Page 147 of 10,000 Hours With A Rich Menace

She rolled her eyes. “She’s your goddaughter, Menace.”

I kept my hands in my pockets as the staff pulled up all the luggage up onto the yacht. Kennedy came over and hugged me. “I am alright, promise.”

I looked in her face and she gave me a reassuring smile and then went with Zoya to claim a room. Kennedy was my God daughter, and as much as I hated that she worked for Case House, the girl was stubborn like her damn father.

Xander was my father’s best friend, and he asked me to be his daughter’s God father. I thought the shit was weird because I was young, and why the fuck would anybody want me to be their child’s God father? He wanted someone to look out for her, and to make sure she was always good.

It was a conversation that we never got to finish because he was murdered soon after. He didn’t give me no information on who the fuck his daughter was and how I was supposed to find her. All I knew is that I had a supposed God daughter somewhere out there, and she was put up for adoption and he lost touch with her when all the shit popped off with my uncle.

I received a packet with a lot of information from someone without a return label. Inside there was a bunch of information on this said God daughter, who happened to be Kennedy. By the time I found out who she was, she was grown, and I couldn’t locate her ass until her information popped up in Case House database that I found her.

Kennedy was stubborn and had been doing what she wanted for so long that she didn’t want to hear shit from me. At the end of the day, as much as I made a promise to her father, she was grown. The fuck was I supposed to do? I never signed up for the shit in the first place, and Kennedy was going to do what she wanted to do anyway.

Shit, she was working for me before I even knew she was. At twenty-one, she was a grown ass woman and could do what she wanted. It was one time when I didn’t protect her, but I damn sure made sure those bitches got handled.

It was the reason I told Don he needed to stay the fuck away from her. Not only was she a Case House girl, but she was also my fucking God daughter.

Landon was knocked out on the couch and the minute he heard Kennedy laugh with Zoya, his ass jumped out his sleepand was looking around like he was hearing shit. I watched him as he sat up rubbing his eyes and looked around.

“Leave her the fuck alone, Don… I already warned you,” I told him, as I continued to the back deck where my baby was.

She had been fucking up those lemon Sorbets since we got on the boat. The chef had been making it every damn day. I walked over to her and Crimson on the day bed with their laptops out. She had her hair pulled up, a pink bikini that had her breast looking right. Instead of getting her own, she had my Celine sunglasses on as she was telling Crimson whatever plans she had.

It was crazy how she came and stole my second assistant like it was hers. Then she went and raised her salary and gave her personal mental days. The second I gave her the keys to that gallery; I saw my wife tap into someone she always wanted to be. All she spoke about was her plans. Instead of humming at night, she picked my brain for business advice.

“Hey baby, what you doing?”

“Zoy just got here.”

She clapped her hands. “Kora told me that she should be here later on today. I spoke to her earlier this morning while you were in the gym.”

“You talk to my sisters more than me.”

She smiled. “You started this family group chat and never reply back to any of us.”

This was the first holiday that I was spending as a married man, but with my family. We hadn’t spent any holidays together, and this was happening because Wonder wanted it to happen. She wanted our family to be close, and as much as I fought her on it, it felt nice to be surrounded by family.

“Mens, your suit and Stevie’s dress arrived in Monaco.” Jeffie came from inside with her iPad in one hand, and Estella on her hip.

Once we were done here, we all were going to Monaco for the ball. This was the first time in a long time that both Zoya and Kora had attended one. Landon attended them because he was always with me when it came to handling most of Case House affairs. It was my sisters that was never around for them.

This was the one place where Kora could show her face without any problems. I had blackmail on every single person that attended. They opened their mouth about anything at the balls, and they could kiss their life goodbye.

“Jeffie, I am her assistant now, you gotta let me do things for her,” Burgundy told Jeffie, while taking her sunglasses off.

“You are so right… I will remember that the next time.”

“Why are you working anyway?” Stevie asked, eating that damn sorbet.

Jeffie turned to leave. “Not you both about to gang up on me… I am shutting it down after I make sure the final details are handled.”

Estella yawned. “I’m gonna put her down for a nap, and then we gonna go to shore for lunch.” Corleon took Estella, as Skyler came out and sat on the bed next to her cousin.

“Who is going to watch Stellie if we’re all going?”

“Me,” Stevie volunteered.

“Wonder, you don’t ever volunteer to babysit,” I told her. Clearly the damn sorbet had been going to her damn head.

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