Browbeaten, Not Broken

By Eda J Vor

John Frederick is a bully who can't see past his own interests in his research or his life. You would think his father's diagnosis would change all that...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eda J Vor
• Release date: Jun 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386992325

Book preview

A large man on a mission seems an unstoppable force and indeed, Dr. John G. Frederick's trajectory appeared resolute in its foot-stomping, arm-swinging, face grimacing gate. But with four words, spoken not in anger but in abject disappointment, he was halted.

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Your dad deserves better, she said, her voice echoing down the hallway behind him. She stood straddling the fiery wake his rage-induced march left behind, the very same figurative path every living person ran in terror from since this whole thing began. May didn't care anymore. She didn't have to. He had had her fired just minutes before.

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John turned and stared her down, a champion gun-slinger poised to pull on a naive cowpoke. He had the power to have her fired. He would not let himself be affected by her words. I could have security remove you from the property as well, Miss Huang.

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You could, and you would because you are a nasty old bastard but that wouldn't change the fact that your father deserves better than a bulldozer of a son. Some day you will see yourself as others do and I'm not sure you'll ever forgive your heart's unbearable ugliness.

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With that, she turned and walked away. She left for