2024-12-10 18:54:09"Nothing dad." He replied further.
Soon enough, a cracking sound came from the door and a young man dressed in a glittering attire stepped into the place with a broad smile hovering on his face as he walked forward.
He bowed immediately his eyes met with the men, not daring to raise his head up even for a single moment.
"This is Mr. Edward." Luts father announced, "he is going to take you round my establishment once you are back to health." He smiled.
"Nice to meet you, Director Edward."
The words seemed to cause some strange reactions, making his face to quickly break up into cold sweat as he shuttered with the words in his mouth.
"Nice to meet you, too young master." He replied with his voice laced with so much respect as he eventually made his way out of the place.
Days turned into week and treated more like a king, and finally, he was okay and it was eventually time for him to leave.
The racing of his heart increased even more as he was taken off in the car by Mr. Edward who seemed to be really frightened of him.
"What about dad and sister?" He inquired with a strange look on his face.
"They are preparing for something big. But I don't think that you should worry about them. I am sure that there is more than enough that they are not here to see you off personally.
But anyways you don't have to worry too much. I will be taking you home with me." He soon announced once again.
They had always been with him during the time that he was sick but when he was eventually discharged, they were nowhere to be found.
Back at him, dropped off and Lut was lost in the state that lay before him. For a while, he could not move out from the point that he was standing, startled by the beautiful scenery that stood before him and it was looking more like a dream.
Even though he already knew that this belonged to him, he could not help it but feel amazed at the exclusive sight of it.
The raising of his heart increased faster and they eventually got into the house and he was led off to his room.
Having the best meal that he had ever had in a really long time, he had a sound from the door that made him jerk off from his steps.
His feet swayed off to the door and he wasn't expecting that his father was the one that was at the door and his lips quickly broke off into laughter.
"Hi dad." He quickly said, trying as hard as he could not to feel awkward.
"Do you like the place?" His father inquired and his eyes almost popped out from his eyes sockets at the sound of its words.
"Like it? I freaking love this place." The thoughts eventually steamed off from his head but he didn't dare to spit the words out from his mouth.
"I like it dad." He quickly replied but it wasn't looking like he was ready to step out from the place anytime soon.
"I wanted to talk to you about something. Can I come in?" He finally said and Lut quickly nodded his head.
His father walked off into the room and eventually sat at the end of the bed. The countenance of his face was more than enough to get him worried but he decided that he was not going to show it.
He could see that his father stopped for a while. Even though it was a blood relation, they were still getting to know each other so the air before them still seemed awkward.
"You wanted to talk to me about something, dad? I'm all ears." He said trying his best to be encouraging.
Mr. James nodded with a smile before turning around once again towards his child and muttering.
"I have been running this business for quite a while but I don't want you to build your wealth on my workings. I want you to build your wealth on your own." He said.
Lut continued to listen to what he was saying. He already had images in his head that his father was rich but he didn't know how rich he was.
"I know that you are already in college since I have had to do a lot of digging up about you and I also know that you have had a pretty rough life too. I am sorry for not being there and I promise to never leave yourself." He continued to say.
"However, the world isn't really as we see it to be and you won't be able to grow stronger if you lie in wait in my hands. It's certain that one day I will be gone and it might be too late." His speech was long while Lut was doing his best to catch up with it.
"So I wanted it to flow into the same line that you are working. I wanted it to be that you make a business on your own from the capital that you are going to be given." He said.
Quitely, he brought out a card from his pocket. Even though it was looking all nice and shining, it was a little bit confusing since he had not seen any card that looked like that before..
He finally took the card off from his father, his eyes still going on through it before quite a multiple time.
The look was silk and premium. Enough to get anyone to shift their gaze in its direction. But as premium and silkily that it was looking, it still didn't pass for a normal bank at.
Even though he was poor in his previous life, at least he knew what an authentic card should look like.
"But why isn't it looking like a normal card dad?" He finally inquired with his father's lips breaking into a smile immediately he heard the words and he said.
"Because it isn't a normal card. It's the purple card that has about a billionaire dollars. Half of that should be used for your business while the remaining half of it should be used for your living expenses." He explained but Lut could hardly hear further of his words as he was still lost for quite a while thinking about the amount that was just mentioned.
"A billionaire?" An enquiry escaped from his lips with his jaws still far apart with so much shock.
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