Rise Of The Disgraced Heir

After Jas had stormed off from the cafe, Ian went through the day robotically, completing his duties without saying much.

Even when Seth and Camilla came over to pester him, he remained emotionless, making Camilla and Seth worry.

"Join us for dinner." Camilla told Seth as they went their separate ways at the elevator.

"Are you worried about him?" Seth asked as glanced at Ian.

The other assistant had a blank look as he stared out into the distance.

"Yeah, he wasn't like this last time." Camilla said with a frown.

"Last time?" Seth asked as the elevator doors opened.. 

"I'll tell you later. Come over even before dinner. I'm afraid of leaving Ian alone." Camilla said as she dragged Ian into the CEOs elevator.

"Ian, what's wrong?" Camilla said with a frown as she glanced at her friend. 

"It's nothing." Ian said as he shook his head.

The rest of the elevator ride was silent as Camilla left Ian alone to his thoughts. 

When they finally made it to the parking area, John quickly spotted Ian's odd demeanor. He gave Camilla a questioning look, to which she simply shook her head, signaling him not to ask.

John, who was normally super chatty, remained silent the whole drive home. He would occasionally glance at Ian to check if the assistant was alright but he never asked Ian anything. 

"No wonder you're a driver to the Reyes Family." Camila said as she noticed that Ian had fallen asleep in the back seat. 

"What do you mean?" John asked as he glanced at Camilla.

"Most people would have pestered Ian for answers, but you quickly understood that he simply wanted silence." Camilla pointed out. "Even I tried to reach out to him."

John laughed and shook his head.

"The only reason I'm not pestering the bastard for answers is because I'm sure you've already tried asking him." John explained. "Add to that the fact that he looked extremely exhausted when you guys arrived at the basement parking lot."

"He was fine this morning." Camilla said with a frown as she glanced at Ian.

"Do you know what happened to him?" John asked.

"Seth said that he got a call from his girlfriend, there was an argument." Camilla explained. "Seth said it wasn't a full on fight, but Jas was waiting at the cafe across R Tower so he went to meet her."

"He has a girlfriend?" John asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Didn't you have some file about all of our details?" Camilla teased, although she didn't completely ignore the possibility of John having a file with their personal details.

She noticed that it seemed to be a common practice in the Reyes Groups upper management to know everything and anything about the people they were going to work with.

Today, most of her work had been arranging personal information of people that the CEO would be having meetings with.

Marco had explained how the members of the Reyes Family didn't like going into meetings or deals with people they knew nothing of. 

As a matter of fact, one of the most important skills that they needed to have as assistants was the ability to use all their resources to find out every bit of information about another person.

"I do have a file on the two of you, yes." John admitted as he laughed at Camilla's question. "But it doesn't have much. Among all the people that work for the Reyes Group, you, Ian, Marco, and Leon are the ones I know the least about."

"How come?" Camilla asked.

"You're technically my bosses or my co-workers, something like that." John explained. "So back to this girlfriend, you've met her?"

"Yeah, she caused a scene once outside of Solaire Towers." Camilla said with a laugh as she remembered how Jas had reacted when she spotted Camilla getting out of Ian's car.

"Let me guess, she thought Ian was cheating on her with you?" John confidently asked as he continued to traverse the heavy traffic of the capital. 

"How did you know?" Camilla asked as she looked at John. "You weren't gossiping with the staff by any chance? Were you?" 

"No." John said as he shook his head. "The two of you look close, too close. If I were in a relationship with either of you I'd be jealous too. You guys just met each other and you seem to get along perfectly."

"Trust me, he isn't my type." Camilla said as she shook her head. 

"Sometimes, it's not about that." John said with a grin making Camilla go silent. 

She knew she didn't like Ian, at least not that way. 

To her Ian was like a brother, someone she could trust and depend on. Like him, she too had a sad past, and whenever she saw his determination to do better it gave her hope. Hope that she can do better too.

When they finally pulled up to the driveway of Solaire Towers, John nudged Ian awake. 

"You okay?" John asked as Ian clearly had a better demeanor now after taking a quick nap.

"Yeah, sorry about that." Ian said as he shook his head. 

"Look, you should talk to Seth and Camilla, they are worried about you." John told Ian.

"I will, I just needed to wrap my mind around what had happened when I went to speak with Jas, my girlfriend." Ian said with a sigh as he looked around.

"Camilla went on ahead. She told me to tell you that she invited Seth to have dinner with you guys." John told Ian. "She asked me to tag along too, but I need to go see someone."

"Alright." Ian said with a nod. "Thank you, by the way." Ian told John.

"For what?" John asked the assistant.

"For not trying to find out more." Ian told him.

"If you wanted me to know, you would tell me." John said with a shrug. "Plus Camilla probably nagged you about it already."

"No, not really. She just asked then let me be." Ian said as he got out of the car.

"If you need anything, call." John told Ian as he walked over to a car that was waiting behind Ian's.

Ian simply nodded and made his way up to his own place.