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-”

no space for argument,

even though I tried to so

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 eat cardboard if it was

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

next to me. “I have something

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

ask, trying

Gerald begins, “scattered

point out, “I may have just returned

am aware of that, Master,” Gerald nods once, “and so does your father. You promised him that you will be taking over the main company from him, so he has made up his mind to ease you into his world.”

snaps up from my empty

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

the size of saucers, “no!”

Gerald confirms, “Congratulations.”

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

can continue your

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

I storm off from

me if I could

try my luck there too,” she told me, “see if Aiden was really telling the truth.”

helped each other with school and life, and she vented to me about her abusive relationship with Aiden. He’d tried to contact

how she smiles at

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