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office—hands-on with our projects.
    My cell phone vibrated inside my suit-jacket pocket. I
took my time retrieving it, certain it wasn’t work related. No one had my cell
number except those I actually enjoyed speaking to on a personal level, which
left very few numbers saved in my contacts.
    It was my father, which wasn’t too surprising; the older
I got, the closer we became. Despite my parents’ divorce shortly after Julia
and Jax were born, my father was supportive to my mother and us as a family
unit. I decided I’d call him back over the weekend and tucked my phone back in
my pocket.
    I wondered what advice he’d given Julia, or whether he
knew about her Harmony plan. It was probably the reason for the call, and I
knew exactly what he’d tell me: to let her make her own decisions. He was a hard
man in business and steadfast in his beliefs about raising us, but he was
always there when in need.
    However, from the time we were children, he'd made it abundantly
clear that he was done funding our education after high school. Our options
were to earn scholarships or pay our own way. I’d already explained Julia’s
ill-advised decision to Lawrence, and he’d agreed to offer her no assistance.
That left our obstinate little sister with no choice but to accept defeat.
    “Mr. West,” a voice hummed from the intercom on my desk.
It was my secretary, Maria, breaking through my musings.
    “Yes,” I answered, pulling my thoughts back to the
present. I twisted my chair around, returning to the numbers I’d been running
on the computer.
    “Your four o’clock called to say he’d be late.”
    My fingers stilled on the keyboard. Who would that be? I
glanced over the schedule sitting to my left and at the name I’d jotted down,
despite Lawrence’s protest.
    Damn it, Jax . He’d seemed interested enough when I
told him I’d penciled him in for an interview. I was confident I could convince
him to grow up; he listened to no one else, and needed to realize that with
high school ending, a real job where he had a chance to grow within a company
was the next step, since college was off his radar.
    I held down the intercom button. “Reschedule it.” I
turned my attention back to the computer screen.
    “Yes, sir.”
    Almost instantly, Maria’s voice was back. “Um, excuse me
sir, but uh…Mr. Jackson West has asked me to tell you he’d be here in five
minutes and that a new appointment wouldn’t work for his schedule.” Her timid
voice cracked with nerves.
    A small smile tugged at my lips. His schedule? I fought
back a chuckle. As pleased as I was with his tenacity that matched his twin’s, arriving
late to his first job interview was unacceptable. It was in his best interest
that I played the hard ass.
    I’d been too easy on him the past couple years, watching
him act out and not doing a thing to stop it. He was the only one in the family
having any real fun, and I didn’t want that to end too soon for him. However,
his time to better his own future passed when he’d made no moves to do so. I
had to deliver a dose of reality, whether he liked it or not.
    “Reschedule him, Maria. If he has a problem with it,
direct his call to me.”
    “Right away, sir.”
    I sat back in my chair with my elbow resting on the arm
and cupped my chin, waiting for the call. Time ticked by—nothing. There was no
way Jax would simply back down; I’d taught him better than that, which was why
I wasn’t startled when my office door flew open a few minutes later.
    Jax entered, dressed impeccably in what I was certain was
one of my tailored suits. It fit him well. My brother spent most of his time
either in the gym or cozying up with pretty little bookworms he could
manipulate into keeping up his grades. He thought he had it made, but that was
high school. He’d be in for a rude awakening when our father cut him off at
graduation.
    I straightened my posture, squared my shoulders, and pulled
on a stern expression, ready to hear his