The Consortium's Heir novel Chapter 51

Chapter 51

Both Alice and Darius looked up at the person who walked up to their table. Darius had a calm expression when he saw the person, but the same couldn‘t be said for Alice. Her eyes were as wide as saucers.

The person who walked up to their table was Michael Finn, the sole heir of the Finn conglomerate! Michael Finn was Alice‘s classmate in high school two years ago. Back in their high school, Michael Finn was a very popular figure. He always had tons of people looking up to him and following him about. He was handsome, intelligent and rich, so it was no wonder that many people wanted to be his friend.

Alice on the other hand was not so rich. She never even believed herself to be in his level so she didn‘t pay attention to him.

However, rumors started flying that Michael was interested in Alice. Alice thought it to be a lie as she didn’t have anything to offer him, but when she heard that he rejected the advances of several of her schoolmates, she started having wild thoughts. Few weeks later, Michael asked her to be his girlfriend in front of the whole student body. Being the naïve high school girl she was, she accepted his proposal and became his girlfriend. Unfortunately for her, that was the beginning of her nightmares. Michael Finn came from a very established household, where he was pampered and treated as a king, therefore he was very possessive. Only three days into their relationship, he forbade her from speaking to any of her male school mates. Anytime she was caught disobeying his rule, the male in question would suddenly withdraw from the school, and nothing would be heard about him anymore. When her male friends and school mates heard Michael‘s rule, they steered clear from her, isolating her. All of them refused to talk to them anymore, afraid of bringing Michael‘s wrath on themselves. It was a dark period of time for Alice.

Just when she thought it couldn‘t get any worse, he gave her a new rule that forbade her from talking to her female friends. She was only allowed to talk to him and him alone.

The worst thing was that there was no one Alice could turn to for help. Her parents had died in a car accident, leaving her alone in the world with her younger brother who was still too young. She had tried asking her teachers and the police for help, but because the Finn conglomerate was a powerful one, they refused to offer her help. Left with no choice, with the little insurance her parents left her with after their death, she got on a plane with her younger brother and left with no intention of coming back. However what she didn‘t expect was that after two years, she would meet the person who once gave her nightmares on her date with Darius. While she was still staring at Michael with wide eyes, Michael spoke up, jolting her out of her reverie.

“It‘s been a while hasn’t it Alice?” Michael said; his eyes scanning Alice over as he spoke. It

119

Thatto: 51

had only been two years since he last saw her after her departure, yet she was even prettier than she was two years ago. If she was just a budding seed two years ago, she was now a fully blossomed flower.