The Consortium's Heir novel Chapter 24

Chapter 24 Darius was finally able to make it to class after a few minutes of walking briskly. Luckily, the lecturer wasn‘t in the class yet which meant that he wasn‘t late. Darius took his seat and waited for the lecturer to arrive. Just a minute later, the lecturer arrived and the lecture started.

There wasn‘t anything unusual in the lecture. After an hour, the lecture ended and everyone started to leave the lecture hall.

As Darius stood up to leave, he heard several gossips flying around about him and his encounter with Pearl Chamberlain. Darius sighed. News really travelled fast. In just an hour the little incident with Pearl had already spread across the whole Business Management department.

Not only that, the way most of his classmates, especially the females, looked at him changed. Before he could notice that some of the females in his class stared at him with pity, but now only disgust and repulsion was visible in their gaze.

“What a pervert. And to think that he was here parading as a pitiful soul.”

“I mean has he no shame. Blatantly grabbing a lady‘s chests in public? How insulting!”

“I thought that even if he was poor he would have some dignity and self respect. But now it seems that I was grossly wrong.”

“I‘m even embarrassed to be in the same class with him.”

“Look at his clothes. Who knows what vile thing he might have done to change his outfits?”

Darius clearly heard all of their snide remarks but paid them no heed. He however paid them no heed. Even when he was poor he never demanded or needed their pity. They had never extended a helping hand to him when he was poor so why should he care about their false pity especially now that he was the head of the Reid consortium?

Being labeled as a pervert by such unimportant people did nothing to affect him so he didn‘t even bother explaining himself. He just walked out of the lecture hall leaving them to their thoughts.

When Darius checked the time on his phone he saw that it was too late for him to search for a new apartment today. He checked his schedule and saw that he was free tomorrow, so he decided to search for a new one tomorrow.

He was already tired from the day‘s events so he decided not to walk back to his dorm. He instead boarded a school transport cab back to his dorm.

When he got to the dorm, he saw that it was empty again. His roommates had probably woken up late and were now taking make–up classes to meet up with the lectures that they missed.

He checked the time again and saw that it was already 6 pm. After taking his bath and changing his outfit, he laid down on his bed exhausted.

He watched several videos on different social media apps to cure his boredom. Just as he was about to fall asleep, a notification flashed across his screen.

Alice?

Darius knew who Alice was. Alice was Sarah‘s roommate. He had seen them together a lot of times when he was still dating Sarah. Although he rarely spoke to her, the few times that he did she had left a very good impression on him. She was one of the few people that did not judge him because of his poverty.

Alice wasn‘t as pretty as Sarah but she was very pretty herself. Although she wasn‘t part of the top 10 beauties in the campus, she was solidly part of the top 20.