Odd Stranger

HENLEY

Meetings back to back, it can be tiring.

I don't know which is more tiring.

Online meetings or physical meetings.

My eyebrows rise and fall in a quick move, my eyes feeling like lead.

Both type of meetings are tiring, that's for sure. Especially when you have to attend several in a day on two hours of sleep.

I really do need to sleep properly.

But I have to keep it up until I achieve my goal.

Defeating my brother and Mother in the business world.

Mostly mother because, come on, she basically runs the company through her puppets Jason and Father.

Mother would prefer I kiss Jason's ass and lick his balls at his beck and call.

No can do.

Not after she's told me several times that I am a nobody. Well, I'm someone now mother, how about that?

It's not a usual thing for one's mother to hate her child but that's what fate cursed me with. I feel nothing for her.

I heave a sigh.

Their surprise when they found out I carved a path for myself outside of MERC still remains a strong m