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KADENA lot of people thought I hadn’t worked hard to get to where I was. It’s your daddy’s business, they said. Of course he’s gonna give you a good spot.If I had a dollar for every time I heard those words, I’d have been even richer than I already was.What those people didn’t know was my dad. If they’d ever met him, they’d know that my being his son meant I had to bust my ass twice as hard to get the job I had.Dad supported a lot of different charity causes, but I wasn’t one of them. I worked twice as hard and got half of the credit, if I got any at all.To be fair, I didn’t need his credit or approval. My track record spoke for itself. When I played, I played hard, but when I worked, I worked harder. Sunday night with Ember was the first time I mixed those two things.Kissing her was purely about me surrendering to mind-numbing lust. The kind of lust that made you forget your own name, or in my case, made me forget my best friend’s name.Ryan finding out about what happened didn
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