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Amber POV
My heart was pounding.
Jason stood quietly near the entrance, the tablet still in his hand. From where I was sitting, I could see the highlighted emails on the screen before he locked it.
He had found something.
Probably something terrible.
The urge to walk over and ask him immediately was almost overwhelming.
Not now.
Not in front of the children.
Whatever Alexander Vincent was planning could wait another hour.
The children couldn’t. 1
I forced myself to smile as if nothing had happened.
It took every ounce of self-control I possessed.
“Actually,” I said, looking toward the back of the room, “I think someone just arrived who might have a better answer than I do.”
Every child turned around.
Jason looked up, slightly surprised that everyone was suddenly staring at him.
I smiled and waved him over.
“Come here.”
He hesitated for only a second before slipping the tablet into the inside pocket of his jacket and walking toward us.
The children immediately made room for him.
Some of the younger ones whispered excitedly.
Mr.Sun.
The owner of Sun Corporation.
The man from the news.
The father of Alice and Alex.
To them, he was almost legendary.
I reached for his hand as he sat beside me.
“We’ve been talking about asking for help.”
I looked at him.
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“Do you have an example?”
Jason looked at me.
Then blinked.
Then looked almost offended.
“An example?”
He pointed at me.
“Well…”
“You.”
I laughed softly.
“Me?”
He nodded as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“You helped me.”
The room became completely silent.
Jason looked toward the children.
“You know…”
He smiled faintly.
“Being an heir isn’t always as glamorous as people think.”
Several children nodded.
Especially the older ones.
“Heirs.”
He paused.
“And boys especially…”
‘…are often taught that we have to solve everything alone.”
He rested his forearms on his knees.
“We’re told that asking for help means we’re weak.”
“That if someone rescues us…”
“…we weren’t good enough.”
His smile faded.
“I believed that.”
“For a very long time.”
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I could hear a pin drop.
son wasn’t the type to talk about himself.
The children noticed too.
“When my parents passed away…”
He continued quietly.
“…everything they built started disappearing.”
“The companies.”
“The properties.”
“The things they left behind.”
“I was trying.”
He laughed softly.
“I really was.”
“I worked harder than I had ever worked.”
“I slept very little.”
“I thought if I just tried a little harder…”
“…everything would somehow be okay.”
He looked down at his hands.
“It wasn’t enough.”
The honesty in his voice made my chest tighten.
“I didn’t know how to ask anyone for help.”
“I didn’t even know I needed help.”
His eyes found mine.
Then he smiled.
“One evening…”
“Miss Amber walked up to me.”
Several children immediately looked at me.
Jason chuckled.
“She handed me a business card.”
“A lawyer.”
“She told me…”
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He imitated my voice surprisingly well.
Call him.””
The children laughed.
“Then…”
Jason spread his hands.
“She left.”
He looked back at me.
“She didn’t stay to convince me.”
“She didn’t lecture me.”
“She didn’t tell me asking for help was okay.”
“She simply gave me the opportunity.”
“And trusted me to make the decision.”
I smiled.
I had almost forgotten that evening.
Jason looked toward the children again.
“So…”
“The first thing you should do…”
“…isn’t learn how to ask for help.”
Several children frowned.
He continued.
“The first thing you need…”
“…is real friends.”
The room remained perfectly quiet.
“Friends who value you.”
“Friends who understand you.”
“Friends who won’t disappear the moment life becomes difficult.”
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