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Aftermath of the Conversation:
Vyre stood in the dining hall, the echoes of his father’s words lingering in the air like a heavy fog. His heart pulsed with a quiet, smoldering determination. The tension in the room had been palpable—his father’s cold dismissal of Vyre’s ambition, his belief that success was tied to control, not just achievement.
As he walked away from the table, Vyre’s mind buzzed with a single thought: I will prove him wrong.
The weight of the legacy his father had built, the empire of concrete and glass, felt suffocating. His father’s voice, detached and impersonal, echoed in his head. "You’ll understand when you’re ready."
But Vyre wasn’t ready to bend to that old way of thinking. He had created something for himself—his own success, his own empire, built on numbers, strategy, and the quiet art of investment. His path was his own, not defined by what his father had left behind.
He walked into his office, the floor-to-ceiling windows showing a sprawling city below, a testament to everything he had achieved so far. But there was something cold in the gleaming steel and glass—the emptiness of what it represented.
His father’s shadow still loomed over him, and it gnawed at him in the quiet moments, those fleeting seconds when Vyre wasn’t consumed by work or the constant buzz of his company.
Later that evening, in his office:
Vyre stood by the window, his thoughts drifting back to the conversation. The weight of the shares—his father’s final offer—sat heavily on his desk. He didn’t need them. He wouldn’t take them.
But as the city lights twinkled below, Vyre realized that part of him had been yearning for something more, something beyond the empire he had built alone. Was it pride that kept him away from his father’s world, or was it fear? Fear of becoming like the man who had always been distant, who had defined success only by ownership and control.
Vyre’s phone buzzed, snapping him out of his reverie. The message was from his mother: Don’t let his silence define you, Vyre. Find your own voice.
He stared at the message for a long moment, feeling the weight of her words. Then, he turned his attention back to the shares sitting on his desk. They were more than just pieces of paper. They were a legacy, a connection, and yet they were a chain—one he didn’t want to be bound by.
The aftermath was not just about the business. It was about identity. Vyre wasn’t just trying to succeed. He was trying to break free from the shadows of a man who had loved him in his own, cold way, but had never truly
understood him.
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paulina
I keep refreshing the page but still no new chapter, please update soon!
2024-12-26
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