Chapter 12

Since dad died things have become real. While he was alive he was in charge, but part of me had this idea that at the end of the day I was his, that I was just a manager. Now, my father's name was no longer on the papers, but: Bradley Jason Dempsey. Every time I read my name on a document, I felt more pressured.

I spent three days trying to talk to my brother-in-law, which was a lost cause, because he refused to listen to me. Finally, I told him that it was with the necessary urgency to give in to his hatred for me, which worked, since he found me waiting for Nancy to show him off.

"I still don't know what I'm doing here," he grumbled reluctantly, looking at me with all the spite with which you can look at an enemy.

His attitude ever since we met made me wonder why my sister was interested in him; he looked more like a child than a thirty-seven year old adult.

“It's about your brother-in-law Ashton. I bit back the urge to leave him alone with his problem. Dona, she didn't deserve to p