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Oh great, that's all | need this week! Talk about Mondayitis. | walk past the magazine stand on the street near
our office building and guess who's on the front cover of all the gossip magazines. Jayden Brennan.
Who even still reads this crap? But marketing is my job and | need to get on top of it. Not hard to see I've had
stoff. | grab a couple and go pay for them.
Then | do a search on my socials.
Jayden Brennan's Ex-wife hides his child
Serious health issues for first born Brennan heir
Has Jayden Brennan lost his killer CEO edge
Rinse and repeat.
Where do they get their information? | mean, they aren't exactly wrong, but how do they know all this? | think we
have a rat. Judy? Ashlyn?
Hell, it could be anyone looking to make a quick buck. But not just anyone knows about Abby's paternity. Could
be guessing just for a headline | suppose.
| need to study the stories and try to pinpoint if they are speculating or not.
The Brennan empire is big news. All publicity is good publicity. | have to make it so. | think it's tJayden did a
happy family interview or something similar. | sigh. Happy families. What a dream!
Phillip had apologized for his behavior on Friday night after our party drinks. In fact, he says he can't really
remember everything. He's also confessed he is an alcoholic.
But, he'd stopped going to meetings. He thought he had a handle on it and was fine. | think this may be why he's
estranged from his family.
He swears he'll never drink again and he's not only going to go back to meetings, he's going to set up a charity
funding help around recovering addicts. He was so sorry. But when you get scared like that, sorry don't cut it. |
need tto grow trust for him again.
It really burst our bubble. We've been business partners for over three years. You think you know someone. |
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtguess | should have asked more questions from the start.
But | wasn't exactly a shining beacon of stability back then. | just wanted things to be okay and my life to settle
down for the baby.
Phillip was that stability, | see that now. | need to at least give him a chance. Later we'll sit and have a real
conversation about his addiction and how it's affected his past.
As for the engagement well, | may take a step back from that. Not just because of Phillip doing what he did.
That kiss with Jayden. | mean, wow. | think | can put it down to the high emotions and probably his memory
coming back. But it also brought back tojust how deep our passion for each other ran. Still
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runs, obviously. Stupid ofto think I could hide from that.
You cannot run away from yourself.
I walk into work and push the elevator button to the top floor. Board meeting day. I'm not too worried. | have the
proof that marketing will easily begin to rake the money back in. Polishing the turd that is the Brennans may
prove harder but I'll get there.
Sell ice to the Eskimos, no problem. But these latest headlines won't help my cause. Firstly, because I'm trying to
keep the Brennan nlooking good and secondly because I'm a direct reason there are headlines. | can't
distance him from the problem, so we need to get creative.
We also need to quell any expectation of us getting back together. So it looks like his new marriage will need to
be announced. Hopefully Ashlyn had calmed since Friday night.
| took the blbecause it just makes it easier. She already seesas the enemy. If she gives Jayden a hard
the will divorce her. Then | have that to smooth over in the media.
| want to keep this new job so badly, to prove | can do it and set Abby up with enough funds for her future. |
guess she'll always have the Brennan fortune now. She doesn't needto earn her money.
That thought hitshard. Now she's been accepted as a Brennan, the only person in the way of that being a
happy family is me. In Judy's mind anyway. | better watch my back even more.
The elevator pings and | step out into the boardroom. Looks like everyone is here and the room is buzzing, | see
Lance and walk over to him. "Hey, what's going on in here? It's never this energetic." "Apparently, Brennan
Industries has been hit by a hostile takeover. On the weekend."
"What!?"
Lance nods and looks serious. "Enough shareholders sold out to an unknown entity that has now acquired a
controlling majority."
"How does this even happen?"
"It happens. But we didn't see this coming. That's what bothers me. No one is safe. Not even Jayden."
"You mean, Brennan Industries might not be under Brennan ownership anymore?"
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