Mr. Knight, A Billionaire in Love

Chapter 13

Fourteen years Later

Walking through the busy streets of Manhattan, I realised how hard it was for normal people to run across every single day to meet their month's end. It was my first time, walking down the street as somehow I had a flat tyre and I left it on the side of the road with the driver as he was busy changing the tyre and I took it the time to walk to my office building. It was actually my sister, who had taken over my father's company, Knights Corp.

The building stands tall and strong as my father and my younger sister, worked their ass off to keep the company's reputation as it was when my belated grandfather used to have the ownership. I have heard, many tried their best to take the company away from my father, but being the strong headed and stubborn guy, he never failed and showed the people that indeed he was better than his own father when it came to business. Now, it was my sister Amelia Grace Knights, who had always shown interest in our father's business and people believed she was the right person to hold the company after my father. She graduated a year ago from Harvard and has already joined the company and currently, my father is mentoring her and making her used to the world of business.

I believe in my sister. Our whole family believe in her that she will keep up her stance and be more successful than our father. While, our mother, a terrible accident three years ago has left her paralyzed below the waist. Since than she has been wheelchair bound. No doctors have succeeded in making her alright and that was the only burden my father carries around these days.

The Knights Corp

I walked into the building as the people who recognised me scooted away from me or bow down to me because I was also the shareholder of Knights Corp. And people had a misconception that I was going to take over the company after my father, Mr. Xavier Knights. But the truth was, I was far from being the one to takeover as I had hardly any interest upon the company. I had succeeded in becoming a scientist, and I had my own laboratory, where I spend my time, day and night. But usually I would show up in the company to know what was going on or I would generally show up when my presence is questioned.

The elevator's door pinged open and I walked in, with my hands shoved in my pant pockets as I nodded at the woman in the front desk who gave me a bow. "Hello Sir, Good afternoon. Ms. Amelia has been waiting for you," she said and I nodded as I walked directly towards my sister's cabin. People in the office, gave me some way to walk by and as soon as I reached her cabin's door, I stopped in my tracks and looked back only to find everyone curiously staring at me. But as soon as I caught them staring, they looked the other way and focused on their work.

Something was odd.

The woman from the front desk who was following me took the stance to open the door and I got in. At first, I had expected only Amelia but my whole family seemed to be present as I found my father sitting on the couch with a coffee cup in his hand, my mother beside him in her wheelchair and Amelia stood leaning to her desk.

"What's up?" I asked as I hugged my sister, who smiled at me and got back to her place.

"Dad? Mom?" I asked as I took a seat on the empty couch next to him. My dad was in my late fifties but still he looked fit and maintained for his age. He was a sporty person and still had that athletic body all thanks to my mother. My mother looked as beautiful as she was when she was young. Except both of them had aged gracefully and had a few strands of grey hair on their head. They kept it natural and went with their age and never dyed the grey hair out.

Dad took a sip from his cup and mother was quick to snatch the cup away from him as she narrowed her eyes at him. "Enough Xavier. This is your second cup," she complained as she put the cup behind her on a shelf, away from my coffee addicted father. "Honey!" my father groaned but all my mother did was show him her toothy grin to which he sighed and kept a hand on her thigh.