Kylie Bray (Love, Hate and Billions) novel Chapter 14

I tried talking to her but the woman insisted it wasn't my fault. I was young, teenagers always did dumb shit, was the way she saw it.

The fact that my brother is even calling me after I ripped his heart from him means one thing. Whatever it is has to be life or death.

Ever heard someone say a day can change your whole life? For me, for my family we don't require an entire day, we just have to answer a phone call and that takes seconds.

“Jace is missing, David and I are heading to Liston Hills now, get Diamond, she's needed. Kevin and Storm will be joining you two. I have the jet waiting at the University you got twenty minutes.”

The phone goes dead, which is no surprise there, Michael hates idle chit chat.

Growing up around him I got used to what other people considered 'not normal' behavior. They weren't lying when they said it, they weren't talking smack when they said he was rude either.

But that was, and will always be Michael Stone. He isn't a peoples person, he lives to make the world a better place. His drive to succeed in doing that has always been at full capacity.

Michael once said that people wasted too much time thinking about doing something instead of just doing it.

Michael believes in positive time consumption, he is a genius just like Diamond but different.

His outlook on life is not appreciated. He knows when to hold his tongue when to pretend and lie but most of the time he just doesn't care.

One time I was sitting by his desk waiting for him to finish off his work and take me for tacos when he got up and came to see what I was doing.

I told him I was watching inspirational videos because they made me feel good. He took my laptop away from me and set it down on a pile of papers on his desk.

I recall thinking how much trouble could a sixteen-year-old me get into if he knew I was watching porn and the only inspiration I was getting was that I needed more yoga classes.