Ryan Parker POV
The next day, I had an important meeting with the investors and my so-called mother was also present. She kept on trying to make conversation with me, wanting to talk to me like nothing happened. I know she wanted something and this time it was marriage. Not for love. Not for me. For her status. She had done this before, drugging me and trying to make me sleep with a girl but I threw her out.
She had her perfect puppet picked out, the girl that could control me throughout my life.
Because of her I never believed in love, never wanted it. I have seen my father tear apart, losing his everything, piece by piece until he had nothing left and it was just for one woman. I swore I would never want to make the same mistake.
I was sitting in the boardroom, discussing the proj
