A Billion Dollars

Alex

Damion looked up at me and smiled. I held up the sodas as I walked toward him. The phone in my back pocket vibrated against my ass. I pulled it out and saw it was Wayne. “I need to take this. I’ll be outside.” I walked out of the store and answered my phone. “Hello, Wayne.”

“Hello yourself. How are you?”

“I’m good.”

“How are Oliver and Damion?” he asked.

I turned to look through the window and saw them both laughing about something. “They are doing very well. Oliver is enjoying his time at day camp. It works out great. Oliver gets to hang out with other kids and it allows us to get some work done on the farm.”

“Why don’t you hire a team to take care of that?” he suggested.

I scoffed. “Because that is expensive and unnecessary.”

He laughed. “When you have that much money, you don’t need to worry about stuff like that. Enjoy your time together.”

I frowned, wondering if Wayne was losing his faculties. He’d said a few odd things during our visit, and just now, he wasn’t making any se