Seduce My Father's Rival (completed)

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is officially out of reach. You let him slip aw

ne. I was tired of this speech. I'd heard a variation of it at least three t

me since I'd imagined myself ending up with Hudson Pierce

sort of comfort in lamenting over her daughter's failur

he ever was, and I'm not at all surprised. A man will leave a wife easi

It was a manipulative redirection on my part. It disgusted me that she pretended otherwis

i

ault too, not that either of our m

ed when my mother huf

Likely, she'd picked it up through the grapevine. A friend of a friend or overheard it at a

nly weren't of the popular variety

. Even The Game had lost

you about this," my mother droned on. "It

the two simple syllables. That was a lifetime ago now. The bruise he'd left was permanent and yellowed with age, and I pressed at it som

e I came

me. He'd been the one to teach me how to feel nothing. How to be not

Hudson. Good f

. "You don't even realize how much you gave up when you let him get aw

seemed to slip in now and again. My mother didn't know shit about me, no matter how close she p

ven take a salary for myself. I was a trust fund baby for all intents and purposes, living off my father's business, Werner Media. And while all of my choices were purposeful, I

, my best bet wa

Mom." My tone was clipped, and I brusq

tel. I was running late, but I knew this building from a lifetime of living among the upper crust of New York, and I didn't have to stop to ask for directions. The meeting rooms were a quick elevator ride up one floor to

aight to my destination. Inside the foyer for the Fontainebleau Room,

nd a small table at the opposite end of the foyer. He seemed to be deeply focused on the book he was reading and had

pared, I approached him. "Excuse me,

e a seat." He propped his book open by placing it face down on the table and then stood and circl

nned the foyer and found a bench to sit on.

uy meeting me at

interview me as part of a general meeting of some sort. It made sense in that case to go to them rather than the other way around. But something about the vibe of the situation made me start to doubt my