The Billionaire Darkness

Chapter Twenty-Two

As the elevator doors to One57 opened I walked into my garage and unlocked my Portofino before sliding into the front seat of the car and pressed the start button.

For a Ferrari it was definitely one of the more subtle models which I was thankful for considering I was going into Queens to visit my parents graves.

Driving up out of the garage I sped off towards Queens one hand resting on the steering wheel while another was supporting my face and resting on the side of the door.

New York was also just starting to get busy and I didn't entirely want it to be like this too early because I had to do a few things today. Mostly revolving around being anti social though I may go down to the marina today it would depend on what the plan is with the boys.

As I neared the edge of Upper East Side, I parked by a boutique flower shop and went inside and began scanning the selection of flowers before choosing a freshly watered blood red rose which was almost ironic considering where I was going after I had paid for it.

Getting to the till I set down a ten-dollar bill knowing that it was more then enough for what I was buying. I then walked out gracing the person behind the counter with a small smile before walking out and heading back to my car and sliding into the driver seat while placing the rose wrapped in brown wax paper in the passenger footwell, before speeding off.

Getting into Queens nearly half an hour later I drove slowly along the streets towards the cemetery where my parents had been buried over two years ago. The memories came back from it all. Standing dressed in a suit wishing and hoping that all the pain that I had felt in that moment could just dissipate and for the most part it had replaced by the anger I felt towards my father for taking me away from my mother at the age of eight and now being the reason even in death why my sister lived three thousand miles away across the country in Los Angeles.

Parking a block away I shut off the car and slid out pulling the long black pea coat I wore around me tighter buttoning the top two buttons before walking through the Autumn affected plain.

Whether it was because of the normal cryptic ominous feeling to the place that it was or the reminiscence of the place I didn't really know and I didn't particularly wish to find out.

Getting to the graves of my parents I stopped and stared between the two pieces of limestone that bared my parent's names and then the length of their lives. I had always thought they never got to live long enough, and were taken too early from both me and Kate, and the rest of our family.

Staring at the places where they were I would have liked to imagine that they were here at times guiding me but I knew damn well that if my parents were here, I would have gotten my ass chewed out for the amount of speeding, drinking, and partying I did.

Maybe that was why I got such vicious nightmares?

I then looked between the two stones once again and laid the rose down between them before stepping back and looking at the rose wondering what it would be like to be held by my mother again, or if my dad would finally be proud of who I had become.

One can only hope.

Turning I then let out a sigh, and walked off back towards my car with my hands in my pockets.

Slipping into the Ferrari I drove off in hopes of getting to the Marina by one PM so that I could see the arrival of my first ever yacht.

As the child of the two at the time richest people in New York I wanted to at least make it clear that I intended to take that title with a grain of salt, but I loved boats and I wanted to do something like this.