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October 11 - October 12, 2023
my family has owned this building and the land it’s on since before Blackwood was Blackwood, so… landlord?”
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“Your mother was sick,” Alan spoke up, since my father couldn’t seem to bring himself to. “The family’s personal accounts
drained, and the store was failing. Fast. We needed cash. We needed a Hail Mary, so…”
“You wouldn’t do that… please tell me you didn’t—”
“Not everything!” I hissed. “You never asked me, and I know you haven’t asked
Soren, because he would’ve talked to me. We both have money—”
“Better than one who sold off my mama’s legacy—my
birthright—to our goddamn competitor to what? Lease back from them?! Is that what’s been going on?!”
I bought it through a shell company, and for a steal at that, with the change in my cupholder.”
Of course ten million dollars was seat-cushion findings to him. Stellar Foods was a multi-billion dollar company,
What is it going to cost to buy this land back so you don’t… what, kick us out, bulldoze the building?”
as he looked to my father. “William… Alan… aren’t you going to tell her?”
“You can’t afford it. Nectar hasn’t operated in the black in… years.”
We have investments, we should have savings—”
with your Daddy’s gambling problem.”
He wouldn’t get my legacy without dragging me, clawing and
screaming and biting, every step of the way.
Orion met my gaze, no hesitation, unwavering. “You become my wife and I make sure Nectar never dies.”
“Have you all lost your minds?” That time, the question was for everybody. “This
some damn trading card to pass around!”
you are, like I said, educated, well-raised, incredibly attractive, reasonably successful, and Black,”
“You were on the cover of Sugar & Spice last year, with word going around that you were the most sought after woman in the city. Did you think it was a lie?”
need to settle down and I need a foothold in the heart of Blackwood. And I want both… right now.”
He probably needs a wife and an heir to get it. Those might even be prerequisites for a higher job role that he wants within Stellar Foods.”
Wealthy, smart, fine, ambitious, slick at the mouth, thighs bigger than my head and an ass to match?
“She will not let spite overrule preserving her mother’s legacy.” I shook my head.
“So she put her lawyer on it,” I mused, sitting forward.
smart woman,” Shiloh replied. “She has a contract. A premarital agreement with expectations, not to be confused with a prenup, which she wants as well.”
Nectar had been a topic of conversation for Stellar Foods. They had the market placement we sorely wanted, but hadn’t quite been able to master.
“There is nothing for us to discuss before our lawyers have completed contracts,” she insisted.
“Two years before a baby, not happening.”
“If you think I’m letting you in me raw before then, you’re delusional,” she snapped and turned to walk away.
“Not even if it means immediate transference of the land and building?” I called after her.
“Immediate,” I agreed. “To your married name, obviously. Nalani Sterling.”
“I want it in writing,” she gritted through her teeth. “And recent STD testing.
take your ass to the clinic today.”
Girlfriend is not playing with Mr Big Time!!!!!!!
“Just because this marriage might be convenient, you need to understand something right now;
it ain’t fake. I’m gonna parade you in public, fuck you in private, and otherwise ignore you, just like most wealthy marriages.”
“You try to sell this company—from under your own children, at that—and I accept, the first thing coming my way is a lawsuit.”
“So you tell me why on earth I would take this new offer, when I already have a perfectly good deal already in place?”
“You don’t believe I’d allow you on my payroll, do you?”
“No thanks to you,” I cut in. “Let’s be absolutely serious here, Mr. Stark… your wife and her family are the reason Nectar is what it is.
She was one the community adored and put up plaques for, not you.”
could swear she’s navigating your idiotic judgement, trying to right a sinking ship you never should’ve been at the helm of.”
“See… I’m speaking as if I know you, because I do… or do you think my father never told me about his coward ass ‘friend’
married into the competition’s family because it was the only avenue he had to claw his way into making a name for himself?”
He didn’t think my father had talked about it.
“Did you even love Larena Joyce or was she just a means to an end for you?”
“She signed a contract detailing exactly what this is and isn’t because I don’t have to trick her.”
You’re mad that even in death, he is still ahead of you? He had more money, a better business,
