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 me get you something to

my hunger even though I tried to so I nod and

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 was

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

I’ve polished off every crumb in my plate, and places a tall glass of water next

tension in the car ride back home, and I

I ask, trying to

Gerald begins, “scattered across

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

father. You promised him that you will be taking over the main company from him, so he has made

my empty plate, “What?”

sub-company under your name,” Gerald confesses with a grimace, “From today onwards you’re

to the size of

confirms,

I don’t want congratulations,” I yell, chagrinned, “I thought father was going to wait. I specifically told him that I had to be done

continue your

of you listen to what I say?! I won’t do it; I will not take the

that, I storm off

in anger for a few days after that, but life gets in the way. Coraline calls me, asking me

she told me, “see if Aiden was really

we’d 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 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 to

smiles at that.