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-”

for argument, “let me

tried to so I nod and

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

and I don’t face a second more gobbling it down. I don’t even

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 and watered, he

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

trying to be nonchalant.

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

may have just returned home, but I’m not

so does your father. You promised him that you will be taking over the main

up from my empty plate, “What?” I

with a grimace, “From today onwards you’re officially the COO of

the size of saucers,

Gerald confirms,

yell, chagrinned, “I thought father was going to wait. I specifically told him that I had to be done with schooling

continue your schooling-”

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

that, I storm off from the

days after that, but life gets in the way. Coraline calls me, asking me if I could help her with

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

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

how she smiles at