I Inherited Billions

Chapter 23

I was startled by this.

I quickly ran to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Just as I expected, Montana, who was sleeping on the floor, woke up a few seconds after I entered the kitchen.

She stretched lazily and began to tidy up the floor.

I was relieved to see that she had not noticed my strange behavior.

…

I hitched a ride in Montana’s car to school after breakfast.

When I entered the classroom, I saw my classmates gathered together and excitedly discussing smething.

I guessed they were talking about Layla.

Chris arrived right then.

He looked dejected, so I asked him, “What’s wrong with you?”

“What else could it be? I couldn’t get the tickets. My girlfriend said she would break up with me if I can’t get tickets for her this time.”

“What? It’s just tickets. How difficult can it be to get them?”

“Of course it’s difficult. Don’t you know how popular Layla Owens is? Even tickets from scalpers have hiked up to over two thousand per ticket. There’s a high demand for them, but no tickets are available. None of our classmates managed to get any.”

“How many tickets were on sale?” I questioned.

That would be the only reason tickets were difficult to come by.

“You don’t really follow pop culture. You wouldn’t know how popular Layla Owens is nor how crazy her fans are. It’s fine. I shouldn’t even try buying any… I won’t be able to get the tickets anyway. I’d better use my time to figure out how to cheer up my girlfriend,” Chris said with a depressed look on his face.

“Don’t give up! It’s just a few concert tickets. It shouldn’t be difficult to get them. I’ll help you with it,” I said confidently.

Layla Owens was my wife, after all.

All I had to do was get a few tickets from her. This could not be easier to manage.

“Is that true? Can you really get the tickets?” Chris had a look of disbelief on his face.

“I’m telling you that money won’t be able to buy tickets for her concert.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll settle this for you.”

I continued to be confident about this and was planning to continue bragging a little more after that.

However, our class representative, Nadia Williams, appeared in front of me.

She spoke to me in an authoritative tone. “Freddie, go to our class teacher’s condo after class and do some cleaning up for her.”

I was quite unhappy with her attitude.

I knew her family had some money just like Howard Lincoln.

However, there was no reason to act so arrogantly even if you were rich!

I frowned and replied, “I’m not going. Do it yourself if you want to be our teacher’s pet! Why should I be the one doing it?”

“Just do as I say!”

With that, she slapped a key and fifty dollars onto the table. “Aren’t you known for doing anything for money? This is just a minor job. Fifty is a lot for you, isn’t it?”

I opened my mouth, about to reject her.

However, the teacher of our next class suddenly entered.

Nadia quickly returned to her seat, and I lost my chance to say no.

…

I wanted to return the money to Nadia after class, but I could not find her after searching all over the school.

I was a little hesitant as I held the key in my hand.

Should I help Cherry with cleaning up?

I was not considering it because of the fifty dollars.

It was because I wanted to see what our pretty class teacher’s room looked like!

…

After thinking about it, I decided to go ahead with the cleaning.

I arrived at the faculty apartment and opened Cherry’s door with the key.

A fragrance immediately filled my nostrils.

I could tell that it was not a high-end perfume, but a fragrance that came from Cherry herself…

It was subtle and milky. It was mesmerizing.

I sniffed the air hungrily and entered the door.

Cherry might usually look cold and distant, but her room was tidy and cozy…

Her bed was covered in purple sheets, and she had hung up cozy, white curtains over the windows. Every corner of her room had a warmth to it.

However, it was at that same moment I noticed she had hung out a few freshly laundered panties to dry on the balcony.

They were on a drying rack and fluttering in the wind.

There was a pair of purple panties and a black one. There was also a very sexy-looking lacey thong.

I gulped quite a few times at this sight.

I thought to myself.

Cherry had always acted cold and distant. Who would have thought she had such a slutty preference when it came to her panties?

She even wore thongs.

I closed my eyes and imagined how sexy she looked in those thongs, and I immediately felt a hot rush throughout my body.

I did not dare continue staring at them after taking a few more looks.

I got the cleaning tools from her bathroom and began cleaning up seriously.

I quite liked Cherry and was pretty grateful to her.

That was why I decided to clean her place up nicely since I was already here.

When I began cleaning under her bed, I found a shoebox under there.

I initially thought it was empty, so I pulled it out to throw it away on her behalf.

I was shocked to see that it was filled with s*x toys when I opened it.

There was a fake p***s made of rubber, a love egg, and many other kinds of toys in there.

I touched the rubber p***s with my finger. It must have been recently used, because it was sticky.

An acidic smell was also coming from it.

The thought of this having been recently used by Cherry immediately got me even more hot and bothered.

However, I suddenly heard the sound of a key turning at the door.

Cherry was home?

I panicked and quickly stuffed the box back under the bed where it belonged.

“Freddie, what are you doing here?” Cherry was puzzled to see me in her home.

She seemed to realize something in that instant and grew upset. “Who let you in here? Get out, get out of here right now!”

I knew Cherry was going to be mad when she saw me here.

Thus, I decided to point the finger at the true culprit.

“I’m so sorry. I didn’t want to come, but Nadia forced me to clean up on your behalf.”

“I don’t need any cleaning up done. Just get out!”

Cherry pushed me out the door at that.

…

I breathed a long sigh of relief after I was pushed out.

I felt lucky she did not know I had opened her box.

If she found out…

That would be so embarrassing!

I would be embarrassed, and she would be even more embarrassed!

I returned to the classroom after leaving the faculty apartment.

It was not long before I forgot about it.

However, Cherry called me into her office for no reason in the afternoon. Once I was inside, she closed her office door carefully.

I knew whatever came next was going be serious when I saw her do that.

Could it be that she had found out what I saw?

My heart beat wildly at the thought.

How was I supposed to explain it later?

Just as I was feeling deeply unsettled, Cherry returned to her seat and looked grimly at me. “Freddie Lang, I am so disappointed in you. I always thought you were a good kid who happened to come from a poor background. I never expected you to do something like this.”

I lowered my head and felt ashamed as Cherry lectured me.

I began thinking about how best to explain things to her to minimize her bad impression of me.

It was at this moment she suddenly said, “Where is it? Hand it back to me right now.”

“What? What do you mean?” I was stunned.

“Still pretending with me, are you? I lost my purple panties that I took off today. Who else could it be but you?”

“Panties?”

My mind was blank.

Had she called me in here just for this?

Did she think I was a panty-stealing p*****t?

“I wasn’t me. I may be poor, but I still have my integrity,” I explained, red-faced.

“Who else could it be but you? You’re the only one who has been to my room. Freddie, it’s not wrong for you to like me, but it’s disgusting to do something like this… Will you believe me if I tell you I’m going to call the cops right now?”

“No, no, don’t!”

I panicked when I heard her threaten to call the cops.

She was serious about it…

I was about to be embarrassed in front of the entire school.

“So, you admit it?” Cherry crossed her arms over her chest and stared at me. There was disappointment in her eyes, but she was more disgusted by this than anything else.

“I know you don’t believe me, but I really wasn’t the one who stole it. If I liked you, I would have courted you openly. I wouldn’t do something as sordid as this.” I stared straight at Cherry with a sincere look in my eyes.

She might have been touched by my sincere gaze.

She hesitated momentarily before saying, “Fine. I’ll believe you this one time. If this happens again, don’t blame me for calling the cops on you.”

“Thank you. Thank you for your trust.”

…

I realized my back was drenched with sweat after I left Cherry’s office.

I would never have thought something like this would happen.

All I did was clean up Cherry’s place just once, and so many things had come of it.

Come to think of it, who had actually stolen Cherry’s panties?

Might Nadia be framing me on purpose?