Chapter Seventy Six

Justin’s POV

“If it isn’t the man of the hour. The one that deserves all praises.” Aiden said as he approached me, stretching his hand out for a handshake. My jaw clenched together as I slowly raised my hand and accepted his handshake. If it weren’t for the many people watching in the room, I wouldn’t have accepted it. Something about the guy’s presence pisses me off. I don’t care if he wasn’t Zion, I was always going to treat him like the trash Zion was.

“Congratulations.” He said, but it sounded nothing genuine. It sounded very different from the congratulatory words I’d been told by others all day. It sounded as if he was mocking me. But well, jokes on him ‘cause I could make or break him now.

When I first walked into the conference meeting that morning and saw him amongst the investors that had been requesting a meeting with me for the past thirteen months, I’d been so pissed that I wanted to reject their proposal without even hearing what it was. But then something stopped me f