Chapter 44: Thankful

“This is your way of ‘taking care of it?’ By driving her around in public again?”

“Shut up. She wanted to visit the orphanage.”

Soren scoffed, unrelenting. “And you’re bringing her personally, because?”

“Shut up, Soren.”

The lawyer rolled his eyes. It was useless to talk to Vin about it. When he decided to do something, there wasn’t much Soren or anyone else could do about it.

Vin tried his best to ignore his right-hand man’s accusing tone. He didn’t have the patience and energy to deal with him, piling that on top of his pounding headache.

He had stayed up the entire night thinking about Callie’s request. He had to figure out how to allocate the budget for the shelter, and frankly, he didn’t think running one would cost so much.

It wasn’t big enough to leave a dent in Vin’s bank account, but the amount wasn’t loose change either. It was nearly daybreak when he was finally content with the accounts.

Callie was another issue he needed to think about. The hold that woman had on him wasn