1. 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…”

Η

“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-”

tone leaves no space for argument, “let me get

tried to so I

father’s mansion, and Gerald asks if I want something else freshly cooked. I tell him to just pop it in the microwave, at this point I’d

I don’t even know what it is, but there’s meat, there’s some

water next to me. “I have something to notify you about,” finally, after I’m adequately fed

There was a certain tension in the car ride back home,

I ask, trying

Gerald begins, “scattered across the country, operating in

may

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

from my empty plate, “What?” I

a sub-company under your name,” Gerald confesses with a grimace, “From today onwards

eyes widen to the size of saucers, “no!”

confirms,

to wait.

can continue your

listen to what I say?! I won’t do it; I will not take the position. You tell my father that.”

off

me, asking me if I could help her with trying to get an internship with a company

luck there too,” she told me, “see if Aiden was

with each other, and had come to a position where we could 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

she smiles at

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