The Ruby  

     

               Confident I step into the meeting and take my seat next to Aziel.

 "Where were you all evening?", he hisses in my ear as I put out my documents. "I knocked on your room door, you weren't there either. Did you run off with that blond guy? Danner won't like that." I give him a warning look.

"Today it’s up or down. We have to get the contract through today, come what may. Concentrate on that. We'll talk about the rest later during our victory drink!". With a gooey smile, I look across the table as Aziel opens the meeting.

My hand with the ruby ​​demonstratively travels to my lips, visible to everyone in the room. And just as I imagined, my beauties next to the eye-catching ring are attracting everyone's attention. All eyes are on me, even Mr. Cheng's is stunned at what he sees.

"Get out the original contract," I whisper to Aziel. He loo