Chapter 1 #3
“It stipulates that a husband would want you to be at home and have babies, something that he didn’t care for you to do.
However, since you were married before he died and didn’t tell you the stipulation of the will, then that’s all gone.
He knew you were married and didn’t take it into consideration that you were to divorce him before he died.
Knowing the man the way that I do, I’m sure that he would have gotten around to it sooner rather than later. ”
“He was a tyrant.” No one agreed nor disagreed with her. “I’m willing to work for the company for a year. After that, I’m going to decide what to do with the rest of it. I might sell it.”
“He puts in there that you can’t, but once you work your year then you’ve taken care of all his terms.” She asked him what he meant. “It means that once you work the year, the terms of the will have been met and you are free to do what you want with it. With all of it.”
“That’s all I have to do is work for a year at a business that I don’t understand.
” He said that there would be people around to help her.
“I should hope so. I’ve never run a business in my life.
And that’s all I have to do is show a profit in the first quarter and work out the year, and then I get all the money?
I know that sounds greedy, but he was a right bastard in his last days, and I should get something to compensate me for having to put up with him. ”
“You should have been in our shoes, is all I can tell you.” She told them that she was sorry, and Devlin agreed with her.
After going over the paperwork, she was to get a good deal of money from the estate to keep her in pretty things.
While he didn’t know what that meant, he had a feeling that it was bribery on his part to make her feel like she was getting something for nothing.
Since the business was doing so well right now, he didn’t see any problem with her making a profit during the first quarter.
It sounded to him like the attorneys for the will had taken some liberties with the will to help Sen out.
He might well have done the same thing, knowing the way that Howard had treated everyone that he came in contact with.
Devlin made notes on what the paperwork meant to Sen and Ivan.
He could see that there were places that were going to be hers that came with the estate, and he was thinking that Sen and Ivan would never need money again.
Not even if they both lived to be a hundred years old, they’d never be able to spend the money that was coming to them, not to mention the money from the estate of her aunt and uncle.
It took them the next three hours to get things in order.
Sen would start working as soon as she gave her two weeks’ notice at the clerk’s office, and that would start her working for the firm.
She said that she was going to ask Brandy for help too, and he thought that would be the smartest move she’d ever made.
There was no telling how many enemies she was going to run into at the firm simply because Howard had been such a bastard, but she’d have at least someone on her side and be able to do what needed to be done.
They were provided lunch when it was time, and he enjoyed talking to the other attorneys.
Devlin might well have enjoyed working for them had he been looking for a job that would keep him out of working for Brandy and Lica.
He thought that they’d done a good job of helping Sen out, and they seemed to not care at all if there was going to be a fallback on the will.
So far, it had worked out in her favor, and he was glad that his first impression wasn’t right.
She was going to be a multibillionaire, and he had no doubt that she’d be just as generous with her money as Brandy was with hers.
Sen seemed to be asking the right questions.
The only thing that concerned him was the house.
Paying it off would make it have more equity, but would it be enough?
The house that Howard had lived in was just over ten thousand square feet, and the one that Sen and Ivan lived in was just over eight.
Maybe if they added a deck to the back of it, maybe that would be enough, as long as it was enclosed. He could see that working.
After the meeting was over and Sen had all her paperwork, the people from the firm congratulated her on getting the money.
They seemed to act like they wanted her to have the money from the very beginning, and that had worked out in her favor.
If not, if Sen had decided to walk away, then the firm would have had to manage the business and the charities that had been named until the money ran out.
That would have taken centuries for it to happen, and he could understand why they were working so hard to have Sen get the vast estate.
He hoped that someday, if something like this came up, he’d be as slick as the other attorneys had been in getting things squared away for the client, rather than just for the man making out the will.
Howard might have been a shrewd businessman, but he was a bastard, too.
He was glad that Sen was able to walk away with one hundred percent of the business shares and a check for another billion.
She was going to use that to pay off the house and do what he said, put a large screened-in back deck that would surround the pool and make a nice addition to the house they were already living in.
He was sort of jealous of them for having the funds to do whatever they wanted when it came to their home. Not that he couldn’t afford to do things to his own place when he got one, but right now he was living in a two-bedroom house that he wished he’d never purchased.
When he’d been given the money from Brandy to buy him a house, he’d been excited to own something that wasn’t a condo.
He’d not liked living in the condo because it was too close to everyone else.
Not that he had anything against children, but they could be loud during the day when he was trying to work from home.
He didn’t have that at the house he had bought, but lawn mowers were going all the time, which annoyed him somewhat.
Needing to get away from his home, he stopped off to get himself some supper on the way back to his place.
His house did have a nice office that he’d been using.
Brandy had provided him with the money to get himself a good computer system set up so that he could work for her.
There had also been filing cabinets—he was a man who liked hard copies of the things that he did, as well as a fax machine and copier.
The problem was that he didn’t have it set up in a way that he liked either. It didn’t flow.
He’d been in Sen and Ivan’s home. It looked as if they had lived there for decades instead of just a month that they had been there.
There were so many homey touches that he loved going there just to sit on their couches and close his eyes.
He also loved the way the dining room was so big looking because the doors that were to open up to the deck seemed to bring the indoors out into the deck.
That’s why he thought making their deck bigger and screened in would make their dining room ten times larger than it looked.
He had a list of things that he wanted in a house, thanks to his brothers all finding their own, and he took notes on what they had.
First and foremost, he wanted a nice-sized deck so they could all sit out on it in the evenings and talk.
He thought it would also be nice to have it screened in, too, so that he could enjoy it in the earlier months of the year as well as deep into fall.
Yes, he wanted a deck; he thought and was going to be the uncle with the best stuff for the kids when they started coming along.