A FORTUNE IN FURY: THE SECRET TRILLIONAIRE HEIR

Chapter 7

It felt like earth shattering secrets kept tumbling out of Anthony's mouth. Sir Brooks had been poisoned?

Sir Brooks was a powerful man. And like all powerful men, he had a whole team of bodyguards who followed him everywhere and even security cameras in whatever places he stayed in. 

Only people he trusted made his food and picked out his wine. For him to have been poisoned, that meant it was someone he really really trusted. 

Someone very close to him. Perhaps even a member of his own family. 

Anthony's long legs were uncrossed azs he switched positions and crossed his legs again. “I will not utter the words that I know you are thinking right now, but yes, that is the suspicion. That is why his current condition must remain secret.”

“I am only handing you this information because Sir Brooks himself trusted you enough to make you the heir to his entire chain of companies, to everything he holds dear. He trusted you enough to even campaign for you, telling me why he wanted things to be this way. I have no doubt you will not disappoint me, Adrian.”

Adrian's head lolled forward into his hands as he considered everything he was hearing. He couldn't…he couldn't swallow all this information so easily. It was all so hard to believe. Especially the fact that this was happening to him.

Nothing ever happened to Adrian or in his life, he was always just there, not exactly cruising through life, but not having anything life-changing happen either. 

And that helped him decide at that moment. He took in a bracing breath and then lifted his head to stare Anthony right in the eye.

“So what…what do you need me to do?”

Anthony nodded his head with a hint of pride and admiration at the strength and courage Adrian was showing in the face of all this. He wanted to help the young man soar higher than anyone ever did. He wanted the both of them to attain impossible heights.

“I need you to sign some documents, Adrian, saying that you accept to become the heir of Brooks Castle and Castle, but only in secret for a period of six months at least.”

Adrian blinked. “Is that all?”

Anthony stood up, his long length towering over Adrian, until Adrian stood as well. Adrian was no small man at over six feet.

“No, that is not all, Young Master. That is merely the beginning. This is merely the beginning.”

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Adrian stepped out of the same Skyscraper he had been denied entrance to feeling very different. His soul felt swapped out and he couldn't believe that everything had changed so rapidly in his life while outside still looked and felt the same. 

He was the heir to Brooks Castle and Castle. He was protecting Sir Brooks too. And the most amazing news he had heard all day: Sir Brooks was still alive!

He felt like jumping up and down and he even laughed out loud a little, like a maniac until a few prissy looking suit and tie workers started looking at him condescendingly before he calmed down. 

He looked at the time on his phone screen. It was well past 12 O’clock and he hadn't been around for breakfast at the house, and he couldn't miss lunch. He hailed a cab, grateful for the money in his bank account, even if whatever he used it for had to be a secret since he couldn't let his new identity and status slip out to anyone else.

He felt a lightness in the spring of his steps as he went towards the supermarket where his girlfriend worked. He had the opportunity to meet her there every time he came out to shop and they often grabbed a coffee together or went shopping for the groceries around the supermarket together.

He was really looking forward to seeing her. He couldn't believe the good luck that had come to him and he knew he couldn't tell her in words, but after today, he would buy her an expensive necklace and take her out to a nice dinner in a nice restaurant.

They didn't have to only eat take outs together anymore. He wore a huge smile on his face as he pushed open the supermarket's heavy door.

His girlfriend was always at the first counter in the back. 

“Hi, Nana.” Nana was his girlfriend's colleague who manned the second check out counter closer to the exit.

“Sandra is at her usual spot, right?” he asked Nana, already heading to cut through the canned food aisle to reach his girlfriend, Sandra. 

Nana sprang up on her feet like there had been hot coal under her butt. “No, no, she's not there. Sandra went out to get us something to eat.”

Adrian stopped and turned back to her with a slight frown. But it wasn't time yet for their lunch break.

Nana chuckled nervously. “Well, I was hungry and I asked her to help me get something to eat at the restaurant down the road. I'm not sure when she'll be back.”

Adrian sighed. It would delay him a little bit but he would wait. He had not seen Sandra or spoken to her in a little bit. On his side it was because he had been overwhelmed with duties at the house since Sir Brooks fell ill and then they told them he was dead. On Sandra's side, he had guessed it was because she was stressed out at work.

“I'll wait for her then.” He said to Nana. 

Nana laughed lightly again, wringing her hands in front of her. “No, I don't think you should wait for her. She said she might take a while to get our orders. She's also getting food for the rest of us. Even the security guys too.”

Adrian frowned. That really didn't sound like the girlfriend he knew. She hated going on errands, preferring that he ordered their food or that he went to pick it up himself.

She barely ran errands for things she herself needed so why would she start now?

“Are you sure she's okay, Nana?” A worried Adrian asked, going closer to Nana's counter and leaning beside the cash register. 

Nana nodded. “Yes, she's fine,” she offered him a small amount. If Adrian didn't know better, he would say she was being extra fidgety today. Nana was a shy girl and she didn't talk very much, unlike his girlfriend. 

He nodded, about to leave when he heard a tinkle of a laugh. He knew that laugh anywhere. It was how Sandra laughed. 

Throwing Nana a suspicious, hurt look that she had lied to him, he approached the area the sound had come from.

He turned into an aisle for books and stationery materials and there Sandra was.

She was kissing another man.