Family Issues

JAMES

This was exactly what I did not want to happen. I never wanted to freak Destiny out. Why the hell did she have to go snoop around in my affairs? It made me fucking angry. But not as angry as I was with my family.

HOURS EARLIER

I left the bar, rushing to my car and on impulse I turned the Bentley toward the Barrington Estate. This must have been my grandfather. Jenna has always been his favorite. Lord knows why. As if I didn’t know the answer to that, I ridiculed myself. She had a way with men. Could twist anyone with a dick around her finger.

It repulsed me to think that I loved her at some stage. Was it love, though? We were so young. What I felt for Destiny was so different.

Grandfather must have given her the passwords and account numbers because there was no way he could do internet transactions on his own. The man was practically a dinosaur.

But if it wasn’t him, then… No, my father wouldn’t do something like that. Would he? Could he be so duplicitous?

My brain reeled. Not