Chapter 33:

Ethan Black,

A few days later,

Location: Black industries.

I sat at my desk, engrossed in the countless reports scattered all around me. The luxurious office, adorned with tasteful artwork and polished furniture, seemed to fade away as I delved deeper into the number of reports I had to go through because of my leave of absence from the company.

I was slowly fitting back in my seat of becoming the undisputed CEO of Blacks Industries, a successful billionaire drowning in responsibilities, that's who I was.

Everything else had to come second in my life.

As the late afternoon sun peered through the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting a warm glow over the room, my mind wrestled with the never-ending demands of the corporate world. It was in this whirlwind of thoughts that a sudden knock at my office door caught my attention.

"Come in," I called, my voice tinged with annoyance at the interruption, I briefly looked up to see who was disturbing me even after I strictly told Ava no visitors to