Chapter 188. Unbendable

“Listen, Adam.” His father spoke once again, “You have to understand the gravity of the situation. Our family’s wealth, our legacy—it is all at stake here. We cannot afford to lose everything we have worked so hard to build. We have been hanging in desperation since you attained 28 years, and you still were fooling around when you were supposed to have a wife. Now we are in a very tight spot.”

Adam was taken aback. He didn’t know that. He had not heard of such. Were they insinuating that he was supposed to have gotten a wife at the age of twenty-eight? “What are you talking about? I thought… I thought all along it was about you forming a merger with the De Mario’s and helping them expand the business.” He asked.

His mother shook her head. “How would you have known? You are practically the black sheep of the family. The only child yet you never cared,” her voice was filled with anger.

“You stopped caring first. You never cared about me, mother. So don’t you start bl