The Consortium's Heir novel Chapter 39

Chapter 39 Darius took out his phone from his pocket and looked at the caller ID as he walked towards the elevator. He saw he didn‘t know the caller from the ID and decided to ignore the call. He disconnected the phone call and went up to his apartment,

He went to his lounge in the apartment and sat down to relax with a glass of very expensive wine he took out from the deluxe wine cellar in his apartment,

He poured the wine into a glass cup and took a sip from it. He let out a contented sigh as the exquisite taste of the wine hit his taste buds.

Idle, he brought out his phone and decided to go through his unread messages. He had been very busy the previous days so he hadn‘t had much time to check his messages. When he checked his messaging app, he saw that he had a lot of messages.

He quickly checked the messages, but was disappointed when he read the contents of the messages.

Majority of the messages were from his dorm mates who were asking him if he had truly gotten a high paying job and was now living alone or if he was just putting up pretenses. Darius scoffed when he read the messages. He couldn‘t be bothered with what they thought about him. He was no longer on their level anyway. Besides most of them were just asking to know if he had truly gotten a high paying job as if he truly did then they wouldn‘t have anyone to look down on or make them feel better about themselves.

However, it wasn‘t just such messages that he received. There were also several messages from his roommates asking about his well being.

Rudd: [Hi Darius. How have you been now? Where did you go all these while?!]

Greg: (Hey Darius! How have you been man? We all miss you! Rudd misses you the most. Marcus too! Tell us how you doing man!]

Marcus: [Darius! You better treat us to a meal someday soon!]

Darius smiled heartily when he saw the messages. He truly missed his friends. Now that he thought about it he had only gone on outings with them on few occasions. He made a mental note to go out with them soon.

He replied their messages happily with a smile on his face. When he was done, he checked the message that he got from Alice.

Alice: (Hi. I just wanted to know if you have decided on a day for our date yet.)

Darius read the message with a blank expression. If he were honest with himself he still thought it too early to go on a date with Alice. Even though he had gotten a new apartment and his cars, he still had to visit his companies.

However, putting off the date with Alice was not a good idea. It had already been a few days since he promised to inform her of the date. It was almost as if he was avoiding her. He texted Alice his response, sighing.

Darius: [I‘m sorry for not replying earlier. I have been very busy with a lot of things. Once I‘m done I‘ll definitely inform you of the date.]

Darius had just sent out the text message when a notification for another message popped up on his phone screen.

Unknown: [Hi. I called earlier but you didn‘t answer my calls so I decided to text you.]

Darius clicked the message and was redirected to the main chat. His message history with the person was empty which meant that Darius had never come in contact with the person before.

Darius: [Hi. Have we met before?)