CHAPTER 35
AUTHORESS
Luca steps into the boardroom and looks around, the tensed silence in the room is obvious, everyone is seated, Emberlynn included, he wonder what she is doing there, normally only executives were allowed into the meeting, among them they had a secretary who took the minutes, it was a known fact from when he was William’s PA but now she was seated at the opposite end of the table, opposite her dad, she looked to be in a better mood.
Luca moves to go sit in the only empty seat on the table, in between two executives, one was in charge of the Accounting department of the company and the other was the man in marketing, he hadn’t been even given a unit to head he realized and worse there was no open position, this position was created, he was really getting worried on what might come out of this promotion.
He rose his head and smiled at the two men on his side, not knowing before his entrance, a few of the executives had been g
CHAPTER 36EMBERLYNN’S POV“Dad what do you think you're doing?” I say in a really controlled voice which even surprises me, I thought at the closest chance I will be screaming down the building.“Oh, so that fire in you haven’t been quenched by that clown yet”, Dad says raising his eyes from the stack he’s going through.Kelly had arranged the files before him before we went in for the meetings.The shareholder’s meeting had been pretty short, just an introduction of me and what he plans to do, little by little my training will start, from then he will begin to hand over to me part by part.“Don’t insult him, that’s all you have been doing today”, I say raising my voice.Dad sighs and sits down on his seat as if tired which would be a shock, he has been the one dishing out the insults and making the atmosphere uncomfortable.“Do you think I don’t want you to b
CHAPTER 37LUCA’S POVI want to say I'm shocked but I always did know Emberlynn was spoilt and I didn’t build love for her to be bothered by what she said but once again she and her dad put me under them.“I'm so sorry babe, I really didn’t mean it, I was just pissed you were pouring out your anger on me all of a sudden, I didn’t even know about all these before_”, she starts to say, I turn to her and put on the fakest smile I can muster.“I forgive you”, she looks extremely shocked, and well I really didn’t want to drag this baseless topic, as long as she is making it to the top, when we get married, she can give it to me, simple.With that thought I move forward and hold her face in my hands, “I really do, we are both stressed and it’s neither of our faults, so yes babe I forgive you and in the light of that let me buy you dinner to celebrate your good news”, I say with a smile.&
CHAPTER 38EMBERLYNN’S POV“You should chill like chill by miles, you're too worked up, like shake off the tension”, Aria says.While we were at work, the movers had transferred our stuff back home with the supervision of one of my dad’s trusted guards, so now we were at home trying to get me dressed for the dinner this evening, dad had wanted to do it out but I had fought it with all I was worth.There was no way I was letting them take their beef to a public place, if I did and dad got embarrassed for something he might even cause I wouldn’t hear the end of it and neither will Luca.“You say it like its easy, dad and Luca are at logger heads and we are about to sit for dinner, I'm scared the knives will be used for something other than slicing steak”, Aria stifles her laughter but try as she may it couldn’t be held in, she burst out laughing with her hands off as she moves back and away from my deat
CHAPTER 39LUCA’S POV“Be careful, we don’t want you hurting yourself now, do we?” I step into the room as Emberlynn stops tearing her clothes off her body.I see the tears in her eyes and thank God again for Aria, the truth was I hadn’t noticed she was acting off or worse that she had been watching us since Aria came down, as soon as William had tripped me or rather set the trap that tripped me I had decided that I didn’t care what his daughter thought, I had let a minute of shame shake the foundation of years of planning and working.“Finally took your eyes of my friend”, she says turning away, she walks into what is obviously a closet, she comes back with a pink robe.“I did it all on purpose”, she looks at me with wide eyes and then anger, I can see the rage in her eyes.Sincerely, it was Aria who noticed the reason why she left and picked up her phone and quickly texted m
CHAPTER 40ARIA’S POV“And that is it”, he says looking into my eyes.I shake my head, “I don’t believe a single crap you just said”, I say.So this is Luca and I having a conversation I thought was sincere some minutes ago but now I'm not so sure, its past 2 in the morning and Luca was finally able to entangle himself from Emb, he took a quick shower and came over to my room by 2 to tell me he had been planning all this from little.A stupid story of how he craves power and how he would let nothing stop him, apparently that was why he left me or rather made me leave him.I sincerely didn’t believe this story, I know there is something driving him but all this story about him being this power hungry person is something I don’t believe in at all.“So let me understand it all, you are saying that you had been following up the Smiths just so you can get a p
CHAPTER 41EMBERLYNN’S POVI sit up wandering what woke me up, I stretch and feel for Luca, he isn’t here, did he go back home while I was asleep.The bathroom door opens and he comes out with a smile, “Morning”, he says coming towards me, “Wait did you hear the scream too”, he asks his face becoming more serious, losing all playfulness.“Scream?” I think, was that what woke me up? “I’m not sure but something woke me up, we should check it out”, I grab my robe from where it hung on the bathroom door.Together we walked out towards the stairs, I clap my hands as we pass the darkened hall way so the lights can come on.When we reach the stairs I see Aria, she looks disheveled, I start running towards her, whatever could have happened to her.All of a sudden I stop I feel the hairs on my body stand on end, goose bumps attack me, I feel my heart be
CHAPTER 42AUTHORESS’S POVEven on those rare rainy days where New York experience a heavy downpour, there have never been such gloom. Williams sat in an open coffin as the Rev sprinkled holy water and said some prayers that nobody seemed to be listening to.Everyone was shocked, it wasn’t a matter of grief this time, well Emberlynn of course and her father’s close staff were in grief but for the rest of the thousand plus it was shock.The great William Smith tripped over his feet in his mansion and fell to his instant death that was what the hospital staff said, there was no chance of survival, it was instant, he didn’t have a chance at life after that fall.Emberlynn had not said a word, she had just signed the cheque for the preparation of the burial, it was held a week after his death, she contemplated moving him to Scotland but New York had always been his home, so everyone who could make it had travelled down.And Luca
CHAPTER 43 EMBERLYNN’S POV “The deal with Maurice and Stephens will be terminated, the numbers are going down, in 2 weeks we have lost millions of dollars and I see no way they can bring it up in such a short while, I'm not just talking bringing it up, I'm saying give us numbers that will make the books stop looking like a damn playing ground”, I say dumping the folder on the table. It’s a meeting with the board and this particular project has been yielding loss, it was signed after dad’s death, the one week I had been away and for a month were I had been the acting CEO, there had been no change. “I am not saying you're wrong because the numbers are glaringly obvious but I think it’s not right to deal with a woman especially one who is still dealing with grief”, Mr. Sczender says, he has been the biggest thorn in my flesh. I had never cared much for the feminist community, it just wasn’t something I had passion to