My Billionaire Soulmate

Everyone in the office is working normally, when all of a sudden a guy comes running and says ‘He’s coming!’

The entire office staff starts running around frantically. Everyone is busy clearing their tables. Then all of them get ready and form two lines. A man probably in his forties comes over.

“Ok, you guys on the left, and you on the right. Make sure no one makes a mistake, ok.” The man is probably in his forties and is practically sweating as the CEO is coming.

Just then a young man in his early twenties enters the office. Blue eyes, black shining shoulder length hairs tied in a neat ponytail. The suit was so perfect on him, anyone could guess he had a fit body and it wasn’t hard to guess he had a six pack as well. As he enters the office, a girl comes over and hands him a bouquet of flowers and greets him.

Taking the flowers, Devon says “Thanks for the welcome, it’s my first visit to the marketing department. I’m usually over at the accounts department. As you all know I took over the company three years back and I would like to personally thank you all for your hard work. But, as you all know our sales are lower than last year. Which is the reason I had to come. From now on I shall look over each project’s marketing myself. Rodrick (Manager), please bring me the project files, and I mean all of them. And, Terry, you’re the PR, right?”

Terry nods a yes and says “Yes, Sir.”

Devon says “OK, I want you to recruit some new creators for the upcoming perfume project. Make sure it’s an intern program.”

Terry says “Ah, sir, Miss Linda’s project is an elite project, interns? Would that be…”

With a stern look Devon says “Miss Terry, are you questioning me?”

Getting worried, Terry says “Oh no sir, I just meant.”

“Miss Terry, remember one thing always. The opportunity you got, you should always pray for others to get it so they can live their dreams as well.” Devon says with a brightness in his eyes “You also joined as an Intern two years back. I liked your work and made you a full time PR at the office.”

Terry instantly says “Sir, I can never thank you enough and I’m sorry for my bad. I’ll recruit some interns asap. Ah, Sir, any particular requirements?”

Devon says “Decent workers.”

Saying so Devon goes to his office. As he closes the door, he comes and stands in front of the window. Though the sun was shining bright, for some reason Devon was not affected by it and kept staring at the sun. Just then his phone rings. He sees a text from his mother telling him his father will be coming back this week.

Who is Devon you may ask, well Devon is the President of Clement Group of companies and CEO of Osborn Event Enterprises. His full name is Devon Clement. But after he took over his grandfather’s Osborn Event Enterprises, he changed his name to Devon Osborn Clement so he would have no problems in his work.

His grandfather, mother’s father, passed away when he was only sixteen years old, and left the company to his grandson. So, Devon took over as the CEO of Osborn Event Enterprises as a teenager. And when he turned 20, his dad gave over Clement Group of companies as well.

Devon comes over to his desk and takes his seat. As he is going through the paperwork, his eyes fall on the engagement ring he is wearing. He says in his mind ‘Why do I always end up wearing it when I know It will never be a reality.’ He opens his drawer and removes a frame. The frame has a photo of a little girl and a boy. The photo is a childhood photo of him and Katherine.

Devon goes into a flashback

Devon’s father Tim and Katherine’s father Robert were childhood friends. Their wives were also great friends. Devon’s mother Maddy and Katherine’s mother Jin got pregnant at the same time. When Robert and Tim knew, they made a promise to each other. To make their friendship stronger they would marry their children together. And so, Tim had Devon and Robert had Katherine. When the kids became five years old, the parents got them engaged and planned to get them married after graduation. Everything was perfect. Devon and Katherine were growing in a loving environment and both could not stay away from each other.

But one dreaded day, a kidnapping, a shootout destroyed their peaceful life.

It so happened one day Devon and Katherine were at Katherine’s home alone. Both kids were playing in the backyard. When all of a sudden a man wearing a monkey cap jumps over the wall and aims at Katherine and shoots. Devon sees the man and comes in the way. As Devon falls on the ground, Katherine starts screaming seeing Devon is bleeding. She falls on her knees and shakes Devon and keeps on saying ‘Devon get up’ over and over. Devon takes hold of Katherine’s hand and holds it tightly. The man comes over and says ‘So gonna play hero.’ He pulls Katherine from Devon and takes her away. But Katherine manages to remove the monkey cap before the man manages to take Katherine away.

When Devon and Katherine’s parents come back home, they see the guard is shot dead at the entrance gate. As they come inside they see the nanny’s are also killed. Jin runs to Katherines’ room to see the kids. As she yells the kids are not in the room, everyone starts to look for them. As Robert runs to the backyard he sees Devon is lying in a pool of blood. He yells to everyone to come as he has found Devon. As soon as they see Devon, Maddy dials for the ambulance. As the ambulance comes, Tim tells Jin and Maddy to go with Devon as they will go to the police and report Katherine is missing.

At the hospital, the doctor comes out and says Devon’s condition is critical. The bullet has logged near the heart and is causing a heart failure. He needs a heart transplant right now. Maddy agrees as this is the only option to keep him alive. But she didn’t know it would cause him problems later on.

The police could not find Katherine. Days went by and there was no whereabouts of Katherine and Devon was at the hospital.

Finally, Katherine was found but she was in shock. Apart from her parents she would not let anyone come near her. The uncle and aunt whom she once loved, now she feared them.

One day Katherine’s parents decide to bring her to the hospital in hopes maybe on seeing Devon, she would come to her senses. But at the hospital on seeing Devon she began to scream.

Devon’s condition was also not improving and Katherine had literally locked herself from the outer world. Soon the families were filled with tension. That’s when Tim took a major decision. He decided to accept a project offer in Italy and to leave along with Maddy and Devon.

