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Chapter 139
Leo couldn’t get through to Alicia.
He turned to his three sons. “Find a way to get in touch with her.”
“I need to have a serious talk with her and find out why she’s doing this.”
Kevin and his brothers were at their wits’ end.
If they could get in touch with Alicia, they would’ve done it already.
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Suddenly, Caleb turned to Kevin. “Kevin, Alicia switched to Lucent Media, and Jason Farrell is her new agent now.
“He must know how to reach her.”
Caleb didn’t have Jason’s contact info.
Besides, he and Jason had never gotten along back in school, so there was no way he’d reach out to him.
But Kevin, on the surface, didn’t have any issues with Jason.
Kevin nodded. “Alright, I’ll try reaching out to Jason.”
He’d exchanged numbers with Jason at a business conference once.
At Alicia’s home.
Jason’s phone rang.
He glanced at the caller ID but didn’t pick up right away.
Instead, he turned to Alicia. “It’s Kevin calling you.”
Alicia wasn’t surprised. She figured the old man would be trying to track her down for
answers.
But she didn’t feel like talking to him.
She said, “Send him that video of me talking to Diana and the rest from the other day.
“And tell him that’s the reason I’m done with them.”
After chatting with Diana and the others, she’d asked Jason to get the surveillance footage from the production team and cut out that segment,
‘I knew they’d pull something like this,’ Alicia thought, unfazed.
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Jason nodded. “Alright, I’ll send it.”
He picked up the call. “Kevin, what’s up?”
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Kevin didn’t waste any time. “Jason, I need to reach Alicia ASAP. Could you give me her number?”
Jason was straightforward. “No can do. She’s dropped her old number for good-she doesn’t want to talk to any of you anymore.”
Kevin felt pretty awful inside. “Does she see us as monsters or something?”
Jason replied, “No, not monsters. She just gets fed up seeing you all.”
Kevin was speechless. ‘Honestly, that answer was worse than saying nothing,’ he thought..
“Could you let her know? Just tell her Dad wants to see her
“Or maybe she could just give him a call and have a quick chat.”
Jason replied, “What’s there to talk about? You want to ask her why she’s breaking things off for good?”
Kevin frowned. “Yeah, it’s not like things were ever that bad between us. I just don’t get why she’d want to shut us out completely.”
Jason replied, “If you still have no clue why she wants to cut you off, it just means you never
bothered to really care about her.
“So why keep pestering her?”
Kevin looked upset. “She’s our sister. Of course we care about her!”
Jason scoffed. “Put me on speaker. I’ll tell you exactly why.”
Kevin covered the phone and glanced at his dad for the go-ahead.
His dad nodded, so Kevin switched to speakerphone. “Go ahead.”
Jason’s voice cut through the room, sharp and direct. “Have any of you ever taken the time to get her a real gift, even once?
“Did any of you ever bring her anything back from abroad, just for her?
“Did
you ever give her pocket money, or make sure she had what she needed-food, clothes, anything?
“Her favorite flowers get pulled out, her stuff gets taken from her, just like that.
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“But if any of you felt sick, she’d put together herbal meals or make medicinal incense for
you.
“Where were you when she was in the hospital?
“She doesn’t break down in tears or act like she can’t live without you, but that doesn’t mean
she doesn’t need love or care.
“When you wanted her, she was your daughter, your sister. When you didn’t, it was suddenly the stepdaughter and stepsister who was the most considerate one.
“Do you even realize how you treat her compared to Nicole? Seriously, don’t you see the difference?
“And most importantly-do you really think things are just the way you see them?
“You never actually stop to figure out who’s really in the wrong or who’s just faking it. You just try to calm one person down and push the other aside to keep the peace, then act like the family’s all good.
“There are things you could’ve figured out easily if you’d just bothered to look into it, but you never even cared enough to try.
“Like, why Alicia got trashed all over the internet and everyone was hating on her.
“Or how her agent totally betrayed her. You’re her family-when your daughter, your sister,
gets bullied, did you ever think about helping her out?
“Whenever any of you ran into trouble, she was always the first to step up and make things right for you.
“Don’t give me that ‘we were just against Alicia joining showbiz’ excuse.
“But when Nicole wanted in, you didn’t just let her-you gave her everything, all the support, all the resources.
“Hammond Group hands all the endorsements to Nicole. Did you ever once consider Alicia?
“And now Delaney Group is talking endorsements with Nicole too. The real joke is, those perfumes everyone loves? Alicia’s mom made them.
“And when Alicia was getting trashed online, you really think Nicole’s totally innocent? You honestly believe she had nothing to do with it?
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