Mr. Adams walked in a with a bow and said;
"Young Master. You are the real son of Austin Lee. He wants to see you at the reception now. We came in a convoy."
"Austin Lee, the CEO of the Lee Consortium?"
"Yes, your father is here now. He wants to meet with you."
"Alright, let me freshen up."
"Okay, young Master, I will wait at the door."
"Don't bother waiting at the door. Sit here and wait. Please, just call me Roland. I'm still young. Remove the master, please."
"No..do you want your father to skin me alive. You deserve all the respect, Young Master," he said again with a bow.
Roland shook his head and walked into the bathroom to brush his teeth and take his bath. He had a mixed feeling of gladness and resentment towards his father who had abandoned him for many years only to show up now. He made up his mind to listen to what he had to say. There must be a reason why he left him to suffer all these years.
He freshened up and walked with Mr. Adams to a special conference hall in Aureus hotel. This hall was meant just for dignitaries like Austin Lee.
As soon as he walked in all the men with Austin Lee bowed and hailed him
"Young Master!"
He looked at his father. He was tall and incredibly handsome with dark wavy locks like the ripples of a midnight ocean. Though he was aged, his beauty was still intact.
"Son, I am glad to meet you. I am Austin Lee, your biological father. I have found you after so many years."
"How can I be so sure that you are my father? I have been without a father and mother for twenty four years living in an orphanage under the care of the only woman who has been a parent to me, Madam Ross. How can I just accept you as my father?" Roland Lee spilled his face laced with disgust.
"Son, come close to me. I am your real father and you have proven to be my real son by spending one hundred million dollars judiciously. I named you Roland. So the inscription RL on the card meant Roland Lee."
"You named me Roland?" Roland asked, his voice laced with a mixture of incredulity and amazement.
"Yes, I did. I guess your mum retained that name so that I could find you easily. I loved your mum, Genevieve. I loved her dearly. Come close to me, son. Today is not a sad day. It is a happy day. We will talk and it will be just father and son alone. Come closer, son," Austin Lee spread wide his arms for an embrace with his long lost son.
Roland Lee sauntered into his father's arms and wept profusely on his father's shoulders. His father wept too but refrained after a few minutes.
"Young Master," the men with his father hailed him again with a bow.
Roland looked at the men with his father and believed that his father was very wealthy. The men with him were clad in native blue suits and Armani sneakers. He looked from them to his father again.
He looked at Mr. Adams who kept smiling at the reunion of father and son. Austin Lee had mourned for his son for many years but he kept on believing that he would find his only son someday.
Austin Lee had employed tech experts on the hunt for his only son over the years. He had to specially make a promise to Mr. Adams to find his son and be rewarded by making one of Mr. Adams sons a stakeholder with the Lee Consortium.
So, Mr. Adams put in his whole energy even though the reward was not his target. He loved Austin Lee dearly and would do anything for him because he was a kind hearted boss.
"Roland Lee, my son, my only son is back. Let's toast to this reunion," he said as they popped the bottle of wine and poured wine into wine glasses for a toast.
"Tell the hotel attendant to set a banquet for two Austin Lee and Roland Lee. Tell them to serve free meals to everyone for a week. The long lost son of Austin Lee is back," Austin Lee said excitedly as he held his son firmly.
After the banquet he went into one of the suites with his dad who admired him from head to toe. 'My son is very handsome too,' he thought inwardly.
"Roland Lee, you are a chip off the old block. You are handsome too. You should be in a relationship now, aren't you?" His father asked, patting his shoulder.
"Dad, I had a babe I loved dearly. Nancy is her name but she jilted me for another guy Greg Maxwell whose father owns the Exclux hotel," he replied with a small smile etched on his face.
"Exclux hotel?"
"Yes Exclux hotel, dad."
"Exclux hotel is a five star hotel under the Lee Consortium," Austin Lee spilled as he smiled gently at his son.
"What?"
"Yes, son Exclux hotel is a sublet of Aureus hotel under the Lee Consortium."
"Dad, you own Aureus hotel too?"
"Yes, son."
"I own this hotel."
Roland Lee looked at his father, his eyes blinking uncontrollably in dismay.
"Yes, son I own different hotels, schools and have shares in different tech companies too. The Lee Consortium is a magnificent one. I spent fifty years of my lifetime building the Lee Consortium."
"I own Stone University, the best private university in Washington DC."
"What! Dad, you own the Stone University," Roland stood and paced the room as he clenched his fist with his brow furrowed in rage.
Austin watched as his son paced the room angrily.
"What ails thee, son. I know you are shocked but all I worked for and possess is yours now, son. It's all yours," Austin said as he fixed his gaze on his son passionately.
"Dad! I was labeled a thief and rusticated from Stone University a few weeks to my final year exams," Roland Lee said as his body trembled and his eyes reddened