Lana Castroff
"Ms. Castroff, there's a little bit of a problem." My secretary said as I was busy checking files. I turned to her and I got up from my seat immediately.
"What is it?" I asked as we walked out from my office room.
"There's a man by the name of Phoenix Sterling, he did have an-" I stopped when I heard his name loud and clear from my secretary.
"Where is he?" I asked my secretary.
"He's in the blue meeting room." She said and I gestured to her to stay here. I made my way towards the blue meeting room that happened to be at the end of the hallway.
I opened the door and when he saw me, his lips turned into a smile. He didn't even bother to get up from his seat to greet me. "I was expecting to see your father but I guess talking to his daughter is even better." He said arrogantly.
"What's wrong?" I asked as I sat on the chair across him.
"I'm suing your company." He said in a serious tone and I looked at him disbelief.
"Sue my company? What? We didn't do-" Before I could complete my sentence, he put a file in front of me and asked me to read it. I opened the file and my eyes couldn't believe this. I looked up to Phoenix and he smirked at me.
"I was quite nice for not exposing it to the public.. just yet but I'm guess your father didn't tell you about this huh?" He asked and I looked down to the files again.
"Or maybe.. your father is currently running away right now as we speak." He added and I got up from my seat slamming the file to the desk angrily.
"Are you doing this because of what happened 3 months ago?" I asked, looking at him raging in anger.
"Ms. Castroff, I'm not that immature. I'm here because of that." He pointed at the file and I closed my eyes trying to breath properly.
"I will have my lawyers come here tomorrow and we can talk about settlements." He said as he got up from his seat. I was speechless because a lot of things and my mind was trying to process everything slowly.
"Don't worry, I won't make you.. a commoner." He said before he walked out from the room. I sat down and my eyes just blankly stared at the ceiling. I immediately took out my phone from my pocket.
I dialed my father's number and he didn't pick up. I kept calling and calling but he didn't pick up. I immediately walked back to my office and asked my secretary to call my father's secretary. I need to have a word with her.
"Ms. Castroff." I gestured her to sit down on the sofa and I walked towards her. I slammed the file that Phoenix gave me earlier to the table in front of her.
"His company is suing us because his staff got an infection from our product! What exactly happened?" I asked and she kept looking down to the ground not knowing what to say.
"Where's my father? Is he running away?" I asked angrily.
"I don't know, Ms. Castroff. He told me that he won't be coming to work for about 4 days or maybe more." Shit!
"Did he make any changes for that product? Because there's no way that Phoenix Sterling's employees will get such infection!" I was pissed and I wanted an explanation from my father as soon as possible.
"Your father did purchase some products that are more cheaper than the original products. I remembered he was mentioning to me about something scented but that's all, Ms. Castroff." She said in a sad tone.
"You both take me to the factory now!" I hissed. I grabbed my phone in the table and the files from Phoenix. My secretary drove me to the factory and my father's secretary tried to read through the lawsuit that Phoenix gave me.
"I want you to give me Phoenix Sterling's phone number." I told Vira, my father's secretary. She immediately opened her work phone and sent his phone number to me. I saved it in my phone as we arrived at my soap factory.
I got up and walked inside to ask the employees there for the changes that my father made recently. They brought me to the gallons and gallons of new scented oil for our beauty product.
"I want details on this product and what's the new thing that my father changed?" I asked and the led me to the coloring product that we used.
"Ms. Castroff, we checked the production of products that Mr. Sterling's receive." My secretary said as she gave me her iPad. Apparently the products that Phoenix received was made around 2 weeks ago. He received the products about a week ago. So my father already changed everything.
"I want you to pull back all the products that we produced with the new ingredients. I want the test team to do another test on it." I said as I gave the iPad back to my secretary.
"Yes, Ms. Castroff."
"I want every product already here by tomorrow and check all the people that purchase our product recently if they have any infection like Phoenix Sterling's employees got." I said with a hint of an angry tone.
My employees quickly do as they told and I dialed Phoenix's number. I walked out from the factory hoping that he would answer my call.
"Hello."
"Mr. Sterling, this is Lana Castroff." I introduced myself.
"You want me to cancel the lawsuit?" He asked in a cold tone. I rolled my eyes and completely hated this man.
"No, but I would like to send some of my employees to check on your employees' condition. We want to know the cause of it." I said nicely or maybe trying to be nice.
"Very well, you can come to the West Hospital tomorrow at 1 o'clock."
"Okay, thankyou." I ended the call and sighed.
