Finn silently stood there in the room. She couldn’t look up at him, as she was fearful of the look in his eyes. His silence seemed to be the answer to her question. She knew he was going to fight her for Jacob. She had nine years of being his mother and had done the best possible job she could but he had the money for the best attorneys and if he took her to court he’d probably win.It didn’t help her case that Jacob was so needy of a father, he’d bonded with him instantly. The courts always interviewed the kids. They’d ask him if he wanted to be with his father or his mother and in her child’s innocence, he’d tell them he wanted to be with both his parents.They’d look at what each parent could provide and he’d win hands down. She’d fight him the entire way but she’d just be fighting the inevitable. She felt defeated and devastated.“I won’t take you to court Lilith but not because I give a damn what it would do to you. You don’t deserve my consideration. I won’t do it, because I won
“You didn’t leave,” Jacob exclaimed, as he jumped from the bed and threw his arms around his father. Finn picked him up and sat down on her bed. Lilith scrambled up into a sitting position and pulled her legs up to her chest, hugging them tightly. Finn looked over at her with an expression that seemed to say, I told you there was no other answer. She knew he was right.“Where were you then?” Jacob asked, as he looked from his father to his mother.“I was sleeping in the other room, bud,” Finn said as if that would satisfy him.“But mom and dad’s sleep together. Maryanne says when her mom and dad stopped sleeping in the same bed they stopped being married and then her dad found a new person that Maryanne has to call mom even though she doesn’t like her. She says she has to have two houses and doesn’t get to be with her mom and dad together anymore,” he said in the longest speech she’d ever heard him give. Then his tears started to fall again as he thought about it.“Your mom and I aren
Jacob was playing soccer with some other kids, leaving them alone together for the first time that day. Her whole body tensed at his words. She liked her home. She knew it was small but she’d been paying for it all on her own and she didn’t want to give it up.“I don’t want to sell my place,” she said, while crossing her arms and glaring at him.“You don’t have to sell it. You can rent it out if you want or just let it sit empty. I can hire a cleaning crew to come in once a week to make sure it doesn’t get moldy or damaged,” he offered.“Do I get a choice?” she snapped at him. She knew the place was too small and she knew they would be more comfortable with extra space but her world was being uprooted and she felt like she had no control over anything.“I’m not your enemy Lilith; I’m trying to do the right thing for my son. How does me wanting to watch him grow make me the enemy?” he asked her with exasperation.When he worded it like that she felt like the bad guy. It wasn’t fair he
Finn's POV:I looked around the crowded room and had to force myself not to yawn, i couldn’t stand attending events where everyone drank too much, laughed too loud and tried far too hard to impress each other, i knew i was what women considered a real catch. Hell, a stupid magazine had done a write up on NYC most eligible bachelors and placed my picture as number one, I had been furious and tried to have myself taken out of the article but my attorney had spouted some crap about freedom of speech, since the publishing of the article,i was being approached by even more materialistic females.The magazine listed my net worth as equal to the richest man in the world, they had also said i was tall, dark and handsome, he stood over six feet, with broad shoulders and muscles that rippled throughout his entire body, i hated gyms but i ran every morning and sometime in the evenings too, I had discovered at a young age that running was a great form of relieving my stress.I knew the second be
“David Gilbert is here tonight and he is talking to some people, trying to get investors,” Russell answered with seriousness in his old wrinkled face, the moment i heard what my old man said, I was on instant alert, i searched the room, spotting my enemy, he was the one who had made me the cut throat business man I had turned into.“It is far too late for him, by tomorrow morning his company will be mine, no matter what he tries tonight,” I said with a sneer, the sound of David's name caused anger coursing through my vein.As i watched David, a beautiful woman approached him, stepping up on her tip toes to kiss him on the cheek, david didn’t even bother to turn and acknowledge her, which she did not seem to notice, the man noticed nothing around him if it did not have dollar signs on it, not even his stunning daughter, my eyes narrowed to slits, I hadn’t seen Lilith for ten years and those years had been very good to her.Her dress was skin tight on top, dipping low in both the front
I had seen Finn in school from the time I was young but i really got to know him the summer before my senior year in high school. He had been from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, his family was dirt poor but he was always determined to make a success out of his own life and turn things around. Finn ended up helping me with my math and soon we were inseparable, i loved his hunger and motivation and the way he never talked down about anyone, i thought he was every one of my fairytales come to life.I found i was spending every waking moment with him, when my father found out i was dating a boy from the poor side of town he became very furious and demanded that i end the relationship, it was the first time in my life my father told me that I could not have something i wanted, it also was the first time I had defied my father.I had been stubborn, putting my foot down and continued to see Finn behind my father’s back, I dearly loved that he seemed to like me for me and not my mo
I planned on heading to the city and making something of myself so I could continue to give her all the things she was used to, i wanted to make sure she never went without anything, heck! I wanted to place her on a throne and spoil her rotten, i was ready to do or give her anything she wanted.That fateful day i had shown up at the church full of naïve teenager dreams and one bag when I heard approaching steps, I turned in anticipation, ready to see my Lilith, but my heart sunk at the sight of her father, the man approached with a sympathetic smile plastered on his face.“Finn, I’m sorry but Lilith asked me to come and speak with you,” David had stated, I didn’t understand why she would send her father to me after our arrangements and plans. “lilith said she could not face you but she did not want to leave here, i have some cash here to help you on your way, she said you planned to go to the city and I want to help you get there,” he said with that same smile on his face.I felt lik
Finn's POV::“It’s good to see you again, David,” i said, never losing my cool, I loved the look of anger mixed with fear in his eyes, i knew my mission was beginning to unfold, and i would not stop until I brings David Gilbert to his knees.“I was getting things straightened out and then you swoop in and steal my company out from under me,” the man continued to yell, he was so angry, his face was completely red and he could barely speak. The angrier David got, the calmer i felt.“I guess you should’ve run your business a bit more above ground and not left it vulnerable to a takeover,” I said. David looked like he wanted to jump across the room and strangle me to death, but held himself, trying to control his raging nerves.I looked over the man, who had seemed so much larger than life when I was still a teenager, the man now looked shrunken and old. It was satisfying.“I ran my business successfully, for over forty years, you pompous piece of trash, you may have the rest of the worl