It took Xander a week to recover and during that week he had to read reports on the company. He got to now that his father was the Chairman of XL industries. XL industries is a well known in the continent an it is rumour that they had more power than the government. Some say that it was the Chairman that etermine who becomes the president of the country.
Xander stayed in one of the rooms in the mansion. The doctor had advised against too much movement and Max had followed it to the core. He had maids bring his food for him. The room had it's own bathroom and bar so there was no reason for him to leave the room.
"Are you done with the reports?" Max asked as he entered the room and closed the door behind him.
"It was a lot but i finished them" Xander answered, he stood from the bed and walked to the celling to floor window and stretched. The bandage around his chest was removed the previous and he stood bare chest looking at the garden from his window.
"And what do you observe?" Max asked further
"Some Arts in the gallery are being sold with authorization. Some new actress in the entertainment industry surprisingly climb the ladder faster into popularity. There were many issues that need to be address and I suspect the board of directors are the reason for all this" Xander explained brief and turned to face Max
"Nice observed and you are right"
"So why did Cameron turn a blind eye on it" Xander asked and started arranging the bed. It had become an habit after years of doing it, he wasn't comfortable when the maids come do it for him and Max never argue about that.
"The board of directors are a little bit hard to handle but I know you would find a way around them, What about the profit? " Max addressed
"The profit brought from each sector is good but we need to focus on the needy instead of pleasing the rich" Xander commented
"Nicely said, put on some clothes we are going somewhere, don't complain your father's orders." Max said, leaning on the wall smiling when Xander groaned and walked into the closet. It was no surprise that he pick the most cheapest thing in there, a Louis Vuttion shirt and Jean. The short sleeve shirt showed his muscular biceps, which had been built up over the years of fighting to survive since he left the orphanage at age sixteen.
"You know you have to change your style of dressing once you take over" Max said to him as he pick up his brand new iPhone 15 from the dresser.
"Let me enjoy my freedom until then, let's go" Xander said and ran his fingers through his hair. He just look good without trying to.
The drive was a short one as they stopped in a shopping mall. It was the same shopping mall Xander had gone to buy his wife a necklace for their anniversary.
"Why are we here? " he asked
"To try out some clothes for your first appearance in the board meeting on Sunday" Max answered and got out the car as door at Xander side was opened by the driver before he had a chance to do so. He would never get use to it, Max called it rich men education.
They walked into the mall and Xander felt a bit confident than the last time he was here. He felt people eyes in him being that he dressed so ordinary but when his phone they passed him for one of those humble rich men.
Max and Xander walked passed the necklace section and heard someone called politely, "Excuse me, sir"
Xander turned to the direction of the voice and it was the attendant that package the necklace he bought. He knew that that necklace must have been swept away by the maid or luckily one of them took it.
"Oh, hello" Xander greeted
"Did your wife like the necklace " she asked shyly
"I didn't get to give it to her and I think it is for the best" Xander answered, Max watched theur conversation as a bystander.
"Oh, I didn't know you were rich, the last time you came here, you looked... "
"I wasn't rich then, I just discovered that I am"
"Okay, You aren't buying a necklace today " she said, coming a bit too friendly
"No, We are going to the clothing section" Xander answered. He didn't feel disturbed by the conversation since it has been long he had made any human contact apart from the old man, Max, that hover over him.
"Mind if I accompany you" she asked suggestively when another attendant came to change her.
"I don't, I kind of need a break from this old man" Xander joked and she laughed
"I understand you, remind me of my grandfather, you know how Mexican grandparents can be" Max raised an eyebrow at that statement, very repulse by being compared to a grandpa, he wasn't fifty yet!
"Tell me about it" Xander laughed along with her.
He later got to know that her name was Miranda but calling that would earn you a kick in the balls, just call her Randy.
Randy had a nice taste in fashion so she helped picking the suits and blazer Xander should try. She and Mac came clashing on some clothes she said look on hot on Xander and Max said it makes him look like a player. Sometimes that like the same clothes and there was no arguments, in all Randy was a nice company.
Max excused himself as he went to pay for the clothes the picked and warned Xander not to go far. Xander agreed immediately wanting him gone for a little while.
Randy and Xander wandered into the jacket section which was a unisex section. Randy noticed Xander taste in jacket and pulled out one that caught her eyes for him to try on. Xander tried it not after so much persuasion and begging from Randy.
Randy laughed when Xander imitated like he was one of Broadway actors.
"Look who we have here" a very familiar voice mocked. Xander can tell this voice in a crowd because of the number of times he had to handle her when she was high and drunk.
He raised his head and looked behind Randy and saw Helena on her weekend shopping sprew.