In Too Deep Book 1( Urban)

Part 12

The next morning before school I snuck into my fathers office.  I took the audio recorder that I purchased and dropped it into the pencil holder that sat on his desk.  This was the one place in the house where he conducted most of his business, if I needed to know anything about my father I was going to know now.
On my way out of his office I noticed a frame that held a picture of my dad and I. At that moment I felt like taking the audio recorder back to the store, but honestly I knew I had to do what I said I would do. At a young age my father instilled in me to never go back on my word.    Its really fucked up that I have to use what he taught me on him, but so what! My mom means a lot to me and I be damn if I allow him to take us down with all of his bullshit. I wanted to punch a hole into the frame but I couldn't, instead I just kept it pushing. As I opened his office  door to walk out my heart dropped to the pit of my stomach.
"Zeus, I thought you were already gone for school"? my dad asked while he and another unfamiliar guy entered into his office.
"I'm going now ". I said as I quickly brushed between the both of them. I didn't want to say much because I was afraid that if I said anything else, he would ask more questions.    "Ok son". Have a good day he called out to me as I exited the front door.

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Ava clung to me all day at school. She constantly kept asking me if I was ok and if I felt safe. She became really annoyed when I didn't respond the way she wanted me to, but little did she know that I was just as curious, concerned, worried, all the above as she was. After school I rushed home so I could get the recorder. To my surprise my ma was home early. I walked into the house and she was sitting in our den talking to the same unfamiliar guy that was here talking to my father earlier. "Who the hell is this guy". I thought to myself as I slowly walked past the entrance to the den to get a better look at him. I was thrown off when I noticed my  ma quickly slip some kind of folder into her tote that sat on the back of her chair.

"Hey Zoosky, how was school?" She asked with a smile on her face that seemed to be forced as she stood up motioning for me to give her a hug and a kiss like she always did. I entered the den still with the look of curiosity on my face. Although, I knew that she was happy to see me, there was something that didn't seem right.

"I'll just be on my way. The unfamiliar guy said as he got up from the table to dismiss himself.

"Who is he?" I asked my ma.

"Ohhhh that's Brian, he's your father's financial advisor". She replied as we both followed behind to let him out the front door.

"Oh, he was here earlier today." Did he stay here all day or something?" I asked sarcastically. I thought she would have laughed, but she didn't. She looked at me with one eyebrow raised. "Oh really?" she replied.

Next day....

I plugged the audio recorder into my computer. For the first few minutes there was nothing but silence, then, I heard my father enter the room talking to someone. "So my wife tells me that you're here to help me with my finances". He said laughing

I frantically reached over to grab my head phones off of my nightstand, plugged it into the side of my laptop and turned the volume up as loud as it could go.

"My clothing stores have been really bringing in a shit load of cash". "I'm thinking about opening up a few more." He added.
"Mr. Antonio, I understand that you are looking to expand your brand, but we have to make sure that you are covered financially in every aspect of the business. " "I'm just going to cut it to the chase". "Your wife gave me a list of all of your expenses, coming in and coming out." Let's just say that the profit that you are making from the two businesses that you have are not pulling in enough dough to kick off another few more stores.". "If you open up more businesses without the funds to support, then you will for sure fall into debt."
I listened closely at what sounded like glasses clinking together.
"So let me ask you, ummmm what did you say your name was again?"
"Brian sir".
The guy that was here yesterday, I thought to myself.
"Brian would you like a glass of cognac?"

"No thank you sir, I don't drink." He replied.

"Well, Brian I appreciate you coming out today and keeping me on my p's and q's. I'll look over this financial plan you gave me and maybe consider a few changes.

"Ok Mr. Antonio, call the office if you have any questions, I'm actually going on vacation so you can leave all of your questions with Linda, she'll take care of all of your needs while I'm away. Brian said

"Ok, enjoy your vacation.
I heard the sound of a door close then my father spoke .
"Follow him, he just left! Don't let him get on that flight!
My mind scrambled around as I tried to figure out why he wanted someone to follow Brian.