Phoenix Sterling"Who?" Angelo asked as he gave me a glass of white wine for us to enjoy. I put my phone on the table and sighed."Lana Castroff." I answered as I swirled my glass of wine."You filed a lawsuit on her company?" He asked me in a curious tone and I nodded."You know what happened so I have to take actions." I said and took a sip of the white wine. "I wonder why didn't you just expose her to the public. You don't seem nice to her.""She's the one who called Julie a commoner. I guess she just always hates them." I said and Angelo chuckled."I don't get it either why you're so nice to Julie. I didn't like her when I first laid my eyes on her." I raised my eyebrows looking
Phoenix SterlingWe ended up picking a seafood boil restaurant for our lunch. We ordered to servings of mix seafood boil. I saw her rolling her sleeves up and then she even clipped her hair into a bun to prevent her long hair from going near her mouth.I found her adorable by doing all of these.When we first met, she gave this badass attitude and even mocked Julie for being a commoner. I judged her badly because of how rude she was when we first met months ago. Our second meeting, she was pretty cold and not friendly. But our third meeting was rather interesting. She showed me how professional she is, not to mention that she's pretty responsible for all my employees.Now, she's acting all adorable and calm. Pretty different from our first encounter.
Lana CastroffAfter more than a week investigating all the products, we found no acid on every single product that we launched that day. It was weird for us to see. We did get the medical records of Phoenix's employees for it and they really contains acid inside that product.I was more than confuse at this point. I even asked my team to check it again but the result was the same.I walked to Phoenix's office building and his secretary led me his office. I brought the files with me and I saw him having all his lawyers ready. I guess I should have brought my lawyers but let's just see.I walked in and Phoenix turned to me. He gestured me to sit on the sofa beside him. I took a deep breath and walked towards him. I met his lawyers already and they greeted me politely
Phoenix SterlingI really hate it when my parents tried to set me up with the woman of their choice. I don't understand why they really want me to settle down as soon as possible when I'm only 26 years old. I'm the youngest out of the Illicit and why am I supposed to be the first one to settle down.I don't want to settle down.After I asked my chauffeur to send Lorena back to the hotel, I decided to have a word with my mother."You know now that I have a girlfriend so could you please stop trying to set me up with Lorena?" I asked her and she drank her tea slowly."Mother, I really like Lana and you can't treat her coldly like what you did in my office. She's my girlfriend so you shouldn't act like that."
Lana CastroffI walked into Phoenix's office with his secretary and she asked me if I want tea or coffee. I told her the water will be just fine and she told me to wait for Phoenix for about 5 minutes because he's still in a meeting. I sat down on the sofa and laid back for a second.I'm really tired of dealing with all of this alone. When will my father comeback because I'm ready to kill him for leaving me in the middle of something like this.I bet he's with her again.The door opened and Phoenix entered the room with his secretary. His secretary gave me a bottle of cold water and Phoenix asked her to leave us both alone."Ms. Castroff.. I have a proposition for you." I raised my eyebrows when he said that.
Phoenix Sterling"But on one condition.." She said as she took a step back and sat down on the sofa."What?""Let me stay in your house but with seperate rooms." I raised my eyebrows completely amused by her condition."That's easy, I will gladly grant your wish.""You want to pleased your parents and I want to pissed off mine. I hope you can cooperate with me when it comes to that." That made me wonder if she hates her parents."No one can know that we're married and don't even wear the wedding rings on a daily basis except when we're meeting our families." She said and I nodded."That's easy for sure. Anything else?"
Lana CastroffI brought the last box into Phoenix's penthouse and put it in my bedroom. I looked at all the boxes and stretched my arms out because it's been a tiring day moving in from my house to his penthouse.Phoenix's penthouse has two floors and he even has a private pool on the second floor which is amazing. I can't believe he's living alone in this penthouse and manages not to feel lonely most of the time.I agreed to get married to him because I want to pissed of my father. I bet one though percent on it that he will be mad at me. I'm tired of him having an affair with my own mother who already got married with her commoner boyfriend.My father must be somewhere in Europe with my mother and his secretary just informed me that he will be back by the time I'
Phoenix SterlingWe purposely came kinda late to Maldives because we don't want to deal with people before the party. We arrived about 2 hours before the wedding and we both were busy preparing ourselves for it."Ready?" I was fixing my tie when she came out from the bathroom looking so beautiful in her cream cocktail dress. She smiled at me and turned her body around."What do you think?" She asked."You look beautiful." I said because she did take my breath away. She grabbed her small clutch and she pointed at the door. "Let's go?""Yeah." I said and I checked myself one more time at the mirror before going out. I turned to her and asked her to link her arms to mine. She linked her arm and we walked to the venue together.