Page 150 of The Rules Of Attraction
Chapter 27
Summer
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Iwent home about ten minutes after.
Couldn’t stay with my tormented mind.
It seemed that I’d been mistaken again. But this time it was my own fault.
I knew Alex was just determined to pursue his dreams.
However, the man I saw today wasn’t the person I thought I knew.
As I sat here in the living room I went over today’s events.
Thinking about what I was going to do.
All of the things that Marc found was enough to damn Devon to hell. If the authorities found out he’d go down big time and anyone associated with him would either get dragged down with him, or get a bad rep. Just like at Ashfords.
At Ashfords, the senior management were all guilty, but the people below them like myself weren’t. Look what happened with that.
When people wanted to form an opinion they just did it. If the terrible thing that happened was so bad that it affected thousands, it wouldn’t matter what an innocent person did to show they were innocent.
I’d must have tailored my CV all six ways to Sunday before I had an interview.
But, I’d been invited as a scapegoat. The interviewer wanted someone to scream at someone from Ashfords for her loss of investment, and that happened to be me.
I’d never forget her telling me that I’d be lucky if I ever worked as an attorney again.
Those words stayed with me for a long time, and were in my mind now.
They rung in my ears and warned me that the same thing could happen to me again if I stayed at Sullivan’s.
Alex was blinded by his desires to be senior partner. Blinded and focused on pleasing his father.
He wasn’t thinking of the consequences of his actions.
I couldn’t believe that on the bare surface of it, he was willing to go to court, probably win and end up cheating that poor lady out of her investment that heknewwas set up to rob her.
It was wrong. Getting involved was wrong. And, that just wasn’t the guy I’d come to know. That same guy who rushed off to help Clarrisa because he didn’t want her to go bankrupt and lose everything. The same guy who offered his services for free for a ton of clients who couldn’t afford his normal legal costs.
I’d seen him in action and knew that the person who could act with such kindness wasn’t thinking straight.
What did it all mean though?
All of that meant nothing if he was going to follow the plan. It was like giving someone poison, knowing what you’re giving them will kill them and then trying to find an antidote after they’d drank it. It was a problem that could have been prevented from the start.
That was him.
As for me…
I couldn’t allow myself to get caught in that if it all went wrong. My father worked hard to make sure I got what I wanted out of life.
I honored him by working equally hard to make sure I got the most out of whatever it was I did.
It would be a terrible move on my part to entertain Alex’s plan, follow it all through and miss a chance to further my own career.
