Chapter 7: Meet The Fishes
The immense pressure emitted from the towering man in front of him, made Manager Strauss whimper and he walked backwards and his back pressed in the wall behind him.
"Boss... I thought with Chairman Brunton wishing to see his granddaughter each year in her birthday, I might help him today since he misses her..."
He tried to rationalise his behaviour. In fact he just wanted to bring her back and thought of getting in the good graces of the Chairman. He didn’t want to be stuck in the middle management for the rest of his life. His son is going to college.
He never thought of offending the chairman because everyone knows how he rules with an iron fist. Everyone who’s in this company long enough will know how the Chairman dragged his daughter through the floor during an annual banquet in his home, in front of his employees and locked her up in her room when she insisted on marrying Robert Whiteford and invited him without his permission.
Surely the Chairman would appreciate this little initiative to bring back the Princess. Shouldn’t she be taught how she should behave? Surely he spent some and said some words to convince the hacker when he learnt from an anonymous source that the Princess is in NY working in a PR firm.
But what Manager Strauss didn’t expect was his little plan failing and he was now shocked how this plan he secretly made is leaked to the CEO.
But seeing the deep gaze of the grey eyes of Jordan McAllister and his smirk as he ran his fingers through his platinum blond hair, he could guess what might have happened. He is not the King’s Cup-bearer for nothing. Nothing escapes the shady figure who is the right-hand man of the CEO.
The McAllister family’s sole heir who is shady suddenly joined Arthur Sinclair after the greatest recession in the history of Esteria that happened ten years back. In just a day all the stocks of the North Pole Enterprises fell to the floor, greatly affecting the economy of the nation itself.
With the Lockhart family breaking their alliance with the Brunton family and with the already existing feud between the Sinclair and Brunton families intensifying, the stock took a big hit in just a day. Only the announcement of wedding between Arthur Sinclair and Talia Brunton stopped the further sinking of the stocks. But it still didn’t get better since Talia disappeared immediately after the wedding announcement.