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But luckily the Shad’far blood had taken its toll, and the little one’s brains were in place, and Shea was now almost the best man in the investment department. And so far he hadn’t made a single mistake, not even a minor one.

So, given the vague prospects of having children of my own someday in the future, I am quite seriously considering him for the role of successor. Years from now, of course. Let him get used to it a little first, realize that not all academic knowledge works, learn to make decisions with a cool head and not be chased by ambition. Although my brother and I, orphaned at the age of twenty, had to “enter” our parents’ business practically blind, deaf and barefoot and, as that human saying goes, to get our weapons in combat.

– You do know that drinking alcoholic beverages alone is the first sign of alcoholism, right? – Shea nods at my glass.

– Yeah, I know. – I salute him with my expensive, exclusive cognac. – Didn’t you get all your stuff out?

Shea finally moved out of my house right after I got into university. First, he moved into a dormitory, categorically refusing to live in the comfortable apartment that I offered to rent, and then, when I took him on a summer internship in his third year, he rented a small apartment on the outskirts of the capital with his first money. Now, as far as I know, he’s moved into a nice apartment.