Liam Stone had negotiated billion-dollar mergers, spoken before thousands of investors, and survived boardroom wars, media scandals, and economic downturns. Yet none of those experiences had prepared him for telling his family about Noah.
Judging by the knot in his stomach as he drove to dinner that evening, introducing his five-year-old son to the Stone family might actually be the most terrifying thing he had ever done.
“Dad?”
Liam glanced at the rearview mirror. “Yeah, buddy?”
Noah sat in the backseat wearing his favorite dinosaur shirt, the one he reserved for special occasions. Apparently, there were different tiers of dinosaur shirts, and tonight called for the highest-ranking one.
“What if they don’t like me?”
The question hit Liam harder than he expected. Noah wasn’t asking a
