Flight Risk by Amelia Wilde EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Amelia Wilde
- Language: English
- Genre: Billionaire Romance
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JAMESON
Hopes and dreams are bullshit.
Here’s an example. As a kid, I used to hope that I’d grow up to
be like my dad. He was a pillar of righteousness. We had a big house
in a nice-as-hell neighborhood. He was obviously, openly in love with my
mom. He loved us, too. And he always, always did the right thing.
That’s the joke. The punch line is that his sons look just like him,
including me. I grew up to be his image, but I’m nothing like him.
That’s what my brothers are for.
My middle brother, Gabriel—the human form perfected, a charmer to
the core—waves his hand in front of my face. “Are you attending this
meeting or what?”
I bat his hand away. “I’m sitting right here, asshole.”
Right here is a small mahogany meeting table in a room near my oldest
brother Mason’s office. Plush carpeting. Comfortable furniture with
silhouettes that are so timeless you know it cost a fortune. Early-June sun
filters through outrageously expensive windows that Mason had installed
building-wide at Phoenix and at his apartment building last year for some
secret reason. That all tracks, because Phoenix Enterprises is a multibilliondollar company.
It’s the real estate company my brother clawed out of concrete and
airtight contracts after our parents died when he was eighteen. The first few
years afterward were hell. My brothers have found their way out, which is
nice for them.
Mason watches me, forehead creased with concern. “Something on your
mind?”
A crime scene. That’s what’s on my mind. The giant meeting-room
windows show the Manhattan skyline, but I didn’t see the other buildings or
the fluffy, innocent-looking clouds in the sky or the little airplane pulling a
banner that says GOT INSURANCE?
Instead: photos printed from a copy shop, their edges slipping together
in my shaking hands. Smoking rubble and a half-melted office chair and a
wedding ring glinting silver, surrounded by ash.
I will not remember that in this meeting. I won’t have those thoughts. I
just won’t.
I flash Mason a grin to cover the oh-fuck sensation of being caught out.
Since Gabriel almost got himself killed last fall, I’ve put a ridiculous
amount of effort into playing the role of a man who has it together, both in
our family and at Mason’s company.
The slip-ups are happening more often.
“I was waiting until you got around to the effusive praise you owe me.”
Gabriel takes a sip of his Frappuccino, which is absolutely full of
caramel—swirls all through the blended coffee and sprayed over the
whipped cream. He peers at me over the rounded lid. “Did you do
something praiseworthy?”
“Yes he did, Gabriel.” Mason looks so satisfied, like he made this
happen. He’s not wrong. He made this happen in lots of ways.
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