Revenge of The Furtive Billionaire Heir by Ryker Helios

13. I wasn’t ready for this.

Coraline was pretty silent when we dropped her at her parents’ house, rather than the apartment she shared with her ex-boyfriend. She changed her mind after learning about my identity after I promised her that I would help her get into Greyson Consolidated. It felt like her fears alleviated a bit, and she promised not to go back to the apartment for her own safety.

She thanked me profusely after we dropped her off, and gave me her name.

“I’m sorry,” she apologized again, looking near tears, “I’m so sorry for everything I did. I don’t deserve this help…”

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“I forgive you,” I responded, and meant every word.

Gerald doesn’t ask me any questions as we make our way home, nor does he talk after we get there. He follows me silently as I walk through my father’s house, meaning to go to my room.

“Young master,” finally, he talks, “did you

have any

dinner?”

My stomach, at that moment, chooses to growl.

“No,” I say, “didn’t have the time, was with Aiden and Coraline.”

“I see,” something in his tone tells me that he doesn’t believe that’s the whole truth. Gerald is scarily perspective like that, “please follow me to the kitchen, young master, and let me make you some dinner.”

“Oh, no, Gerald, you don’t have to-”

leaves no space for argument, “let me

I tried to so I nod and follow

something else freshly cooked. I tell him to just pop it in the microwave, at this point I’d eat cardboard if it was seasoned and warm.

soon as I get a whiff of the food, my appetite returns, and I don’t face a second more gobbling it down. I don’t even know what it is, but there’s meat, there’s

until I’ve polished off every crumb in my plate, and places a tall glass of water next to me. “I have something to notify you about,” finally, after I’m

was a certain tension

up,” I ask, trying to be nonchalant.

are numerous sub-companies directly under Greyson Consolidated,” Gerald begins, “scattered across the country, operating in various industries, and

aware of that,” I point out, “I may have just returned home, but I’m

your father. You promised him that you will be taking over the main company from him, so he has made

up from my empty plate, “What?”

under your name,” Gerald confesses with a grimace, “From

widen to the size of saucers, “no!”

confirms,

chagrinned, “I thought father was going to wait. I specifically told him that

continue your schooling-”

listen to what I say?! I won’t

I storm off

for a few days after that, but life gets in the way. Coraline calls me, asking me if I could help her with trying to get an internship with a company that wasn’t under

she told me,

call ourselves acquaintances. Not friends exactly, but getting there. We helped each other with school and life, and she vented to me about her abusive relationship with Aiden. He’d tried to contact her twice, but she hadn’t given in to his whims. It was a brave thing to do, and I didn’t hesitate to tell her

smiles at that.