through his veins. “That’s not my problem.”
“It needs to be a problem for you. You’re throwing your life away. There’s more than just that business out there.”
“This is my life’s work. I’m not throwing it anywhere. You are. I’m happy. I like my life. You’re the one trying to ruin it because you didn’t work hard enough for your marriage, and somehow that’s my load to carry?”
“I’m sorry you feel that way.”
“You’re sorry? That’s all you have to say for yourself? You’re ready to flush what I’ve worked my ass off for years to achieve, and you’re sorry about that? What is this, you fucked up your life, so you’re going to fuck up mine too?”
Brandon shook his head and walked out the room.
Justin fell back in his chair. The papers remained unsigned in front him. He fisted his hands, then reached for them. This wasn’t happening.
If Brandon refused to sign the papers, then it was time to figure a way to kick him off the partnership. A complete lack of input for the last several years had to be viable in that argument. Or somehow he had to make Brandon change his mind.
Justin got everything he set his mind to, and this was no different.
He pushed off the chair and headed upstairs for his things.
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