CHAPTER EIGHT: WHAT THE FUCK WAS I DOING?

Lucian.

I had asked myself that question about a million times since I had set out on this crazy mission to fuck with Madison Lane. I was too old to be doing this shit I was doing. What I should have been doing Instead was keeping my head down and trying to figure out how to get my mother and the entire board off my back. They were relentless in their pursuit. It didn't matter how many of them I blocked, or how many times I told them I wanted nothing to do with the company. Of course, my mother's approach was different. She would call to update me everytime they got a new CEO and tell me how incompetent the old one was.

I didn't understand why they thought I'd be any better than the men they had been putting in charge. I knew nothing about running a multi billion dollar empire. But even if I did, I had zero interest in fortified. My only interest at the moment was Maddie. In fact my interest in her was becoming a problem. A huge one.

It didn't help that I had to see her everyday an