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2024-10-29 19:42:56Shocked by this response the patriarch had only one thing to do.
"Arturo get me out of here," James asked to be wheeled out of the room as he avoided having high blood pressure and subsequently dying before they finally made amends."Chris, what do you mean by No?" Emilia came close to her son's bed to ask as she was in confusion too.Any other person would jump at that offer, hell She would jump on the offer but as the men would have it they always wanted male heirs and never a female to run the empire reason why her father chose her son over her.She was not jealous of her son, never she could ever be, It was for the benefit of them all if he inherited his grandfather's wealth and became the fourth in streak.That way he would be called Chris Lewellyn IV but he seemed stubborn."I want to do this by myself, I don't want to be like my classmates whose parents handed them everything on a platter, I don't want to have to betray others because I think I have the power, and also I want to work my way up and not just handed the finer things in life," he said as he made to stand up but realized he was naked."Where are my clothes?" Chris raised a question."In the dryer, but Arturo would bring you clean ones" Emilia replied."Okay," Chris replied."I'll leave you to rest, may the exhaustion be what is causing you not to want what your grandfather is offering but I urge you to reconsider please son You could bring your father's legacy back to life with this opportunity," she said and left the room.Seated in the spacious room breathing it from the diffuser and being served and attended to felt good but Chris couldn't help but drift back to Liana, These were the kind of things she wanted and because of that, she betrayed him.Should he take up the offer? Besides it was his birthright he thought of it carefully he had every right to these properties.But why now? Why didn't these come when his father was alive? Why didn't his mother make an effort to help out his father when he needed it?These questions and many more made him ponder long and hard and Chris was left in a dilemma, he had no home, so if he left here where was going to, he had no car, and no job what else could he ask for if he accepted his families proposalLooking to the cupboard was the card Liana had given to him, Maybe he should take up on that offer rather than run towards these riches on a good platter for him."Damn! What am I doing? Isn't this what the ladies want?" he asked himself."Maybe I should just take up on this offer and deal with women like Liana, this is all they crave after all," he said to no one in particular."Your clothes sir," Arturo said as he entered the room with new tailored clothes for his newest master."Yeah keep them there thank you" Chris answered back.He turned to the man who looked to be in his mid-forties."What do you think I should do?""Excuse me, sir?" Arthur asked confused."What do you think I should do? Should I accept what my mom and grandfather are saying or should I try to handle this on my own?" he asked."Can I be honest with you young master?" Arturo asked."The name is Chris, but continue" he nudged him to continue."You are headstrong just like your grandfather and trust me when I say he was quite impressed with you, he is a man of dignity and pride and he knows from your response that you will run his company so well after he is gone," Arturo said.Is that so?"Chris asked absent-mindedly."Yes and he knows you won't be easily impressed with offers from lowlife companies, and also it will be a good idea if you take up his offer to build your father's company and pay off the debts he left behind," Arturo proceeded with his advice."If my mom lived I'm such an ambiance why didn't she help my father? I just can't find myself trusting her," he said shaking his head every word he spoke he kept having the mentality that women always loved money and never loved for real, they all were focused on the material aspects of what men had to offer and never from their hearts."Your mother offered many times to help your father but his pride wouldn't let him, your mother also left because your grandfather promised to make your father's life miserable if she didn't leave the average man as he had forbidden her from marrying your father but your mother insisted because she was in love""Your mother has never been one to attach feelings to materialistic things so never judge her because everything she did was for you and your father," he said."I'll leave now young Master, Please have a rest and also a rethink of what I just said," Arturo said and left Chris to his thoughts.______As she wheeled her father to his separate office in the house, she expected to be scolded by her father as usual for her son's behaviour."He is going to come around Father, I promise you" Emilia tried to console her father as she knew Chris had hit a nerve when he spoke to her father that way."No, no I am impressed by the young man you birthed, he is so intelligent and I love that for him," he said with a smile."Really?" she asked shocked by what her father just said.Emilia had become used to always having to take the blame for everything that concerned Hudson, Chris's father.Her father had made it a mental note to torture her life claiming she was the reason why bad things were happening to her so when Chris had the outbursts she was ready to be the scapegoat for it."Yes, he is a promising young man and I know he will come around for sure, he just needs some time," James said taking his daughter off guard.She knew her father was a complicated man but seeing this change of heart she didn't know if it was because of the doctor's verdict on his health or if her father was impressed by Chris's stubbornness."Okay Father, may I be excused " she reacted as she went out to the garden to have some air. She needed it and a cigar as she wanted to think things through.The whole scenario was giving her a hard time accepting that her father might soon pass away, that her husband just passed away and her son was now very headstrong.He was a combination of his father and her father which made it difficult for her to penetrate him as she didn't know how she would be able to tell him she loved him and that what she did was for him and nobody else.________After a few days of recuperation, he decided to go meet his ex-girlfriend who had given him a call that morning.
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