The Consortium's Heir

Chapter 170

Darius didn’t want to spare Frederica even a single look. He could see her excitement and intentions, especially when her gaze was trained on him. He wanted to leave, and so he did.

He didn’t expect her to appear before him and stop him from leaving. He sighed. “Is there anything else. you need from me, Miss Kuster?”

Frederica’s face became nervous when she heard him address her so formally. She started to tremble and sounded nervous as she said, “Mr. Reid, I want to buy you a meal as thanks for sharing some of your wealth with me. I’m also grateful that you didn’t ask me to repay you in any way, not even with my body.” She bowed her head.

Darius was unmoved. He knew what she meant, but he wasn’t interested. Therefore, he said coldly, “I’m not going to eat with you, and I have my reasons. Firstly, I need you to repay me–by achieving what I wanted you to. Secondly, as I said earlier, I don’t have much time.”

When he was done saying what he wanted to, he didn’t move. It wasn’t because he didn’t want to- Frederica didn’t seem to show any intention of budging. He sighed and started to look disappointed. “I honestly wanted to help you because you’re a smart woman.”

He was about to summon the security guards to do their jobs when Frederica spoke up.

“I’m sorry, and I didn’t mean to make you mad. I really just wanted to thank you, but I’ll leave now that I know you’re offended.” After that, she fled.

feeling satisfied. He put his hands behind his back and turned to

had already regained her composure and was like her usual self. She smiled and said, “Nothing. It just occurred to me that things have been going smoothly lately. While you were speaking, Zack sent me a message saying that all of their highest–earning assets have

happy he was. He started walking, and he soon arrived at his destination–his office. The

had been hiding in the cabinet was no longer there. Suddenly, Darius couldn’t help. thinking about how lucky he was. If he’d turned up just

person in the cabinet was a woman! She was trying to escape, but it was obvious that she’d failed, even if she didn’t know it

scare her and make her fall out of the window if he were to open the door, so he didn’t. He stood at

but she could guess. Her eyes lit up, and she kept her lips tightly pursed. She pulled

head and typed a message on

Have someone get ready to catch her downstairs so

was referring to was a woman! This was the second time on the same day that he’d gone against his principles for al woman. This worried her, but she still did as she

could sense her negative emotions, but it wasn’t his main concern currently. He wanted to know who was in his office, and the need

why this was happening, but he felt it was probably similar to

as possible. He stayed like this until

Darius move. He stretched his arms and pushed the door open as if nothing had happened. Then, he spoke to Erin, pretending to be talking about something he wanted. “I need the hospital’s recent financials and patient feedback.“He clearly heard the woman’s breathing speed up after he said this. This made him think that