ROSALINE
I stared long and hard at the paper, even flipping it to the back to see if there'd been a mistake in whom it was assigned to. Julie's position in the company was the executive manager. It was a very important post that I felt so uneasy taking over.
After all these years, he was simply giving it to me? I couldn't quite wrap my head around it. I looked up at both of them, reading the proud look on their faces. I didn't even care to see if Gerald was doing the same doting that they were. It was beginning to disgust me thoroughly.
I exhaled deeply, folding the paper and thrusting it back into the envelope. "I can't accept this," I said, lunging it back at my father. "Thank you for being considerate enough to think I deserve this position, but I do not want it."
His face fell. Bot
