18. Hooked.

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Sebastian steps into the haunting and lonely interior of his Penthouse. His breathing lapsed as he wipes at his sweaty brows. Sweat that soaks his running clothes with sweat, as well as his face and grey tracksuit. Evidence that his morning begun any other, but Sebastian needed change to ease his mind—calm his scattered conceptions.

There was an ineffable need to settle the Merit Global merger, considering many were wary of the proceedings. The board had given River a day off, to gather his bearings and take care of his mother’s funeral. A process that Sebastian himself had dreaded each time he had gone through it himself. Burying a parent was never easy, burying two had already taken its toll on Sebastian. No matter how much he hated his father, it still hurt him when the man passed. Carlton Black’s recklessness had torn their family apart at the very seams, and it thrust his mother into a cycle of