Chapter 19

"Delancy," The hairs on my skin rose when he said my name. I paled and stared at him dumbfounded but he beamed at me. "I'm not judging you or anything, we all do things for the stuff we want. I'm sure you and I aren't that much different from each other."

He pulled my hand and brought me even closer to him, his strong, expensive cologne almost choking me.

"How do you know?" I muttered, still heavily shocked and confused.

Didn't Kerrick say no one else besides us and our fathers knew?

Stephen stared contemplatively at me as if he wasn't understanding what I was asking.

"I'm very close to Mr. Matthau." He simply said.

"Close?"

"Yes, very close. I'm one of his most trusted employees and he even treats me like his son."

"His son? Kerrick is his son! How can you stand in front of me talking ​this rubbish?"

"Calm down, I didn't mean it in an offensive way." He said laughing, obviously trying to stir up my emotions. "Though if you do ask anyone here, they would say your father-in-law favors