Heirs To The City: The Quartet

Chapter Nineteen

Hunter Ambrose

Leaving the penthouse I felt the elevator slink down to the garage level of 220 South Central. As the car stopped, and the doors pinged open I walked out across the smooth concrete floor towards where my vehicles were parked.

Unlocking the G65 next to my SVJ I  pulled open the door and climbed inside. The groups choices in vehicles had originated from Adrian who owned every car on the planet, a few of them were multiples.

Though I knew he had about two dozen of the newest models in gloss black.

It was almost funny considering the fact I only ever bought one after being in Adrian's Brabus over numerous weekends for the past four years. Though I did find the SUV to be one of my most luxurious, and the comfortable vehicles. Starting the engine I drove off past my dozen other vehicles and out of the garage level.

Rain fell over New York, and I almost took it as a sign of the case to come. We typically got two weeks of rain here in New York, and we'd had it almost all month save for a few days over the weekends. Though the past few days, but I knew that was because of the sudden absence of Adrian and Olivia in New York. As one of the people that was pretty much a twin to the dark haired heir to this city I had caught onto the fact that weather often seemed to reflect Adrian's moods, as if all the dark controlled energy he seeped into the world made stormclouds appear over the city.

Passing the tall building that the devil's penthouse residence lay I glanced over at the private sublevel where what I knew was almost ten million dollars worth of cars, one of which was his beloved gloss carbon fibre McLaren P1. There was few cars Adrian wouldn't let anyone drive but his cars that were over a million dollars were a general rule to never take.

Though Olivia had taken his cars on occasion.

Leaving the road, I began heading south towards Ambrose Engineering though the building was fairly easy to spot on fifth avenue. For a billion dollars the tower had been made taller and completely renovated. I then glanced down fifth and I could see Winters Group Tower, the five billion to make the outside of the building, publicly that was what the cost was. It also made more sense that it took five years to build the tower. Adrian even openly funded the construction of the tower over the last year and it was those years that I wondered how he had so much but seemed like he had nothing.

I didn't even believe that his headquarters cost anything less then thirty billion dollars. I also doubted he'd disclosed that to Olivia who had at the time still been getting used to the amount of money and power her boyfriend possessed. It was funny. I'd seen Adrian go to gun ranges and destroy targets for four hours, I'd seen him bloody his fists in boxing rings, and knock a few idiotic fucks out for shit they said to him. Then I watched how he reacted to the situations that Olivia ended up being mixed in with. He was dangerous to begin with but day after day he became controlled while remaining about as volitile as a match with gasoline. There was a chance it would fizzle out, but there was always a chance that the cannister would explode, and when it did hell itself couldn't stop Adrian from doing whatever he fucking pleased.

Parking along the curb I parked and spotted the news crews along the curb before I climbed from the vehicle locking it. I didn't know how my family dealt with this for decades. How even had Adrian who hated attention dealt with all the cameras.

"Mr. Ambrose are the rumours about past Executives true?", "are you going to take action", "how long have you known about the actions of the ex-directors?".

I ignored all of them, and simply walked up the steps while cameras flashed, and blurred questions swirled around me until I entered the building.

Crossing the entryhall with the company logo emblazoned on the back wall behind the front desk clerks, four set sofas were tucked off side from the the lobby with an emphasis on creating ambient lighting and a flattened door which would release should a fire exit be needed.