Grandparents Demand Their Daughter Surrender Her Company Shares—Then the Billionaire They Called Her Baby’s Father Walks Into the Hospital.
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Chapter 22 - MY MOTHER HOLDS KIRKIt happened when he was four months old.
I did not plan it.
Mom came to my house for a facilitated family conversation.
Dad refused to attend.
She sat on the sofa.
Kirk woke.
He cried.
I picked him up.
Mom stared.
Then said:
“May I?”
I almost said no.
Maybe I wanted to.
Then I asked:
“Do you understand why I might?”
“Yes.”
“What did you call him?”
Her eyes closed.
“Fatherless.”
“Was he?”
“No.”
“Would it matter if Alistair had disappeared tomorrow?”
She looked confused.
I continued:
“Would Kirk be less worthy if his father abandoned him?”
“No.”
“Then say what you did wrong.”
She took a long breath.
“I used his parentage to punish you.”
Closer.
“And?”
“I made affection conditional.”
Yes.
I handed him over.
She cried when he grabbed her necklace.
May you like
I did not comfort her.
The moment belonged to Kirk.
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Chapter 23 - MY FATHER RESIGNSDad resigned as CEO nine months after Kirk’s birth.
Chapter 24 - ALISTAIR AND MEWe did not get married because a baby squeezed his finger in a hospital.
Chapter 25 - THE SHARE LAWSUIT THAT DIDN’T HAPPENMy parents’ attorneys threatened litigation over the hospital documents.
Chapter 26 - THE VOTE I CAST MYSELFEighteen months after Kirk’s birth, Whitaker Medical held its annual shareholder meeting.
Chapter 27 - The EndTwo years after my parents dropped the transfer folder onto my hospital blanket, Kirk learned the word mine.
