Chapter 40
Pulau Ujong, Singapore
Rising Moon Technologies
William Lee was the youngest billionaire in the world, a genius when it came to technology, and held countless patents for things from tech to applications, software, and medical devices. Odds were you used one of his patents daily without even realizing it regardless of what country you were in. Being a homeless orphan from the streets, he was victim to the old saying ‘money changes people’ and found himself in as many tabloids as he did business, tech, and finance magazines; his playboy nature made every outing a photogs dream.
The glitz and glamour was just that though.
At twenty-three years old, William found himself being targeted more so than usual by the unfriendly types that wanted a piece of his business. He caved and hired private security, and that team was headed by Lula Yasuhiro.
The team was still in place, but Lula was out.
Amusingly enough, Will continued paying her wages as if she was still on the team. He couldn’t let her go off without him, it was a control thing he told himself, but truth was it was guilt that caused him to pay.
Emotions got involved, and that was something Will never got over and Lula refused to speak of.
“You know how my sister is,” Lucien said. “Everything I hear you record, regardless of saying you don’t.”
That was true.
Will had hoped Lula would have mentioned him, would need him or something and he could swoop in and save her as she had done for him so many times before.
But his name never left Lula’s lips and he knew it wouldn’t.
“Aren’t you dating a singer this month?” Lucien asked, knowingly.
“I don’t know, is that what the tabloids are saying?” Will asked. “I can never keep up. Why are you all in South Korea? That usually isn’t your brother’s cup of tea, as they say.”
Lucien chuckled; he saw it for what it was. “A job, obviously. One that was supposed to be a walk in the park but is turning out to be much more cloak and dagger than we thought it’d be. They’re nice kids, but I fear they’re going to get us killed.”
Will groaned. “I hate how accepting of that you are, Luci.”
“It’s part of the job.”
“A stupid part,” Will grumbled. “You Yasuhiros are insane. How you can so readily throw your life away for another simply because they are paying you makes no sense!”
Lucien laughed. “Yes, I know. But you needed that same crazy protection, and still do. Don’t forget that. You only have a problem with it because of where your heart truly lies. I’ll let you know what I find out when Kita is done processing the room. I’m going to take our client back to the hotel and take nap; my head is splitting still. Is there anything else?”
Will shook his head. “No. Just let me know what your personality challenged brother finds out… If you need anything, if she needs anything, please let me know. I could never live with myself if something happened because she, you, were too bloody stubborn to ask for help.”
Lucien shook his head. “You really have to stop flirting with me when you’re in love with my sister. It sends some very mixed signals,” he teased with a wink before disconnecting the video call.
“Yeah, I know,” Will grumbled under his breath, and watched the data transmit from Lucien’s rebooted hearing implants to the system.
There was a knock at the door before his assistant popped his head inside.
“Sir, are you coming back to the board meeting?” he asked.
When Will’s mobile phone notified him of a critical failure in Lucien’s implants, he up and ran from the boardroom without telling the Board where he was going or why. They wouldn’t understand since they were money men, and the beta testing for what they were calling InvisiHear had concluded months ago and was ready for production.
Lucien was different and was excluded from the beta trial, he just didn’t know it. What he and the Board also didn’t know was that InvisiHear was solely created to give Lula Yasuhiro’s precious baby brother a chance at hearing normally. It was the first medical invention William Lee had attempted, and it snowballed after testing proved it was possible to give those born deaf normal hearing.
“Boss?” Jo Sung pressed. “The Board of Directors?”
Will groaned. “As long as I hold sixty-nine percent of the company’s shares, I don’t give a damn what they want this time. So why bother with the dog and pony show?”
Jo Sung nodded his understanding. “Sir, that is the reason for the meeting. They are stating it is a violation and that you cannot hold more than fifty-one percent.”
“Fifty-one, sixty-nine, what’s the difference?” Will absently asked as he pushed a digital filter out to the field for Lucien that he just created.
“Sir, they are going to file court action against you to take control of the controlling vote if you don’t remedy this,” Jo Sung warned.
Will whined in irritation then got to his feet and headed from his lab with his assistant following. “What is it they want specifically? It isn’t my shares, this I know. They want what?”
That was a good question, and not something Will enjoyed about the business anymore. It was easy when it was just him in abandoned buildings programming and hacking, staying away from law enforcement and government agencies that were trying to track him.
When he decided to legitimize what he was doing, his business grew faster than he could keep up. Hiring a Board of Directors that would oversee the business aspect while Will did what he did best he thought was the right way to go about it.
But that only proved to be a temporary fix.
Money didn’t interest him once he had it.
Changing the world got boring after he did it.
And his passion was quickly slipping away from him.
It wasn’t until an attempted kidnapping when he went for a jog to clear his head that things were no longer boring.
The Board of Directors demanded he get a security team that would shadow him at all times. As much as he protested it, when the tall, leggy brunette with the hazel green eyes and freckles walked in and told him what he was going to be doing, he readily agreed that he needed protection.
Little did he know, it was his heart would be needing the most protection of all.
Log in with Google Account
Chapters
Favorite
Settings
