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Nathaniel I knew this would be hard, but I didn’t think it would be this fucking unbearable. There’s always been an emptiness inside me—it comes with all the baggage of being an unwanted child. But I’ve managed it well through the years. Or, I thought I had. Turns out, I was only numbing it with no way to effectively deal with it. Which is why I’m here, in the middle of nowhere. On the mountain. I’ve done a lot of hiking and thinking, mostly about her. The girl I left behind without a word because her dick of a father is testing me. “Stay away for a while and take the time off as an overdue vacation,” he told me that day. “If she’s really serious about you, she won’t move on. But if she does move on, you will fuck off from her life.” He also wants ten percent of my shares, which will give him the majority in W&S. We agreed to never sell our shares to outsiders or each other in order to keep an equal power balance. But he’s using the circumstances to twist my arm. I agreed anyway. Fuck