All Chapters of THE BILLIONAIRE FORBIDDEN ASSISTANT : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Elliot's POV I made it halfway down the hall when I heard shouting from the lobby. My father's voice carried through the entire floor and everyone stopped working to listen. "I am here to see my son," James Hayes said loud enough for the whole building to hear. "Elliot James Hayes. I know he works on this floor." The security guard at the reception desk looked panicked. "Sir I need you to lower your voice or I'll have to ask you to leave." "I'm not leaving without my son," my father said. "Now where is he?" I stopped walking because my legs wouldn't move anymore. Everyone on the floor was staring toward the lobby and then slowly their heads started turning toward me. They were putting it together, Hayes. My last name was Hayes. "Just tell me where he is," my father said getting louder. I took a deep breath then walked toward the lobby before this got worse. When I came around the corner my father saw me and his face changed from angry to victorious. "There you are," he said. "

Aiden's POV I sat at the head of the conference table staring at nothing while Richard kept talking. His voice sounded far away like I was underwater, all I could think about was Elliot's face when his father said his real name. "Aiden are you even listening?" Richard asked. I looked up to see every board member staring at me. "What?" "I asked if you have anything to say in your defense," Richard said while looking smug. "Before we continue with the vote." "No," I said because what was there to say. He was right, my judgment was compromised. I let someone into my life who was lying from day one and I was too blind to see it. "Very well," Richard said then turned to Vivian who was sitting at the other end of the table. "Ms Stone you said you have additional evidence to present." "I do," Vivian said while standing up. She opened her folder and pulled out papers that she passed around the table. "These documents show the full extent of Elliot Hayes's deception." I looked down at

Elliot's POV Liam walked into the boardroom two minutes later carrying a laptop and a folder. He looked at me then at Aiden then at my father who was glaring at him from across the room. "You're making a mistake," my father said to Liam. "Helping him will have consequences." "I don't care," Liam said then walked to the board table and set down his laptop. "I have everything here. Bank records showing transfers from Blackwood Tech accounts to offshore accounts in Vivian Stone's name. Dating back two years." "Let me see that," Margaret said while standing up. She walked over and looked at Liam's screen. Her face got serious as she scrolled through the documents. "This needs to be verified," she said. "But if it's real then we have a serious problem." "It's not real," Vivian said but her voice shook a little. "He fabricated those documents to protect his brother." "We can verify them easily enough," another board member said. "Call our accounting department. Have them check the ac

Elliot's POV I caught up to Aiden in his office where he was throwing things into a cardboard box. Files and photos and awards he had earned over the years all getting tossed in without any care. His hands were shaking but his face was stone. "Aiden," I said from the doorway. He didn't look up. "Get out." "I need to explain," I said while walking into the office. "Please just give me five minutes." "I don't want your explanations," he said while grabbing more things from his desk. "I don't want your apologies. I just want you gone." "You don't mean that," I said. "Yes I do," he said finally looking at me. His eyes were red like he had been crying but his voice was hard. "Everything between us was based on lies Elliot.” "Not all of it," I said. "My feelings for you were real." "Were they?" he asked while walking closer. "Because from where I'm standing it looks like you used me. "That's not true," I said. "I didn't even know my family had history with your company until toda

Aiden's Pov I sat in my apartment with all the lights off and the city glowed outside my windows like a million small fires. The glass of whiskey in my hand was warm now because I had been holding it for an hour without taking a single sip. My brain would not stop replaying the moment I fired Elliot. The way his eyes went wide first like he could not believe what I was saying and then how his whole face just collapsed. I did that to him and I did it in front of everyone because I wanted them to see that I was still in control. But I was not in control anymore and maybe I never had been. My phone buzzed on the table and I looked at the screen. Dad was calling again and this was the fifth time tonight. I watched it ring until it went to voicemail and then a minute later it buzzed with a text. "Answer your phone. We need to discuss the transition." I threw the phone across the room and it hit the couch. The transition meant Vivian taking over my company and me having nothing. Dad g