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?”

do not have a choice,

me to come home after mom died. You were the one who assigned Gerald, who is by the way, not an actual butler, to me.”

were the one who came back,” Joseph points out, almost

didn’t have much of a choice,” I mutter back, my voice lowering.

sighs with the weight of the

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

you mean?”

my position by the end of this year. It’s non- negotiable,

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

is right, I’ll explain everything to you, I promise. But for now, I can’t. You have to trust me on this. I’m trying to ease you into this world 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 you

me by name. I’d never known him much growing up, because he had a wife, and my mother was only his

Gerald. Mom was right keeping me away from you! You don’t really care for me; you just want me around because I’m your only child!”

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

about all this? It’s clear as

you,” my father replies, “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 son. But she refused, and she had the custodial rights. to you. There was

“how could you not win

until her death, and

trying to get off the hook.”

I’m alive after your mother died,” there is hurt in his voice, I

on his face would be

marrying