Right now, Max was living a double life.
One life as Max Stern, the heir to the Stern family's empire, constantly tangled in the web of his family members' affairs, burdens, and dangerous troubles. Whenever a difficult situation needed handling, whenever a storm in the Stern world threatened to spiral out of control, Max had Aron to step in and quietly make it disappear.
Then there was his other life. The one at school, where he was Max Smith, the untouchable leader of the Bloodline Group. The so-called delinquents who held influence not only in one school, but across several in the entire Brinehurst area.
Before, it had been Jay who acted as his right hand in this world, the one who would help him settle disputes and keep the group together. But now that role had shifted to Joe, who was doing a surprisingly solid job of keeping everything in order, making sure the Bloodline's hold on their territory didn't weaken.
