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

though I tried to so

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

whiff of the food, my appetite returns, and I don’t face a second more gobbling it down. I

and places a tall glass of water next to me. “I have something to notify you

a certain tension

up,” I ask, trying to

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

already aware of that,” I point out, “I may have just returned

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

up from my empty plate, “What?”

registered a sub-company under your name,” Gerald confesses with a grimace,

widen to the size of

confirms,

thought father was going to wait.

continue

chair, “Never like this, oh my god, why won’t any of you listen to what I say?! I

storm off from the room.

few days after that, but life gets in the way. Coraline calls me, asking me if I could help her with trying to get an internship with a company that wasn’t under

she told me, “see if Aiden was really

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

how she smiles at