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 get you something

ignore my hunger even though I tried to so I nod and follow

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

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

my plate, and places a tall glass of water next

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

trying to be nonchalant.

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

that,” I point out, “I may have just returned home,

him that you will be taking over the main company from him, so he has

my

under your name,” Gerald confesses with a

widen to the size

confirms, “Congratulations.”

want congratulations,” I yell, chagrinned, “I thought father was going to wait. I specifically told him that I had

can continue your

like this!” I get up from the chair, “Never like this, oh 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 tell my father that.”

off from the room.

gets in the way. Coraline calls me, asking me if I could help her with trying to get an internship with a

to try my luck there too,” she told me, “see if

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 to me about her abusive relationship with Aiden. He’d tried

she smiles at that.