Love Therapy (Stanton Falls #2) by Kaci Hart Read Free Book Online Page B

    “That’s what I thought
at first.  She even singled out Aaron working for me as an example of how
I use money to keep friends.  I thought it was completely ludicrous until
I thought more about it and I’ve found myself thinking that maybe she is right dad.”

 
    His father waived off
the drink he was being offered.

 
    “Your mother only lets
me have one of those a day now so I’m saving it for later.”

 
    “Wow dad, you’re truly
whipped aren’t you?”

 
    “I may be but sometimes
giving in on those really unimportant things is what makes a marriage work.
 Now back to you son.  Sit down.  You are a good young man.
 Listen, you could have slacked off after school but you didn’t.  You
know we’ve got enough money where you didn’t have to do a thing for the rest of
your life and you’d still have money from us to give your kids.  But you
didn’t sit on that.  You decided to start your own business.  And why
did you do that?”

 
    “I wanted to have
something of my own.  Something that I did myself.”

 
    “That may be the reason
you tell everyone, but those of us that know you know the real reason you did
that was because of your friend.  He was in a bad place and you started
that business and gave him a key role to help him get through that time.
 You didn’t do that for you.  You did that for him.  Your
friend.”

 
    Nick was taken aback
that anyone else would have figured that out.

 
    “Nicholas, you don’t use
your money to make or keep friends.  If anything, you of all the rich kids
I knew, never used money in that way.  Yes, you did grow up with money but
that isn’t your fault and it isn’t a bad thing either.  You have no qualms
spending money on people, that is true but it doesn’t make you shallow.
 Money is something that you have and you aren’t stingy with it.
 It’s just a way you show appreciation and there is nothing wrong with
that.  Having said that, only you and God know if you really do have an
ulterior motive when you do these things but if you know yourself as well as I
do, then you know you don’t.”

 
    “Maybe you’re right.
 You sure know how to break things down in a different light.”

 
    “Well, I was an attorney
before I started my business son.  Kind of comes with the territory.
 Now you don’t go letting some PHD, MD, BA or any other combination of
letters bend your truth.”

 
    “Thanks dad.  I
guess it was worth it to suffer through a few hours of the world’s most boring
sport to get your advice.”

 
    His father laughed at
him, before hitting the play button again.  

 
    “Wisdom has a cost my
boy.  You know what Nick.  I’m going to go ahead and have that cola now.
 I earned it just now.”

 
    Nick got the drink,
handed it to his father and sat back down as his father was into the game
again.  What he had said made sense to him and he was glad for the
advice.   Yet he was still bothered by
what Donna had said.  That she had seen him in that way.  The truth
of the matter was that he really shouldn’t even care what she thought of him.
 She was just a counselor on staff, not someone he needed to impress in
any way.

 
    She doesn’t know me from
Adam and she made that judgement about me in less than a minute.  She
doesn’t know the first thing about me.

 
    He knew all of that and
he was still carried away that she saw him in that light.  He realized
that he only cared because he liked her.  Most people saying that to him
would have made him laugh.  There was only be a few people in the world
that bothered him like that at all and she was one of them it seemed.  He
never realized that he liked her that much.  He’d always had a thing for
her for as long as he had known her and he wanted her to see the best in him.
 Her words told him a truth that she just saw him as some rich guy with
money to buy people.  She really didn’t understand him at all and as it
turned out,