Walk and Talk Part I
Lucky Draw
“Gulliver, your ego is astounding.” She grimaced at him.
“Yeah but look around. I have the best family, the best kid, the best wife,” he lifted her hand to kiss her fingers. “The best gets the best.”
“The best is about to get a kick in the backside.” She snorted.
“Grandfather,” Gulliver called out. “Who is your favorite grandson?”
“You.” He didn’t even hesitate to answer and then he looked at January with a wide grin, “because he controls our finances and tripled my fortune last year alone. Glenn, are your feelings hurt?”
“Nope. He’s my favorite too. Made me a billionaire last year. I finally crossed the threshold last year. Sorry Thisbe.”
“I’m not sorry,” Thisbe called out. “He’s my favorite sibli
He backed my shop and paid completely for the second shop I opened in London last year.”
“See? The favorite.”
“You buy their affection!” she accused with wide eyes.
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display of animals.
“I mean, I already held my master’s in engineering. I needed to do something to keep me busy. I got my PhD.”
“You have your doctorate?”
“Yes. I also own forty percent stake in Thisbe’s fashion house and forty percent in Glenn’s business.”
“What does he do? I thought he worked for your father.”
“He and my father butted heads several years back over Mitsos actually. My father was refusing to acknowledge Mitsos without DNA proof, but Glenn knew in his heart they were blood. However, as my brother pointed out to my father, if they weren’t, he would adopt Mitsos as his own because his mother trusted Glenn with him because she was failing as a parent. That kind of trust from a woman he had a very short relationship with meant a lot to him. My father thought he was being taken for a fool.”
“Your father was trying to protect Glenn’s heart.”
“He was but Glenn had pointed out blood or not, he was 3/5
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ňamed on the birth certificate as Mitsos‘ father, and he was
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going to raise him. Glenn was angry that Dad didn’t simply have his back.”
“What did you do?” she asked quietly.
“I was in England for a business meeting. Glenn showed up at my condo in London with this bawling squawking baby of only a couple of months old, wide–eyed, and terrified. He said Mitsos mother had named him on the birth certificate and said
she didn’t want to be a mother and had never wanted to be a
mother. She simply put him in his hands and walked away. In two hours, we had a nursery set up, a nanny to teach us both how to change nappies and do bottles and I had my brother’s back.” Gulliver was staring at his brother’s back. “He was lost for a long time before Mitsos came along. Mitsos grounded him, gave him purpose other than doing whatever our father ordered him to do. Glenn would do anything I asked him and there would be no hesitation. He’s not only my brother but he is my best friend even more than Ford but don’t tell Ford that.” He gave a half grin. “So, when he came to me and needed my help, I did what a big brother is supposed to do. I helped. helped him walk floors with a colicky baby. Learning what colic was,” he gave a shake of his head, “was a battle in itself. Mitsos we learned later was allergic to the first formula we were trying and it was the one his mother used. I can’t help but wonder if she’d known why the baby cried all the time if she might have stayed.”
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“Her family saw Glenn’s name on the birth certificate and immediately saw a money tree. Glenn ended up in court for custody and exposed a lot of their sins and bad habits. Gambling debts, drugs, alcohol, and a few others and proved he was the better choice for Mitsos. He ended up with full custody without needing to provide any kind of access to them. She can see Mitsos so long as she gives advance warning, but she cannot call Mitsos or reach out to him directly without permission. That was a change which happened around the time he was four. Mitsos was stressed all the time, and nobody could figure out why. Turned out during one supervised visit while he’d been showing her something on his tablet she found a way to open a messaging app so she could call him when she wanted.”
“Was that a bad thing?”
“It is when she was calling him wasted drunk and telling her that Glenn stole him from her and wouldn’t give her money, so she was starving and had no place to live.”
