I texted him to check that he’d arrived safely, hoping that it would spark a conversation. It didn’t.I’d met with my legal team on the Monday morning, and they’d told me the news I didn’t want to hear. If my mother chose to sign over her voting rights to Gavin for whatever reason, he would have the power to remove me as the head of the company if he wanted to. In order to stop this from happening, I needed to make sure my mother didn’t give Gavin any power within Jacobs Publishing.But before I confronted her with my doubts about her new husband, I needed proof.To get that proof, I needed to talk to the man who had plagued my thoughts since the moment I met him.Tuesday, I’d sent Aiden a text and got no reply—again. I knew what I had to do. It was exactly what he’d told me. In order to get Barrett out of my system, I had to confront him. I needed to find out exactly what had happened between us and why I was inadvertently involved in whatever scandal he was investigating.
