Chapter 4

Adam’s POV:

Beep beep beep.

What is that annoying noise?

Beep beep beep.

This better be important, otherwise whoever is calling me on this bloody phone is looking for death.

Oh. It’s dad. I answered the call while still half asleep. “What’s up dad? Why call at this unholy hour” I can practically imagine how he’s glaring at the phone “unholy? Son it’s 4pm. Don’t tell me you’re spending your university days off hooking up with girls.”

I chuckle, and then roll over to my left and see a woman’s body veiled with the comforter. Her vanilla skin illuminated under the darkness of the room, her back faces me but I know by her uneven breathing she’s awake but pretending to sleep. Is she waiting to see if I kick her out? Come on, I'm not that heartless.

“Dad, what else would I be doing, you know me too well.”

I stretch and get out of bed, I put on my glasses, and put on my bathrobe. “As you said I have 3 weeks off so I also need to catch up on leisure time and satisfy my desires.” I pause and then turn to the girl, what did she say her name was? Bella? Betty? I don’t know, maybe belly - a mix of both.

“After all, women crawls to me like leeches hoping for something other than a one night stand.” Her posture stilled and I wondered if she died by accident, oh never mind she’s still pretending to snore. Okay it’s going to be the hard way then.

There was a long pause on the other end of the line, then he said “…okay, wrap up quickly then come meet me in my office in an hour, if you come more than an hour late, that’s 30 million gone from your account.”

Does he think I’m some spoiled rich kid? Well I am but I know how to make a living without my daddy’s money. I cut the phone and walked towards the en suite bathroom but paused. “You got 10 minutes to get out or I’ll have to do this the hard way, so stop pretending to sleep and get a move on. Chop chop, time is ticking.”

I then close the door and first take a piss to relieve myself, then look at myself in the mirror. I have changed quite a bit since the past two years. Since… Angela passed away…

Anyways I’m not going to think of that.

I have grown a lot of facial hair, and my hair is longer. My hairstylist gave me quite a big glow-up. I also did start working out, well it was mainly a coping mechanism for me to get over… her death. But I guess It did me good, considering girls throw themselves at me left, right and centre. I still wear my glasses but it doesn’t divert the attention of these leeches, in fact they crawl a little faster to get my attention.

Anyways, after flexing my muscles I jumped into my shower to get rid of that girl’s perfume off me. I absolutely hate strong perfume’s. If I’m being honest I really don’t know how I stayed 5 years with Aria, she’s a walking red flag wearing strong perfume and how did I not realise the small glances she gave to my friends.

After showering I brushed my teeth and fixed up my hair and proceeded to walk in my walk-in closet but felt a presence from behind. Belly (Betty and Bella) tried to wrap her small hands around my torso but she got distracted by my abs and started touching my abs and chest up and down. I swear I told her to leave. I’ll give her one last chance, see I’m not mean.

I peeled her fingers away and stepped out and tried to not give her a “scary” look as Fred calls it. Fred’s my best mate since high school, unfortunately he saw me at my worst but I am most grateful for him being there for me when Angela…

I snap back to reality and try to say it in the nicest possible way.

“Hey belly, it was nice sex and all but oh would you look at the time! It’s time to get the fuck out and don’t fucking make me say it again”

She looked frightened at my sudden change of tone and with me struggling to show my kind face I think she got a bit terrified because of that. What? I thought I look pretty handsome, doesn’t this look kind and handsome?

I got my answer when she turned the other way and ran straight for the door. My housekeeper, Sandy, was already waiting for her there. She showed her the way out but before belly left she screamed “oh and by the way asshole, my name is Karen! Hope you get blue balls from your imaginary wife one day!”

Oh so that’s what her name is, haha I should’ve guessed!

Anyways there will never be a wife so jokes on her.

And I’ll let that slide since she’s the first to say that to my face.

I return to my closet and wear a black shirt from LV and black tie from Burberry then wear black pants and shoes from Gucci.

My dad told me to meet him in an hour, oh look at the time there’s still 45 minutes left, and I decide to go in a bit later, Maybe make my way in 4 hours? Just to anger my dad.

I wear my Rolex watch and walk out with my phone and button my sleeves. My housekeeper follows me out with my blazer and coat.

I reach my big garage and take my time to choose which vehicle to drive. I go with the Rolls-Royce in black today. I get in and take the coat and blazer from Sandy. And give her the nod before she can even say it.

“Right sir, have a good day and I will make sure to replace the bed and everything out of place Keren touched.”

“Excellent work, bye.”

I turn on the car and drive off.

Well I have nothing to do now so I’ll just go for an extra shift. Well it’s not called a shift for me, I get to come in and go whenever I please, although there’s hierarchy in this world I would never put money or status over the doctor's oath, so I still go just as… Angela wanted.

3 hours later…

After my shift I finally decided to meet with my father so here I am under Grayson's headquarters.

I go straight up to the VVIP elevator acknowledging the workers who say their greetings.

I knock on the door in case my mother is in there and they are doing what I just did in the morning. Yep at their old age, I better have good stamina at that age. Father tells me to come in so I do. His eyes twitch when he sees me, oh I’m definitely dead for poking the dragon.

“Hello father before you start, just know at least I still came, I wouldn’t have come if you didn’t say it was important.” I take an apple from his serving plate. “Where’s mother?”

He looks like me, in the morning trying to rearrange his facial expressions, oh god did I look like that? That is indeed scary. Lucas - my father says “yes son after 12 hours you finally show up with your presence but as you said, I do want to discuss something important with you so I will tolerate your behaviour just for today.”

I acknowledge him “proceed”

“And you’re mother is at dinner with her colleagues currently discussing this topic, that woman can never keep a secret”

“That woman is your wife and my mother, just to remind you in case you forgot to deal with it.”

He gives me a look that literally speaks ‘I can't wait for you to have a wife so I can finally say the same thing’

I choke on my apple and chug down water.

After the Kind support from my dad I say, “that will never happen dad so don’t give me that look”

He smirks mischievously and replies “actually, you are, I wanted to break it down to you but since you already pieced together the puzzles there’s no need.”

I laugh “good joke dad, never going to happen, so if there’s nothing important to talk about I’m leaving I have things to do”

I hear him get up and walk to the window “son you don’t really have a choice, your mother and I want you to move on with your life, you’re already 27 years old and if you want me to pass on my inheritance then you will need to settle with a wife and kids before this.”

“Funny, because last time I checked I’m studying medicine, and being a surgeon… not business”

He turned and leaned on the window “yes you are so you are going to be the chairman of the hospital grayson’s and this headquarters will be under your name too, I’ve been training you since young to take over the headquarters so it shouldn’t be a problem”

I huff “okay so what does this have to do with marrying, I can do this without marrying”

He raises his eyebrows “Are you serious? Your younger brother who’s 20 years old has already proposed to his fiancé and is planning to marry in 2 years, you are still stuck on Aria aren’t you?”

Oh no he didn’t.

Believe it or not it was hard to get over her, but I did end up getting over her by blaming her for the death of Angela.

“I forgot to mention Aria is back in town and she seems to be rather interested in coming back in your life”

I see where this is going, he knows my weakness is Aria and is testing me to see what I do.

“I’ll get back to you once I made up my mind.” I say the last word and walk out.

What did I just do? Will I really sacrifice my life just for revenge on Aria?