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-”

Master Greyson,” Gerald’s tone leaves no space for argument,

tried to so I nod and follow him.

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

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,

next to me.

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

I ask, trying to

Gerald begins, “scattered across the country, operating in various industries,

I point out, “I may have just returned home, but I’m not new to this.”

be taking over the main company from him, so he has made up his mind to ease you into his

snaps up from my empty

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

the size of saucers, “no!”

confirms,

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

continue your schooling-”

from the chair, “Never like this, oh my god, why won’t any of you listen to what I

off from

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

told

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

she smiles at