Weak in the Knees Ch. 05 - Sex Stories

Weak in the Knees Ch. 05

... English and Spanish. "Ease up off your son, cabrón! He's never had MS before and he's asustado ahora! You should be more understanding and compasivo as his father!"

Before he could go much farther, Brinxton interceded by stepping in between them, facing Diego with his hands raised to eye level, palms outward in a calming gesture. "Easy, Diego, I think he gets the point."

The level of Zev's anger seemed to have gone down between Zach's and Diego's responses, but before Zev could say anything, Zach shook his head and said, "No, he's right. I was a liability in more ways than one because I didn't want to accept that things have to change. I put myself and the company at risk, and everyone here has reason to be angry."

"Disability is hard," Zayne interjected. "Really hard. It changes everything about your life and the way you view it, and it changes the way the world sees you. I had to get my crash course in it all at once, but at least we had a pretty good idea once we did the original surgeries of what we could expect for my mobility. You're having to figure that all out a bit at a time. Your body is changing, your ability to react to the world as an able-bodied man is changing, and you're freaking out and not sure how to do it. "And that's pretty normal. Gradual disability almost always leads to the person doing too much and then paying for it. You're in that particular stage of gradual disability, and that sucks. And everyone does have reason to be angry, but ...

... we can be compassionate too."

"Alright, I hear both of you," Zev acknowledged. "I'm sorry. I went too far, Zach. But we do need to figure out what to do about this."

Zach took in a shaky breath and let it out before he nodded his head. "Yeah, I've actually been thinking about that since I woke up, and I think we should bring Tyson out to take over as CEO instead."

Brinxton seemed to disapprove, but kept his peace because this was a family business and he had no right to offer his opinions. Diego seemed mostly concerned for Zach's welfare, but he also knew how important a decision this was for him. Diego rubbed his arm in support. Zayne and their dad mainly looked surprised, silently mulling that over for a moment as Zach started to fidget from the silence.

"You don't have to make any hasty decisions," Zev finally said.

"It's not really that hasty. There are areas of the job I can't do anymore, and the list of things I can't do will only get longer as time goes on. Tyson and I can discuss with you what it will look like, but so long as I stay on as lead architect until I..." Zach swallowed hard here, obviously having a hard time with this. "...until I can't sketch anymore, then I'm fine."

Zev looked at his eldest for a moment somberly before he nodded his head. "Alright, I'll ask Tyson to make the trip here and we can discuss how this will go. I love you, Zachariah. You're the first baby of mine I got to hold and got to see. I was only angry because I was ...