“You’d be going to the gathering as my girlfriend,” Richardson blurted out after he was done with his chocolates, tossing the paper into a trash can.“Okay,” she nodded, chewing on her sprinkles.“So that means that my hands would be around you a lot. I hope that would not freak you out.”“Oh, no, I’m cool with that. You want to make it believable, right?”“Yes.”“Then I’m okay with that. I am your girlfriend.”“Alright,” he sighed, taking out his phone to call Tom. “Tom?”“Yes young master,” his voice said across the speaker.“So I’ll need your help to make sure that Jennie is prepared for the gathering.”“Sure sir,” the old man accepted. “I’ll be right with you. I can track your gps and appear where you are right now.”Within thirty minutes, an expensive car halted in a park as Tom got out of it.He walked briskly to where the couple stood, joining them with a smile on his face.“Shall we?” he asked, taking Jennie to a separate part of the park to practice some steps with her in cas

“Yeah,” concurred Richardson. He was beginning to enjoy his grandfather’s company. The man was the only father figure in his life.He wondered what would have happened if he had ended up being born as the man’s son and had grown up in a wealthy home.He would not have gone through the troubles he had gone through. However, the past could not be changed and as such he was the man’s grandson.He was the heir to his grandfather’s wealth, it was time to start acting like it and start living like it.A shout made the two men look into the party as they found someone on the ground, bleeding.“How dare you?!” someone yelled out in anger, jumping onto the man on the floor to land several punches on his face.“Should we… do something?” Richardson asked, following his grandfather into the party hall.“No,” Damien responded, nodding to a guard who intervened, taking the two men out of the hall with the cleaners cleaning up the mess which had been caused.Very professional, thought Richardson. Da

“So, did you ever look for your father?” a woman asked while she drank out of her glass. “I didn’t even know anything about him,” Richardson laughed, getting his audience to laugh in response. He was having a good time with the people before him. After the restroom incident, he had decided that making new friends was going to be better than sulking in a corner.He was going to turn his sorrows into joy. There was no need to show the people around that their words were getting to him.“Welcome back home man,” A man tapped him on the back, clinking glasses with him.“Oh thanks, stranger I just met,” he said, laughing with his crowd. If he couldn’t beat them and they couldn’t make him feel bad, then he was going to join them.From time to time, his audience would ask him questions concerning his past and he would answer genuinely. There was no use in lying. He could no longer be haunted by his past.He could tell that they were genuine. Maybe it was the drink or the fact that they

“First off, she’s not a whore, she’s a woman. But what do you know about that when your women have no class,” a gasp spread across the crowd when he had said that. “And secondly, they hit her first, she only returned the favor.”“What did you just say to me?” the man started to walk towards Richardson who got blocked by Tom ready to punch the man out of the hall.“No one is touching Mr Richardson today,” Tom finalized, signaling to his guards to attack if anything went wrong.The men knew what Tom was capable of and they knew who he was under. Giving a reluctant nod, they took their girls to a different section of the hall to lick their broken egos.“Are you okay, Miss Jennie?” Tom asked, looking her over. “Did they touch you?”“She’s okay,” Richardson answered for the woman, holding her close to his side. “I watched the whole thing and intervened when it started getting out of hand.”“If you say so young master,” Tom bowed, leaving with the rest of the guards as the party commenc

Alice watched the two men before her argue but she had nothing to say to them both. She could only marvel at the man before her.Richardson had changed a lot. She could see that in his stride, the way he talked and the way he associated with everyone. He smelled like royalty, it was not hard to get his scent. He was different.Watching him in this new form was like a slap to her face. She had not expected that the broken man she had left in the past would turn out to be the confident man before her.The transformation shocked her. She remembered how poor he was. How he used to dress when they were together but here he was dressed like a trillionaire. He could not even afford basic things before. How had he gone from being able to feed to being this confident rich man before her.His smile, his laugh, everything was loud and attractive. He was looking better than Michael. What was going on?She knew that he had not stolen the suit just like Michael had claimed. It was clear Richa