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, “let

even though I tried

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 was seasoned and

second more gobbling it down. I don’t even know what it is, but there’s meat,

I’ve polished off every crumb in 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 reveals.

me. There was a certain tension in the car

I ask, trying

“scattered across the

may have just returned home,

aware of that, 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 his mind to ease you into

snaps up from my empty plate, “What?”

Gerald confesses with a grimace,

eyes widen to the size

confirms, “Congratulations.”

to wait. I specifically told him that I had

can continue

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.”

that, I storm off from the

fester in anger for a few days after that, but life gets in the way. Coraline calls me, asking me if I could help her

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

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 to contact her twice, but she hadn’t given in to his whims. It was a brave thing to do,

she smiles at that.