THE CEO AND ME!

Kian kissed his wife's forehead and then stormed out of the house.

The place was a secluded one so there was no need to get worried about the paparazzi, coming out for them. They would not drive two hours away from the city to get a glimpse of the man who had lost his everything.

Inside the house, Tinsley presence made him forget about everything else. Her soothing presence kept his mind away from pondering about all that he had lost and was left with nothing.

And outside, looking at the people, walking down the street for work, made him feel down.

He had to start...needed to come up with something or the other thing. He knew that he could not settle for anything less than what he had before.

He was an ambitious man and would not settle for anything downgraded. It was not only about him...it was also about them who thought all that he had or built before was because of Valeria.

She handed him their family oil business and the rest followed from there.

But what they did not know was that what Valeria transferred to him was a failing oil business with no oil cartel.

The company was running out of oil stock and was bankrupt after Mr Wilson's death.

He was only nineteen when he transformed the almost bankrupt corporation to on its way to making billions in the next year, right after he joined.

Everyone had doubts about him, being so young. He graduated from Standford early with a major in coding and was planning to open up a software firm.

He had sold his first real-time operating system to a Japanese company in their college project and earned a million dollars.

When he got to know about his aunt's failing business, spent those millions to buy the major stocks of Wilson Oil and Industries.

And thus began his career in corporate business. When the success came early, the workload increase, and he had to drop his tech firm for a while to look after the present industry.

At twenty-one years of age, Kian finally mustered up the courage to inform his aunt that her company was in stable format and that he wanted to go back to his work where he had left for her.

But Valeria had other plans for the boy so she declared him to be her heir to the Wilson fortune and made him the CEO, bounding him to the company for life.

She gave him Madison Flow, five years older than him as his assistant. The woman was smart and intelligent and family-oriented.

With a lot of reluctance, Kian accepted the post of CEO for Wilson Oil and Industries after Valeria brainwashed him how she could not trust anyone but him in handling her husband's legacy ...which was now his too for he had the Wilson name as his.

With a rough start, Madison and he got to be the best boss and secretary pair in five years, craking every stock and deal in the States.

Seven years later, Wilson Oil and Industries became a global Oil seller and Kian earned his first billion dollars...making him the youngest billionaire of Richland.

He was everywhere...in every magazine front page but still, whenever he got the free time, he turned to his MacBook for coding a new software.

Even though it was not easy with his schedule being tight all the time, it became impossible to concentrate on it and with time, he decided to drop it altogether.

And to this moment, he regretted it as he was doing right then. He had the skills, the talent and knowledge but lacked resources.

He had a few ideas in his mind about where he could start but then was not sure if it would be market viable or not.

In a tight situation like his, he could not take the risk of losing. He needed to succeed in his first strike and it had to be quick.

So first he needed to think of the best idea to code for and then lookout for a rich firm to sell it off to earn his first millions.

It would be a start to buy a place and employ a few workers to get started on the bigger idea to go public with his own brand of software.

So far, it seemed like a good plan but then he needed to do research on which gigantic firm had a technical defect.

It seemed like a big work load for every big firm he knew had their own tech team to look after so what he was going to do.

Walking down the street, with hands in his jeans pocket, casually, he could not falter the eyes of the young women, staring at him, blushing.

He narrowed his eyes and continued walking. He was not used to this...used to walking like he had nothing to work upon.

If it were to be in the past, he would have been busy in a meeting or preparing for one after the first-morning board discussion.

But first, he decided to grab breakfast for himself and his wife. They had no food stock back at home.

And knowing the history of Tinsley, she must have never done grocery shopping so now he had to cater for that too.

He could ask Madison's help with that and so he headed inside the same cafe, they had earlier breakfast on.

The old woman, with white hair and thin lips, recognized his face and smiled at him.

"One whipped coffee and black coffee, one vanilla cake."

Kian dropped his order, remembering whipped coffee was her favourite. She told him in the car, how her mother prevented her from drinking it often for maintaining her figure.

Thinking of her naive pretty face, made him smile. The woman came up with his order. He paid her with the card.

"Can you mind packing the coffee and cake?? It's for my wife at home."

"Of course, son. You must love her so much."

The old woman, laughed, walking away to pack leaving him wondering if he loved his wife??

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