Chapter 3
Though it had happened quickly, Grady thought he’d been thoroughly prepared for the move to Chicago. He knew how to raise money with the best of them, he understood how businesses worked, and he embraced the opportunity to be able to find a niche for himself outside of his father’s immediate circle of influence. There was only one thing he hadn’t anticipated.
The loneliness.
He was not a solitary personality. All of his life, he’d surrounded himself with friends, with fun, with laughter. He wasn’t so blind not to know some people chose to hang around him because he was the son of Oliver James, but he also knew that he knew how to contribute to a friendship, or how to make people smile when they needed cheering up—or even when they didn’t. He’d left behind friends when he’d rel
