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Kent smirks, glad to see his words have found their mark. “If you’re not going to keep the girl happy in our house, then…” he waves a casual hand in front of him, as if the solution is obvious.
“I’m happy to step in.”
Daniel snaps his mouth shut, glaring at his father.
“Fine,” Daniel grinds out, angry to have been put in his place. “But you back off and leave this to me.”
Kent shrugs, pretending he’s happy to do it. But, ultimately, he knows that Daniel will fail at this task – it’s not really in him to keep a woman happy. And, deep down, Kent knows that he wants to be
the one to do it.
“How are plans going for the wedding?” Daniel asks, rueful.
Kent raises an eyebrow at this. “Finally curious about your own wedding, then? Frankly, it’s bizarre that two such young people – people in love at that have never asked any questions about the plans. The location. The ceremony. The honeymoon.”
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Daniel wrinkles his nose a little at this. “You planned our honeymoon for us?” he asks, a little appalled.
“Two weeks in Italy,” Kent says softly. “You’re going to have a
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Daniel scowls, knowing then that he’s been beat. His father was right, of course – he had been neglecting the girl.
“The wedding is a month away,” Kent continues, smirking a little at the look of defeat on his son’s face. “You still have time to take a larger role in convincing her that loyalty to the Lippert family is
her best choice.”
“Fine,” Daniel snaps, looking his father in the eye. “I’ll do it. Can you…” He hesitates, then, realizing he was just about to ask his dad to arrange dinner out with Fay tonight, to use his connections to get a last–minute table for him somewhere nice.
“Yes?” Kent asks, still smirking. “Can I…”
“Nevermind,” Daniel says, turning away from him. He can do this
himself.
“Have a nice night,” Kent calls after his son as he walks out of the office. Kent’s glad, in the end. It’s about time Daniel was shamed into taking on some responsibility. Even if that responsibility was just making his damn girlfriend happy. Kent rolls his eyes at this thought. You wouldn’t think that he’d have to work so hard to get
Daniel to do that.
If he were in his place…
Well. Kent turns away from the thought, not needing to go there
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right now.
But it nags at him, pulling his mind away from his work.
Because…
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Well, damnit, why didn’t Daniel work harder to keep her happy?
And what was going to happen when Daniel lost interest in it, as he certainly would, and let her attention wander again. If Daniel
wasn’t the right man for the job, who the hell was?
Kent instantly knows what the answer to that question is: him. He’s the one who wants Fay in his back pocket. He wanted her for the leverage she represented to Alden and because…well. Because he wanted her. But did he really need Daniel to play the
middle man in this?
Impulsively, Kent gets up from his chair and leaves his office, jogging up the stairs to Fay’s room. As he walks to her door he finds it open. He pauses there silently, watching her sort through her closet, considering a choice between dresses.
“Where are you going?” Kent asks, and he takes a visceral little pleasure when he sees her jump, startled, and look around at him with those wide blue eyes.
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