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Hello? Who is this?

Is this Victor Montague's father?

It is, who is this.

This is a friend of his, I think you need to go home sir.

I'm on a business trip, whatever his problem is, it's not more important than a contract that will earn me millions.

He's your son.

He is, and what I'm earning right now pays for his lifestyle. I'm sorry, I need to go.

Sir, he is not an adult. He should not be responsible for his mother.

He isn't-

You have canceled having supper with him for more than two months straight.

That is because clients-

You owe him. He is one of the sweetest guys I have ever met, a true gentleman. And he deserves a father who doesn't cancel on him.

I don't always-

He deserves so much more than what you do to him and yet he was hesitating to give me your number so that you wouldn't get mad at him.

Clearly-

Sir, he needs you. Right now.

I can't just hop on a plane every time something goes wrong in his life.

No, but you can when he calls me, a girl he has never met in person, while I'm at work, while he is barely holding it together. He is in trouble and he needs you, his father, to come through for him for once in his god damn life. He needs his dad.

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I suggest you go home to see your family sir, before he realizes that he is perfectly capable of living without you.

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... Did I go too far?

... Far enough.