Page 62 of Empowered
It was just like her. She was great at anything she tried. She had taken up my offer to be CTO of Sethi Tech and transformed the company. We no longer meddled in illegal business but took a new direction under her guidance. It was her idea to use our expertise in tracking software to help locate women and children who had been abducted for various purposes like human trafficking.
I was still the CEO of the company, but she handled it like she was the boss. She pretty muchwasthe boss. She made it a point to hire more women in the company to increase diversity. She took the reigns and did an even better job than Jai had when he worked there, in my opinion. And I found her way less annoying than my brother.
Jai was happy in his new role as head of the Sethi family business. He had been busy lately, flying from one country to another maintaining order and growing the business. Right now, he was in Russia doing God knows what with God knows who. He would still confide certain things about the business in me, but for the most part, I stayed out of his dealings. It was no longer my place to participate. The entire underworld knew I was out of the game and that Jai was in charge, allowing me to live out the rest of my days in well-deserved peace.
“Are you coming, Daddy?” Dylan asked impatiently as I stood in the doorway.
I strolled to the bed with the book in my hand and passed it to Amelia, giving her a tender kiss on her lips. She hummed a sweet sound against my lips before opening the book. “Where did we leave off yesterday?”
I snuggled into the bed next to my family. Meena pushed herself onto my lap and swung an arm around my neck as she peered at the book, her long hair brushing against my chin. “The part where the cobra is going to attack the family and the mongoose is coming to rescue them.”
“Oh, right,” Amelia said, turning the pages to get to the right page.
“I think the snake is going to win!” exclaimed Dylan from his spot on Amelia’s lap, as if the ending would have changed after reading this book for the fiftieth time.
“Me too,” Meena agreed. “Snakes are fast and can bite skin so hard until you die!” I should have been more worried with how she relished in pain and death. I’d need to keep one eye on her when she was older. The need for destruction obviously ran deep in her blood just like it did in mine.
“Who do you think will win, Daddy?” Dylan asked, his eyes wide and ready to hang on my every word as he always did when I spoke.
I glanced at Amelia, who was smiling at me with an expression so full of love. My heart was complete because of her. I grinned back at her sensing she already knew my answer. “The mongoose always wins.”
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