Unloved

Persistent.

Everyone snaps their heads to me. I rub my my temple with my finger's.

"Junior can i speak with you. Please" I grit my teeth. we walk out of the room and I rub my face with my hands.

"Junior, what the actual fuck is that woman doing here." He looks at me confused.

"She's the owner of the investors company" he says looking at his phone

"you've got to be fucking kidding me" i throw my hands up

"Im confused-"

"Junior that is my mother" I say it like venom on the tongue

He immediately tenses. Junior is the only other person besides myself who is aware of the relationship I have or had with my mother. He also is the only other person besides Nik and myself who knows of my line of work before I became a CEO.

"Lucifer I swear I did not know, if i did i would not have let her in." he says giving me his full attention.

He never calls me Lucifer so I know hes being genuine. He also doesn't know what my mother looks like so I can't blame him.

I rub my hands through my hair, "She wasn't here last time, correct?"

"I'm not sure honestly, Why is she even here like back in town?" he says scratching his head

"She's trying to get me to start the Vipers back up junior. That is why she's here now"

"Oh for fucks sake" he says with his hand on his hips and his head hanging.

We walk back into the meeting room and we sit in our chair's. I glance at my mother and she has a smug grin on her face. The investor begins to talk and the meeting starts.

The meeting has been going pretty well so far. Junior was right this is a good investment, but I can't, if I invest in this then my mother gets the money she needs to reboot my father's old business. I cannot let that happen. The meeting is coming to an end and I tell the investor I will give him his answer by Monday.

Junior and I begin to walk out, "Junior  it is a good investment, but I can't It's my mother" we make our way to my office.

We enter the office and junior throws himself on the couch like he always does. I take my reserved spot behind my desk and lean back in my chair.

"I don't know what to do J, I can't buy the company off my mother she wont let me, I can't invest in it because all the money will be going to her" I let out a stressed sigh.

Someone knocks on the door and me and junior snap our heads to each other. We both have an idea of who that is. Before I can even deny the person entry, my mother comes waltzing in.

"Hello son and-" she gives junior a once over, "company" she makes her way to one the of the couch chairs that are directly in front of my desk.

"get out" I say not even sparing her glance.

"I came to have a chit chat" she says leaning back crossing her legs, she looks back at junior again, "alone"

"He's not leaving. But you can see yourself out." I say growing frustrated that shes not leaving.

"you know, You will eventually have no choice but to invest in me, if not at least one of my many man companies." she says waving her hand in the air.

"Ha alright" I say letting out a dry chuckle.

"lucy baby, think back to when you were head viper-"

"I was a teenager, a child at that" I say glaring at her, "that's not my life anymore"