Page 172 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 10
“Traveling around Costa Rica without a care in the world.”
“And how does that make you feel?”
“Well, I certainly wouldn’t enjoy taking three months off to travel.”
“Not how you’d feel joining him. How do you feel that he’s doing that while you’re a professor at the University of New Castle?”
I wasn’t sure where he was going with this. “I’m happy where I am.”
“You sounded a little resentful when you said he was traveling without a care in the world.”
“I’m not resentful of my brother’s philandering ways.” If Rob wanted to waste his life away that was his choice.
“Hm.” Dr. Clark wrote something down in his notebook.
I glared at him. “I said I’m happy where I am and I meant it.”Stop writing things down.
“Then have you talked to your sister recently?”
“Nope.”
“Your parents?”
I didn’t like where this was going. I shook my head.
“What about some of your friends from back home? You’ve mentioned Mason and Matt before…”
“I just told you Ian was visiting.”
He jotted something down in his notebook. Really, what the hell was he writing?
“And I talked to Rob,” I added. “That counts.”
“And that made you feel…”
“Annoyed.” I immediately shook my head. Dr. Clark had tricked me. “Or maybe I’m just annoyed with you.”
“Why are you annoyed with your brother?” he asked, ignoring my last comment.
“He’s still relying on my parents’ money. That’s the only way he can afford to travel because he’s never worked a day in his life. And I don’t understand how he can take anything from them. How am I the only one who sees how fucking awful my parents are?”
He gave me a hard stare. He hated when I cursed during our sessions. “Have you ever thought that maybe he takes their money even though he knows that they’re not normal, kind, loving parents? Maybe he feels like they at least owe him that.”
“I’d never take a cent from them.”
“Yes…youwouldn’t. Because of howyourationalize things. But maybe your siblings have minds of their own?”
Touché.“Your point?”
“That just because your siblings still value a relationship with your parents doesn’t mean you can’t still value a relationship with your siblings. They’re not mutually exclusive.”
“And I told you I called Rob.” What the hell did he want from me?
“But you admitted that the call annoyed you.”
I didn’t know what he wanted me to say.I’ll be better behaved next time I call my little brother?“Okay, great. Anything else you want to dissect today?”
“That colleague you mentioned being interested in. Have you seen her again?”
