The Consortium’s Heir by Benjamin_Jnr

Chapter 81

The caller was Helen!

It had been close to two weeks since Darius rescued Helen from Luke's vile actions. After taking her to her dorm, she kissed him on the lips

and ran off before he could even react.

After that day, he had

tried to get in touch with her; not because of the kiss, but because he wanted to know if she was doing alright as he guessed that she might

have gotten a huge scare.

Contrary to his expectations, Helen refused to pick any of his calls at all! Not only that, she totall y refused any meeting with him at all,

leaving Darius at a total loss on what to do. She was compl etely avoiding him.

Darius had no choice but to leave her for the time being. He had no

idea why she was avoiding him, but he respected her choice. He still had a lot of things to do, so he couldn't spend his whole time thinking

about Helen's refusal to meet with him.

Therefore one could imagine how surprised he was when he saw that the caller was Helen. He di d not expect her to contact him so soon.

"Hello, Darius."

Helen greeted in a low but audible voice. She had decided to call Darius because she felt incredi bly

guilty about how she had been ignoring him.

"Hi, Helen." Darius answered. There was a tinge of impatience in his voice lowever. He still had se

veral matters to overlook and documents regarding his company to sign. He was

incredibly busy at that moment and therefore he was not in the mood to exchange pleasantries and

engage in small talk with Helen.

"Are you busy right now?” Helen asked hesitantly. She could hear the impatience in Darius' voice and

being a very

observant person, she guessed that Darius was greatly occupied at the moment. As such, she ski pped

all pleasantries and went straight to the reason why she called

Darius.

"Would you be willing to have a meal with me next week?” Helen asked timidly. Her heart was be ating

very rapidly at that moment. She was ninety percent sure that Darius would decline her invi tation,

especially after she ignored him for weeks.

"I don't know yet." Darius answered honestly. He was too busy right now to create time for a me et up

with Helen. It was only after he concluded his affairs here that he would be able to meet u p and have a

meal with her.

"Oh. Alright." Helen responded dejectedly. Now that she thought about it, avoiding him all these while

wasn't a reasonable thing to do. She should have at least met with him and told him that t he kiss she

gave him was done out of impulse. That way, the atmosphere between them wouldn’ t be so weird now.

Darius heard Helen's dejected voice and sighed softly. Although he bore no romantic feelings to words

her, he was still very worried about her well being. Sadly, he was too busy to meet up with her.

However, not wanting to disappoint Helen and make her feel sad, he decided to compromis e

"I'll be busy for some time, but I assure you that once I'm done I'll give you a call regarding that meal."

Darius said,

Helen nearly jumped up in joy at Darius' words, but forced herself to remain calm. Even then, the re

was a very huge smile on her face, "Certainly!" Helen replied happily.

Darius smiled softly at her happy response before disconnecting the phone call.

Once the phone call was disconnected, Helen threw her phone on the bed before jumping up se veral

times in her dorm room. She was incredibly happy at that moment,

Why did she kiss Darius? Wasn't it because she had already fallen for him?

Are you kidding? Which girl in her right senses wouldn't fall for Darius?

He had saved her twice, and was willing to spend a huge sum of money for her when they were s till

strangers. How many men were willing to do that now without demanding something in return?

He was not only was tall, handsome and wealthy, he was also very kind! He wasn't like the previo us men she had met before who looked

down on her because of her poor background and chased after her with money.

In other words, Darius was her dream man and prince charming.

She knocked herself hard on the head for taking so long to come to this realization. What if som eone else had stolen Darius' heart during

the time she was avoiding him? How would she live wit h that then?

Helen knew that now was not the time

to be passive anymore. If she didn't up her game, then a perfect guy like Darius would be snatch ed away by other vixens!

Meanwhile in his office, Darius sneezed loudly at that moment. He wiped his nose with his handk erchief and furrowed his eyebrows.

Someone must definitely be gossiping about him at that moment; but as it was impossible for hi m to know who, he turned his attention back

to the documents on his table and continued worki ng.

The next eight hours flew by, and Darius was completely immersed in his work. The only time he paused was to eat his lunch. Aside from

that, he was completely focused on his work. He just fini shed signing another document when he heard a knock on his office door.

"Come in." Darius said.

The door opened and Erin walked in. She was still as beautiful as ever, but her radiance was not enough to hide the dark circles that were

forming under her eyes. As the new company was seve rely understaffed, even with Darius' help, Erin still found herself doing three times the

work Dariu s did.

Erin greeted Darius with a light bow before speaking "Mr. Rejd, you have a visitor."