RETURN OF THE TRILLIONAIRE: CAGE

RISING FROM THE ASHES

Cage looked at Chloe, waiting for her to speak.

"I… I'd get them right away." Chloe couldn't believe Cage's request, but she trusted him.

"This will blow up in your face." The doctor glared at Cage, but the man turned his face away.

Cage wouldn't be doing this, but he couldn't bear to see Chloe suffer.

In two minutes, Chloe appeared with all the ingredients and handed them over to Cage, along with a bowl. 

Cage mixed the hot charcoal and honey. He dipped the garlic into the mixture and allowed it to cool down for a few seconds.

"This is just trash." The doctor said in morbid disgust.

"Shut up, Doctor Matthias. I don't need your voice ruining the preparation." Chloe snarled in annoyance. 

Cage ignored the banters and applied the mix to the grandfather's body.

"I'll be back, Chloe. I want to get something. Please watch your grandpa after the fifth minute when he wakes up. The first thing you must do is feed him with this mixture."

Cage uttered and stood up to go.

"Wait, Cage. Would he wake up?" Chloe didn't believe this ordinary mix was enough to heal her father.

"If he doesn't wake up, kill doctor Matthias." Cage said with a stern face and moved out of the room.

"Eh? Why should I be the one to die?" The doctor ordered.

" Shut up. Don't you see you pissed him off with all your talks? What if he refused to heal my grandfather?" Chloe glared at the doctor.

"Humph. Using a food ingredients mixture would do nothing to help your grandpa. Miss, let's take this off and apply the normal medicines." Matthias suggested.

"I'll chop off your fingers if I find them on my grandfather." Chloe snarled.

A phone ring caught their attention.

"Excuse me, I have to take this. Watch my father and remember what Doctor Cage said. We wouldn't want to have your license revoked."

Doctor Matthias snorted in annoyance. "That man isn't worthy to be called a doctor. He's a huge scam, and I can't wait for this all to blow up in their faces."

At precisely the fifth minute, the older adult in the bed let out a loud cough, alerting the doctor.

"Grampa Richland. You are finally awake. Did that man's medicine work, or was it just a coincidence?” Matthias thought out loud. 

"Water." The old man on the bed muttered slowly.

"You want water? Hold on."

Matthias quickly rushed to get the man a glass of water.

"Oh. Before you take this water, Grandpa, you must take this medicine. It's called an opioid painkiller. It'd help reduce your pain. I can't bear to give you that deadly concoction. A true doctor doesn't use such methods." Matthias said in a rush.

He quickly fed the grandfather the medicine and gave him some water.

A few seconds later, the old man convulsed on the bed.

" What did you do? " Chloe had just finished taking the call.

Her grandfather, vibrating strangely, shocked her. 

"It's the man's drug. I fed your grandfather, just like. You told me to." Mathew frowned.

He pretended to be worried. 

Meanwhile, Cage stood outside the hotel room with his phone in his ear.

"Hello, Lily. Have you found a good car company?" Cage spoke into the phone.

"Okay then, buy up eighty percent of the company, and I'll be back in the office to relay my plans. Give me twenty minutes." Cage had a slight smile on his face.

It was time to bring Daryl Gray to his knees.

Cage had refused to make known his identity because of people who were after his life. They had killed his parents. Zo could hide his sisters and take him to an orphanage.

Now, he missed them. 

"I'll be seeing them soon." Cage murmured with a sigh.

He made his way back into the hotel room.

"Cage. Something went wrong." Chloe cried when she saw Cage stepping into the room.

"Nothing would go wrong if only you did what I told you." Cage frowned.

Chloe felt a cold air around her.

"It has already happened. Please, can you do something?" Chloe pleaded with him.

Cage sighed, taking the leftover garlic and crunched it into the grandfather's mouth.

"It was that mixture he mixed that caused all this. I did as you told me," Matthias lied through his teeth.

Cage cast a side glance at him but kept quiet. 

