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?”

not have a choice, because you

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 came back,” Joseph

a choice,” I mutter back,

weight of

son,” he starts, “I wish I would let you gallivant around, go to college and be

do you

go into detail, but I have to retire from my position by the end of this year. It’s non- negotiable, and you need to

just throw something like that at me and expect me to

to ease you into this world Zelt Tech

he had a wife, and my mother was only his mistress. I was his bastard child and had he been able to conceive with his wife, I’m pretty sure that I would not

come back,” I yell, “I should’ve never listened to Gerald. Mom was right keeping me away from you! You don’t really care for me; you just

“don’t talk about things you

there to understand about all this?

me be a part of your life. I begged her to return to this city so I could be

could you not win

until her death, and I

You’re just trying to get off

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

on his face would

sealed our fate by not marrying