If someone had told Adrian Gray twenty years ago that the greatest rivalry of his life would not be with another CEO…
Not with a competitor.
Not with the board.
Not with the media.
But with his own son…
He would have laughed in their face.
Now?
He wasn’t laughing anymore.
Well…
Not entirely.
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Lucas was almost eighteen.
Eighteen.
Adrian still couldn’t believe it.
Where had the years gone?
The little boy who had once crawled into their bed with a blanket dragging behind him had somehow become a young man.
Tall.
Broad-shouldered.
Confident.
The image of an Alpha.
He had Adrian’s eyes.
Jude’s smile.
And a heart that somehow managed to love his father with an intensity that hadn’t faded with age.
If anything…
It had only grown.
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Two weeks ago…
Lucas had graduated as
