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-”

no space for

my hunger even though I tried to so I nod

refrigerator of the industrial-size kitchen in my father’s mansion, and Gerald asks if I want something else freshly

face a second more gobbling it down. I don’t even know what it is, but there’s meat, there’s some sort of

waits 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 adequately fed

something to tell me. There was a certain tension in the car ride back home, and I

ask, trying

directly under Greyson Consolidated,” Gerald begins, “scattered across the country, operating in various industries,

I’m already aware of that,” I point out, “I may have just returned home, but I’m not new to

nods once, “and so does your father. You promised him that you will be

snaps up from my

had already registered a sub-company under your name,” Gerald confesses with a grimace, “From today onwards you’re officially the COO of Zelt

the size

confirms, “Congratulations.”

going to wait. I specifically told him that I had to be done with schooling

can continue your

my god, why won’t any of you listen to what I say?! I won’t do it; I will not take the position. You

I storm off from

Coraline calls me, asking me if

too,” she told me, “see if Aiden was really telling

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

how she smiles at