Liam took a deep breath in to steel himself before he knocked on his father’s door.
“Come in,” Master Gold snapped in his usual unfriendly manner.
Liam opened the door to see Master Emmerson rising from the seat in front of his father’s desk.
“We’ll continue this discussion another time,” Emmerson said to the other Master, his cruel eyes assessing Liam before he left the room. Liam sometimes wondered who was worse— Master Emmerson or his father— but he’d always held a special kind of hatred for the man who’d hurt his mother and made his childhood miserable.
“What do you need?” Gold asked Liam coldly.
Liam swallowed and closed the door behind him. “I’m here to get permission to go to Seattle today with Charlotte,” he explained. “Her brother is having some trouble with the gym he o
