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My mother had called two of the boardDella work at the club Then she'd proceeded to tell theone as far as toto hurt her My mother had lost her mind

Jace walked intowith the two round checks on her I knehat they would find and I refused to do it She wouldn't want that

"You look ready to e with your bare hands, bro What's up?" I stormed past him and to the stairwell I needed to yell and hit a wall That was the safest place to do it

I ran up two flights of stairs before I stopped and sla everyone responsible Della didn't need this right now She was doing so much better Hoas I supposed to tell her about this?

"What happened?" Jace asked from behind me I hadn't realized he had followed elina They're evil and twisted How is it that my mother is so damn screwed up? What happened to her and my father to make them such fucked-up individuals? To make them think they can control lives? They can't! This club is mine and if I want to fire every motherfucker on the board that my father set in place, I will! It's ti deep breaths to calm myself down

"I don't kno you've dealt with the crazy as long as you have," Jace said, sitting down on the steps and watching me pace

"It hat I had to do I couldn't just let her be alone But it's affecting elina was here she helped," I said

"You need to keep your ass away fro what you need to do to deal with one of her batshit crazy episodes isn't fair You need to fix this problem," Jace said, as if it were easy Hoas I supposed to just turn away from my mother? I was all she had

"I can't How the hell do I do that?" I asked, stopping ainst the wall If it was a choice between Della and my oing to have to turn away from her First, I needed to decide about the board I needed a lawyer My oyer, notthe people he had set in place Things were different now and I didn't need a crazy-ass phone call fro my decisions

It was time I made sure this place was run by me My board would be made up of people I trusted and confided in It was ti to look at him

"Yeah?"

"You ready to be a board etting a lawyer I'rin spread across Jace's face "Hell yeah," he replied

For the first tihter I wasn't going to let randfather had left it all to me Even her home was now mine If she wanted to fuck with h to make her stop She was my mom, but Della was my life

Four hours had passed since I'd left Della Da my phone, I headed out the door to ht to her voice mail Shit!