Aaron rued the day he ever met Lacy Knighton. He tolerated her presence for a few years because she was one of the least annoying people in their social circle. It was less of a chore being around her than it was being around the ones who only knew how to spend money without putting in the work.
The only reason he even hung out with anyone at lunch was to forge connections at his father's request with people that might be useful to him. Ha. Lacy wasn't useful to him at all. She was his downfall.
His father wouldn't think of it that way. After Lacy succeeded in killing the one person he truly valued, business boomed. That wasn't how Aaron measured success.
So many times he desperately thought about how he would have traded his entire empire to have Keeley back for even a day so he could tell her how sorry he was and that he loved her.
