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43. The fall

Author: Cord3lia
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JACKSON

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Kimberly wasn’t just angry at me. She was pissed, which was why she could barely look me in the face. I understood why she was pissed and I knew I deserved that. That didn’t mean I didn’t hate it though.

I was trying to pull her back into my life. I didn’t know how I managed to fuck everything up every damn time.

As she exited the car, I let out a sigh and went back inside the car. My phone rang again and I rolled my eyes, thinking it was Paige again, but it happened to be my father.

I answered the call and brought it up to my ear while watching Kimberly at the same time.

“Paige said you haven’t been taking her calls.”

“It’s only been a few minutes,” I told him. She was so quick to report me to my father anytime something happened. My father didn’t like her as well, especially after what she did to our company, but his grandson was involved so he had to take her calls as well. “I’ll call her back later.”

“No need. Just come back to New York. Asher is sick and is asking for
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Lalita Shankar
It’s hard to believe Paige son is his. She was controlling him before and would have used the opportunity to get ahead.
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Brenda
It would be nice if Paige SON was not his child
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