Though he didn’t want to leave, with a heavy heart Tim told Robert he was leaving for Italy with Devon and Maddy. And promises the day both graduate, they will get them married.

As Tim left with Devon and Maddy for Italy, he didn’t know this would be the worst decision he’ll ever make.

Back in Italy, Tim managed to set up his business and over time it flourished and within a few years he was the President of Clement Group of Companies. Robert also had opened a resort and named it Sunrise Resorts. Katherine has began to socialize but whenever her parents tried to show her Devon’s childhood pictures, she would start getting scared, and would often have nightmares. So, her parents decided to not talk about Devon.

Devon also began to live his so-called normal life. After all he only had a heart transplant thanks to a near-death experience at the age of six and now for the rest of his life depends on medication and every slight whisk of wind can cause him to get infected. But nonetheless, Devon turned out to be an extraordinary young man. No matter what health issues he faced, he emerged as the most successful youngest CEO in his field.

Katherine also soon began to work at her father’s resort.

Over the years Tim tried to keep contact with Robert, but it seemed like Robert was hesitant, but Tim never gave up.

To The Present

Suddenly a knock on the door brings Devon out of his flashback. “Come in.” Seeing it’s Terry, Devon says “Don’t tell me you got an intern so soon.”

Terry says “No, sir, actually I came to tell you the meeting is in an hour…”

A little confused Devon says “Meeting? What meeting?”

Terry is surprised to see Devon forgetting the meeting as he’s the one who’s always ready in advance.

“Ah, the one with Miss Linda, on the layout of the advertisements and the hoardings issue.” Terry says a bit hesitant as she is afraid she will get scolded by him.

Devon sees he’s gotten a text from his mother so he says “Terry, tell Rodrick to bring the file over.”

Terry takes her leave and goes to Rodrick’s office and tells him to take the documents to Devon’s office.

As Rodrick enters Devon’s office, Devon says “Rodrick, we need to close the meeting soon….”

Rodrick sees Devon is fidgeting with his engagement ring and he knows this means Devon is tensed so he tries to calm him down as he knows getting tensed or over excited can be fateful for Devon.

“Ah, no problem Devon. The hoarding issue is solved and we have gotten the advertisement telecast time as well. So, it won’t be long.” says Rodrick in hopes that Devon calms down soon.

Devon goes through the paperwork and then gets up and says “Let’s go.”

As Devon and Rodrick enter the room, Miss Linda and her staff member get up to greet Devon.

As Devon takes his seat, he says “Miss Linda, the hoarding issues have been dealt with. We will start setting them up by this weekend and as for the advertisements, they will be on air the next week. According to our plans, we will release an ad by Tuesday. The shooting will commence today. So far everything is going to plan so, I think you can rest assured, there will be no issues.”

Miss Linda folds her hands and says “Mr. Devon I do have to say I was a little worried when I was coming over. After all, this is our prime perfume and when I was told you’re only 23 years old, I was sceptical, but now I’m happy to have the opportunity to collaborate with you.”

Devon remains calm and says “The pleasure is all mine Miss Linda. In this case I should thank you personally for taking the trust in me, thanks.”

As Miss Linda is folding her files she says “Mr Devon, would you please allow me to treat you to dinner as a gratitude for your great work.”

Devon says with an expressionless face “Miss Linda, some other time. But, still thanks for the offer.” As he gets up “Rodrick, please have David escort Miss Linda out. (Looking towards Rodrick) Let’s go.”

Linda and her staff gets up as Devon is ready to leave.

As Devon leaves, Miss Linda says “He’s an interesting person.”

A staff member says “Miss, according to my sources, he’s single and has no love interest. But, he avoids ladies.”

Miss Linda says “Well, there’s always a first for everything. Let’s go.”

Just then David arrives and says “Miss Linda please this way.”

As David is escorting Miss Linda to her car, back in the office Rodrick says “Devon, you received a text from Mrs Clement, I think you should take a look at it. Do you remember Katherine and…”

Devon picks his phone and sees the text and places the phone on the table and says “Rodrick, there’s not a day that I don’t think of Katherine. Matter of fact, I even tried contacting her two times, but she never replied. Looks like I’m the only one who wants the relation….”

Rodrick intervenes and says “Devon, please I don’t think its so. I’m sure she must have reasons and we really don’t know if she is ….”

Devon sighs and says “She’s fine. Dad said so himself. But, I don’t know…I mean come on, who in today’s world would accept a childhood engagement. Like which century are we living in?”

Smiling Rodrick says “You do, and I’m sure she is ….”

Just then Devon’s phone rings so he receives it and says “Yes, mom, what’s up?”

Maddy says “Hon, it’s your uncle…(sniffing) Robert….Robert….he’s no more.”

Shocked Devon says “What? When, mom, what happened?”

As Devon is speaking with his mom on the phone Tristan (Tristan is Devon’s bodyguard and childhood besty) enters and says “Devon we have to go home now.”

Looking at Tristan, Devon says confused “Mom, Tristan is here, did you send him?”

Maddy says “No, but it’s good he’s there, both of you come back home right now.”

Disconnecting the call, Devon says “Rodrick, ah….tell everyone to take the day off and cancel my appointments.”

Concerned, Rodrick asks “Devon, what’s the matter?”

A little lost on words Devon says “Ah, Robert uncle is dead. Don’t tell anyone yet, I don’t know what happened, so…”

Understanding the situation, Rodrick says “It’s ok Devon. Don’t worry about the office, you guys go on. I’ll come over after closing the office.”

Devon and Tristan take leave for home.