Chapter 316 - Trouble just got worse (4)

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19 April, Gu Group Headquarters and Steven's apartment, City K

As the call ended, the two me sitting in the office looked at each other.

Taking a breath, Kevin said "Business is easy, but children are not."

Laughing, the immediate response was "True. If we were having this conversation even five years ago, I would have told you Steven would have told me where to go as he hated me. It took us time to repair the relationship because he blamed me for how everything went down when my marriage went to hell. But we have come a long way. We both know that we will never have the same relationship we had when he was young but we are in a good space. He will come to his own decision but not blame me."

"I sense a but there…"

"The issue, and you have to realise it, is Abigail. She is only eighteen and you are taking the same path that you did with Monica, forcing her into a marriage. Yes, the circ.u.mstances are different. Monica was because you wanted to get her away from what you perceived as a poor influence but who has, from what I understand made a wonderful career for himself in the military. With Abigail, you are wanting her to marry to protect her inheritance from her mother who is out to get at you for the simple reason that she was the last of her children that stood up to her but has acted to ensure her behaviour is called."

Kevin Mo, sat back for a few seconds before saying "You know how to pull punches."

"Steven knows me, and I will accept whatever decision he makes. However, are you certain that Abigail will know that? And can you accept if she refuses? Will it hurt your relationship with her? Those are questions only you can answer."

"Damn it you want to make it hard for me?"

"Seriously what is your answer?"

"Answer? I just hope she understands that I love her. That is something that I should have told her repeatedly told her and failed to and I should have protected her, which I failed to do."

"When Steven calls back, I believe Abigail will be with him and they give us their answer, before they say anything, you need to tell her that. She needs to understand that you will accept every decision she makes." Seeing a nod from across the desk he continued "Kevin, let us leave those matters aside. We need to focus on what originally was the reason for this meeting. The construction contract for the new hospital your company is spearheading."

"You are good at changing the topic."

"Why torture ourselves. We simply needed to wait for the children to call us and just accept their decision."

Meanwhile in Steven's apartment he placed his coffee cup in the dishwasher steadying himself for the conversation he was about to help. He hoped that the outcome was something that he could live with.

Rather than delaying the inevitable he moved to the guest room and knocked on the door. As he opened it, he said "Abigail we need to talk."

As he fully opened the door, Abigail wrapped in a towel walked out of the ensuite bathroom. Stunned Steven stood there as Abigail grabbed the towel and said "Do you not knock"

Noticing that she was blushing Steven said "Well I did knock, but…"

"So, you should have waited until I responded."

Stopping himself from shaking his head Steven said "I just had a conversation with our fathers, and we need to talk urgently. I will wait for you in the lounge." With that Steven turned and walked out shutting the door behind him. As it closed the door, he was so embarrassed walking in on Abigail like that but what was even more embarrassing was he had reacted to seeing Abigail like that. If agreed to a marriage, long term hiding a reaction like that would become difficult.

He quickly moved to his suite and into the bedroom, before heading to the ensuite, making sure the doors were shut behind him and loosening his pants. In attempting to relieve his e*rection he grabbed his p*nis and started to imagine Sally. Unlike the past imagining Sally was not enough to relieve his e*rection that he had.

That stunned Steven. Even if he woke with a e*rection in the past, picturing Sally was always enough to enable him to relieve it. Did Matthew's words last week finally sink in. Sally was unattainable and he needed to move on from that, despite the years of wanting her it always worked. Steven stopped and thought about what he had just walked in on, and he could feel himself becoming harder. Despite knowing it was inappropriate in all the circ.u.mstances of the week, touching himself and imagining what could have happened if he did not have a conscious Steven quickly was able to relieve himself.

After tidying himself back up, Steven knew that the conversation he was about to have would become difficult.

As he sat down on a chair, Abigail walked out of the guest room, so Steven said, "Abigail we need to talk?"

"Steven about before…"

"Abigail, I had a teleconference with our father's, and something came up…"

"Related to my mother?"

"It does. You know the trust your father set up…"

"The one that gives them an income to live on, in addition to the salary dad gets from the company and when they die will give the assets to my siblings and I."

"That one. Cutting a long story short, she has a move to get just about everything from it now and in the future. However, there is a way around it, because of the terms of the trust. But, let me make it clear that I am only willing to consider the option as there is not willing to let your mother win and victimise you further."

Abigail, paused looking at Steven wondering what this was about before saying "What?"

"Marriage."

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