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 argument,

tried to so I

are leftovers in the industrial-size refrigerator of the industrial-size kitchen in my 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

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 some sort of vegetable and flaky pastry, so it’s enough for me.

of water next to me. “I have something

was a certain tension in the car ride back

up,” I ask, trying to be

Consolidated,” Gerald begins, “scattered across the country,

may have just returned home,

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

snaps up from my empty plate,

with a

to the size of saucers,

Gerald confirms, “Congratulations.”

thought father was going to wait. I specifically told him that I had to be done

continue your schooling-”

listen to what I say?! I won’t

storm off from

me if I could help her with trying to get an internship with a company that wasn’t under

luck there too,” she told me, “see if

the past few days, we’d talked 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

smiles