#Chapter 135: The Favor

The following day, after a majority of the party-goers left, the rest of us decided to chill out at the indoor pool in the back of the lodge. Monica and I were lying out on some of the lounge chairs while Liam and a couple of his friends were playing a small game of volleyball in the pool. Because the matches were finally over, Liam and I saw no harm in telling some of our friends the truth about the nature of the games. Meaning that aside from the championship being on the line, Liam had made a deal with his father. There was more at stake than just the title of champion. Aaron made it mandatory that Liam win because he needed to essentially make his stance within the Winslow family as the next potential heir. Yeah, a title that Arthur had been groomed for his entire life. Now that I was letting him creep back into my mind, I just now realized how uncharacteristically well Arthur took to losing to Liam’s team yesterday... He and his team certainly put up a good fight to ea