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A suite at the games isn’t enough of an exchange for my brother. He doesn’t need the money, but I know for certain he doesn’t work for free.
“He’s got a few apartment complexes that he’s wanting to get off his hands. Two in Nashville and one in Greenway Grove. If I helped him get everything together for this buy, he said he’d give me the titles.”
“What are you going to do with three apartment complexes?”
Ivan isn’t money hungry. He does everything for a cause, moves with intention.
“More affordable housing, maybe even pro-rated rent for younger kids to help get them on their feet a little after college.”
“You want to take on the management of all of that, plus GA, just out of the kindness of your heart?”
“What else do I have to do?” He smiles and shrugs.
“I don’t know, date? Are you ever going to? I’ve never seen you even attempt to take a woman out since high school, and that’s been well over a decade.”
“It’s not that I’m not interested; I just haven’t found the right one. Call this endeavor setting myself and my future family up for success.”
“Says the billionaire.”
“You can’t berate me about finding a girlfriend, Mister I Don’t Believe In Marriage.”
Looking at him tenderly, my most famous saying bites me in the ass, just like I knew it would.
“Everyone’s willing to change for someone, right?”
We both chuckle, and the comfort of our togetherness bleeds in with the rest of the restaurant.
Over the next hour, we fill each other in on life and bicker about small shit that holds no importance. Not long after we pay the tab, my phone buzzes in my jeans pocket.
FIA
Any chance you can pick me up for the studio tonight?
ME
I’m beginning to think you have a lamp you rub every time you need something.
FIA
I’d be out of wishes by now.
Is she flirting with me? What kind of fucking magic shit is going on?
ME
What time?
FIA
We’re about to get in the cars to come back to the hotel, so like thirty minutes.
ME
I’ll be waiting.
CHAPTER 33
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