After a few seconds, the grandfather on the bed threw up. 

He coughed out a white pill.

Cage picked up the pill from the ground. It was dry.

"You gave him this?" Cage didn't look up from the pill.

" I didn't. I thought…” Matthias tried to speak. 

Chloe interrupted him with a slap. The slap tore his lips as he fell to the ground, bleeding.

"You insolent fool. You could have killed my grandfather."

Chloe's face was red in her fury. 

Cage ignored the drama and fed the remaining mixture to her grandfather.

A few minutes later, black liquid flowed from the old man's skin.

His skin was changing from its ghostly pale color to a bright one.

"When he wakes up, just give him his favorite food, snacks, and drink. He will be back to his usual self." Cage said and looked at Chloe.

He thought her skin was the glassiest he had seen. She was gorgeous.

"Thank you so much, Cage. I don't know what to say. I'm so sorry for taking your time," Chloe said with bunny eyes.

"It wasn't a problem." Cage smiled.

"How? How can this be possible? After all my years of studying medicine, I never heard of this," Matthias exclaimed in surprise.

"You! I'm suing you. You almost killed my father." Chloe poked at her finger in the doctor's chest and growled.

Cage stepped aside. He had a lot of work to do. 

He had to make Carmen and Daryl pay.

Just as Cage was about to leave the hotel, he received a call.

"Young Master. The Williams party will be held in a different venue from their home." Zo's voice sounded from the other side of the phone. 

"Okay, there's no problem ready. Please, get my dress and mask ready, Zo." Cage spoke. 

"Young Master, why do you need a mask?" Zo asked.

"I don't plan to reveal myself immediately. Carmen sent me an email to attend her party. I can't go as the Cage she knows and as the CEO of Marines and Shares. However, I have a plan." Cage had a slight grin on his face as he spoke.

Cage knew Grace coerced Carmen to invite him so she could embarrass him.

Carmen wouldn't have the mind to face him after what she did.

"Okay, Young Master." Zo agreed, and the line went off.

"I don't have a ride, Zo." Cage spoke into the phone, but he realized that the call wasn't ongoing any longer.

He would have to take a taxi.

Just as he was about to step forward, he heard someone scream his name.

"Cage, please wait." Chloe raised her voice.

She could not stop the momentum of her running in time. 

Cage caught her as she crashed into his chest.

"So sturdy," Chloe whispered to herself. 

"What was that?" Cage asked with a raised brow.

"Nothing. I thank you for helping my grandfather. I wanted to ask you for a request." Chloe bowed her head as she spoke in a low tone.

"I'm listening, Chloe," Cage uttered with a smile.

"I want you to marry me." Chloe declared the bomb.

"What! No!" Cage was stunned. He couldn't stop the blush that appeared on his face.

"Listen to me. I need it. Someone poisoned my father because of his properties, and the family is after me too because Grandpa willed all his properties to me," Chloe said sternly.

"So, why do you need me to marry you?" Cage was confused.

"I can't accept the properties without getting married. If they kill Grandpa, they will kick me out and share the properties among themselves." Chloe explained.

Her hands moved frantically as she spoke. 

"I can't just marry you, Chloe. It's too sudden." Cage tried to knock some sense into his best friend.

"It's not forever. You'd sign a contract. I'd divorce you after some time." Chloe looked desperate.

"Why me?" Cage asked.

"You are my best friend." Chloe had a straight look on her face.

Cage rubbed the bridge between his nose. 

"Ok, I'll marry you, but you'll give me some time." 

Cage's lip drew into a thin line. This was going to mess up his plans.

"I already told the family that I'd introduce you next tomorrow." Chloe had a broad smile on her face.

Cage sighed. "I'll get back to you."

Chloe bowed in appreciation and went back to the hotel.

Cage picked up his phone.

"Change of plans, Zo. I wouldn't introduce myself as the CEO now. I'm getting married." Cage clenched his fist as he spoke.