Chapter 215: Love, Sweet Love
At first Sebastian had not seen it. A chink in the armour that his nephew always had on... a weakness.
In his defence, no one could blame him for not seeing it. It was very easy to miss afterall.
Normally, when it came to searching for faults in his nephew. Sebastian was very good at that. From spotting the fashion faux pas, that was his nephew’s beard. To watching with barely concealed joy those wonderful weeks when his nephew had turned into a fire breathing dragon. And even during that time when he had gotten the idiot to sign over control of the solar panel plant.
The fallout of that had been epic, and watching his nephew try to control the situation had been highly entertaining. It would have been even more fun if his nephew had gotten beaten up and set alight. But not all wishes could come true.
Anyways, the point was, when it came to his nephew. Sebastian was very good at spotting weakness. But over the years, his nephew had come to show only one particular kind of weakness. The obvious kind, that either had him biting off people’s heads. Or the one that had him signing contracts that he had not read.
But the type of weakness that his nephew was currently showing was something new. Something that Sebastian had never seen before. Derek Haven, who was as frigid as that cold-blooded mother of his, and as cunning as Sebastian’s dearly departed brother had been, was going soft. The softness that Derek was currently displaying was not the kind that made people donate millions to charities. Or the one that had them running marathons or standing in lines feeding the poor and needy. No, it was a different kind of softness.
It was the softness of a man in love, something that had never happened before. During the boy’s teenage years, as well as his twenties. Sebastian had held out hope. He had been banking on his nephew being foolish enough to fall in love with one of those new age types. The ones who believed that money and power were not important. He had been hoping with everything in him that once his nephew met such a person. Then he would abandon everything, leaving Haven Group in Sebastian’s very safe and very welcoming hands.
But it had seemed that Derek had inherited his mother’s self-serving personality. Only being able to fall in love with money. No matter what anyone said or did. They could never lie to Sebastian and tell him that that woman had married his brother because of love. He knew for a fact that it had been an arranged marriage.
He doubted that things had changed after the two of them had been together for a while. His nephew having inherited his mother’s inability to love anyone but herself, and money, had been a huge let down for Sebastian, but he had overcome. Just as he always did. He had dusted himself up, and had gone on to spend the years looking for other weaknesses within his nephew. Celebrating whenever he found a few here and there, that he could exploit. But it seemed that unlike his mother. Derek was capable of love. It had just taken him a while to get there. But now his nephew was definitely in love.