All Chapters of The Return of the Desired Heir: Chapter 11
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18 chapters
Chapter 11
Neal nodded. "Thank you, I really appreciate this.” Rosa shook her head briefly in disagreement. “You don't need to thank me. It's my job to make sure all your demands are well attended to. You are the heir, and my main purpose is to make sure you are happy and comfortable. You only need to order us around and we will gladly run any errands for you. Same as Moise.”Neal tried to smile. He wondered what Moise would think about that when they eventually saw each other.Amber lightly clapped her hands. "Alright then. While Rosa makes the calls…” She trailed off and fully turned to face Neal. "I'd like to inform you that I have arranged for you to stay in a luxurious room in this villa. I ensured that the best was picked.” She pressed her palms together. "I just hope you'll like it." Neal gaped at the three stunning women before him. He couldn't believe his ears. Could the surprises end? Why will they go through so much stress to arrange a room for him? Just a place where he'd spend his
Chapter 12
Neal had the best night's rest of his life. He had never imagined that the mere act of sleeping could feel so blissful.The next morning, he was awakened by a soft knock on his door.At first, he thought it was Tina, but a mere glance at his surroundings, even through his hazy gaze, reminded him where he was. Besides, Tina never knocked; she banged on doors.After that first knock, ‘Good morning, boss,’ was what followed. Neal walked to the door and pulled the door open. He came face-to-face with the butler.The butler bowed. “Good morning, boss." Neal answered his greeting."I'm here to drop off your outfit for the day,” the butler said as he lightly raised the limpid bag in his hand.Through the bag, Neal could see a black outfit. "Okay," he said and went to collect the bag but the butler shook his head.He insisted on hanging it in his wardrobe. “It's my duty, boss. Please, let me serve you.”Neal opened the door wide and let the butler in. He watched the butler carefully hang hi
Chapter 13
"I am…” He started but was cut off when the woman broke into a fit of laughter as though he had just cracked a joke.She shook her head, still laughing lightly. Abruptly, she stopped laughing and looked at Neal with a sneer.“You do have some nerve, don't you?" She looked Neal up and down, her look condescending. She scoffed, then a short, sudden burst of laughter escaped her again. “You truly were just about to introduce yourself to me?” She laughed again."Who will you be other than the likes of a trash collector? Did you even look in the mirror? How dare you step in here with such a cheap and unbranded outfit and have the guts to stand in my presence?”She clapped her palms together. “If you knew who I was, you'd be trembling in my wake. I am too important to know riffraffs like you so don't even bother with your pathetic introduction.”Neal was truly taken aback. His emotions were tangled. Should he be upset at the woman's degradation of him or laugh at it? If only she knew she w
Chapter 14
Everyone turned to the woman, shocked. What was she saying? They thought as they stared at her in horror.How could she call the CEO an imposter?The man who led the team turned to the woman who had stepped forward to stand beside him. “What do you mean?" He whispered. "What are you talking about?" He rushed out.“There's no need to whisper.” She scowled at Neal. “This man right here is an imposter, a hooligan." She turned to the employees. "Ask him if he didn't just commit a nuisance downstairs a few minutes ago.”Before anyone could even think of asking, she turned back to Neal. “Isn't it? Why don't you speak up now, you riffraff?” She said to the crowd, "He disrespected me.” "You need to stop this,” the lead employee whispered to her, confused.The woman ignored the man and laughed. “You're delusional, do you know that? How can you pretend to be CEO?” She laughed some more. “Really? You think we'll fall for that?" She occasionally looked from the employees in suits to Neal as sh
Chapter 15
Their eyes widened as the blood drained from their faces. For a few seconds, they looked at Joya, somehow expecting her to retract the announcement. To laugh out loud and proclaim that it was all a joke but Joya's expression remained impassive, displeased.“Is this right?” Their voices trembled, barely audible as they whispered amongst themselves.“Can that man truly be the new CEO?“That's what Joya just said but how can that be?” Another answered, looking from Joya to Neal."How can a nobody like this man become the CEO?”"Why didn't he even say so when the woman said he was an imposter?" One of them added angrily. "After all, we had no idea how the CEO would look?”"True. And if we were to use our common sense, it would be only sensible that Mr Moise would be the new CEO. He looks the part." They looked at Neal again and one of them shook his head. “There must be a mistake somewhere." "Perhaps,” another of the employees began slowly. "Mr Moise has fallen out of favor with the Bec
Chapter 16
Moise pulled the phone from his ear with a pale face. He was embarrassed. He wanted the ground to swallow him. But most of all, he was dumbfounded and puzzled. He didn't know how to react to the situation. He couldn't even react at all.It was all confusing. How could Cathy's lowly poor husband be the new CEO? Heck, he cleaned their house. He was their cook. Cathy divorced his loser ass for him. And now…. He's the CEO?It all didn't make sense no matter how much he thought about it. He looked down at his phone. Could Amber have misheard him or misunderstood the situation?Seeing the look on Moise's face, the whispers started again just as their doubts reawakened.“What happened? What did Ms Amber say?" They asked one another but no one had an answer.“He doesn't look good or pleased. Was he really disowned?" "Are they going to throw him out?”Neal didn't need to hear Amber's response. Just by the look on Moise's face, Amber must have starkly put him in his place. He walked closer t
Chapter 17
Cathy sat in her office, head buried in the pile of files on her desk. Her gaze went from her desktop to the files. She scanned the spreadsheet on the desktop before her as she compared figures but she couldn't fully concentrate.She felt restless. She kept cross-checking details over and over again. Finally, she sighed and slammed her pen on the desk. “What's wrong?” She muttered to herself as she ran her fingers through her hair. She rested her back on her seat.She remained like that for a while until her stomach grumbled and she immediately knew why she had been feeling so restless.It was a few hours into the day, and she was already starving. She had been working and that had prevented her from leaving the office to get lunch.But even if she wasn't busy, she couldn't recall the last time she had left her office to go out for lunch. It was now a norm for a properly cooked and delicious meal to be placed on her desk every day by noon.She smiled. Her lunch will arrive soon. She
Chapter 18
Beads of sweat ran down the secretary’s nape and temples at this.“The hospital went bankrupt yesterday due to tax issues,” she said fearfully.She continued, hoping her explanation would lessen her boss' wrath. “Immediately I got the news, I called you to update you but you said you were busy and that nothing was more important at that moment. I tried again after some hours, but you didn't pick up my call.”True to her secretary's words, Cathy recalled that after Neal's call yesterday, Moise had been too hurt. He cried that his injuries were painful. To be able to focus on his care, Cathy had decided that she'd ignore all other calls. To her, there was nothing more important at that time than accompanying Moise to his place and ensuring that he got proper care.In the midst of it all, her secretary had called. After she ended the call, she had made a mental note that she'd call her secretary back. Unfortunately, by the time she finished tending to Moise, she had been so tired that s