Revenge of The Furtive Billionaire Heir by Ryker Helios

19. You decide everything! – Why?

My father sits opposite me on the table, facing me with an inscrutable expression on his face. If I were to look beyond the stony façade, I’m sure I would see disappointment and maybe frustration.

“Gerald told me that you want to speak to me about your position in Zelt Tech,” he started, voice steady and not betraying anything he was feeling.

“It was good of him to notify you before I did myself,” I reply, trying to sound pleasant. The last thing wanted was a fighting match with my father.

“Apparently I have been taking liberties with you,” father prompts, and I reply with a shrug.

“You did appoint me to the position of the COO without my consent.”

“You gave me consent when you said you were ready to take over the company after you returned home.”

“Yeah, I didn’t say I was going to do it immediately,” I point out, “father, with all honesty, you cannot expect me, a college student with only one year and two months of education under my belt to take over an actual company.”

“Boy, I started this company with no education whatsoever,” my father protested, his mask cracking a bit, ” When I started this, I only had my arms and legs in addition to the head on my shoulders. Look at me

now.”

“Yes, I am aware,” I grouse because it’s going to be like pulling teeth trying to explain something to him, “I am just not ready for such a huge responsibility.”

“You will never conquer fear unless to face it head-on.”

“What if I don’t want to face it?”

a choice, because you already

rise within me, “I made the choice? You were the one who was begging me left and right trying to get me to come home after mom died. You were the one who assigned Gerald, who is by the way,

the one who came back,” Joseph points out,

choice,” I mutter

weight of the world on his shoulders.

he starts, “I wish I would let you gallivant around, go to college and be a normal kid, but the circumstances

you mean?”

the end of this year. It’s non- negotiable, and

throw something like that at me and expect me to accept it with no protest! You can’t throw me

Zelt Tech is new, and with Gerald, you can gain all the experience you need to take over Gerald will help you along the way, in fact, all my executives will. I’ll give you a list of close friends as well, along with their contact information so

never known him much growing up, because he had a wife, and my mother was only his mistress. I was his bastard child and had

Mom was right keeping me away from you! You don’t really care for me; you just want me around because

father’s eyes turn stony hard, “don’t talk about

is there to understand about all this? It’s clear as day what

“I begged your mother to let me be a part of your life. I begged her to return to this city so I could be a father to my

billionaire,” I exclaim, “how could you not win a court

an agreement until her death, and

You’re just trying to

around to see if I’m alive after your mother died,” there is hurt in his voice, I could hear it. I don’t dare to

his face would be my undoing.”

marrying my mother,” I mutter