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-”

leaves no space for

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

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 eat cardboard if it

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

crumb in my plate, and places a tall glass of water next to me. “I have something to notify you

tension in the car ride back

I ask, trying to

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

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

be taking over the main company from him, so

from my empty plate, “What?” I hiss

name,” Gerald confesses with a grimace, “From today onwards you’re officially the COO of Zelt Technologies.”

to the size

confirms, “Congratulations.”

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

continue

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

I storm off

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

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

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

how she smiles at that.