Chapter 267 Jake

• I wake from the little sleep I managed to get. Not helped by Rose choosing to call in the early hours, so wound up and in such a state that she had simply forgotten the time difference. Quite frankly, I am that sleep deprived through stress and feeling fed up with the whole situation I am in, that I am getting sick of it all. I know I was blunt with her, and probably told her what she was not wanting to hear, but I honestly do not care right now.
• I heard all the evidence Knox and Lilah gave me and I asked them to remove me from the deal. I want nothing to do with the decisions. This is too closely involved with me. And the less I have to do with it, the better. Rose’s family business is, quite bluntly, fucked. I don’t know what they have been doing to it, as when her father was at his finest he was a highly successful business man and seriously esteemed around a lot of the world. Now his businesses and his name and reputation were crumbling, yet he seemed to have been doing less in the businesses over the years, which makes me wonder if this is the work of his daughters or other higher ups in the businesses he had misguidedly trusted.
• But my patience is unnaturally thinner than usual, and I am at the end of my tether with it all. The way Rose has been treating me is driving me mad. Then the judgements and little digs, albeit in humour, from my friends about the situation irritate me more, making me realise just how badly she is treating me and how little respect she has for me. I don’t understand what I have done to deserve this.