Day of reckoning

**SHANTEL'S POV**

There is a bald-headed official seated just beside Scarlett, and although everyone else in the room looks uncomfortable with Scarlett's presence, he looks particularly jittery. I can see the film of sweat coating his shirt and darkening his armpits even as the AC is turned low and blasting. I see his hand twitching like a scared little child, and his forehead crumpled like an old dollar note.

"Since you claim that everybody here vetted the documents before they got to me, how is it possible that this suspicious clause that was meant to deceive me into relinquishing ownership of my father's company into the hands of Storm Company was somehow omitted?" Scarlett asked, looking around the table and maintaining the smirk on her face.

"I have always chosen to believe that you are all capable and literate people with the best interests of this company at heart, and I believed that the processes of the company were so airtight that no anomaly would actually sneak past yo