“Here is your room, you can stay here until—“
Peace was showing Charlotte around the mansion and she even gave her one of the best rooms in the mansion.
When Charlotte saw her stop in the middle of her words her eyebrows knitted together, “How long?!...” she asked.
“I don’t know!—“ Peace looked flustered and ashamed.
“How come is it that you don’t know? Aren’t you working with them?”
“No! I am not!” She strongly refused, she had guilt in her eyes as she looked at Charlotte, but it was not because she had done something wrong, it was because she was covering up for her friends.
“I mean I just can’t—I can’t let anything happen to them,” She looked away.
Charlotte felt disappointed, she stepped away from Peace and muttered lightly.
“I am feeling tired! I would like to rest for a while,” Charlotte looked away,
“Okay! You can rest! I will leave you here then,” Peace turned around but wasn’t able to leave the room as she had seen the sadness and disbelief in Charlotte’s eyes when Alex told her that he would not let anything happen to her father’s company.
“Listen!” Peace turned back at her, Charlotte didn’t look back at her, “ I know you think Alex is lying about saving the company and stuff—but I promise you I won’t let them ruin that!”
“And why should I trust you?” Charlotte slowly looked at Peace and demanded an explanation.
“I—I don’t know,” Peace was at a loss of words, and she looked down at her hands.
“I don’t know the real reason why you kidnapped me, but I want to tell you that as long as I keep on getting good news from the side of the company, I will be good, and as soon as I see something off—I will not let anyone of you get out of it alive,” she was a soft-spoken girl but the way she uttered those words sounded really threatening. Peace breathed out and nodded.
“I will keep that in mind, have a great rest.” She walked out of the room and according to Alex’s instructions she locked the door. The windows were not sealed as it was the third floor and under which there were electric fences, so jumping wasn’t a very good idea.
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“Boss!! Miss Charlotte is here! She wishes to see you,” a young and attractive woman walked into Isaac’s office and spoke with a soothing voice. Isaac didn’t look at her and spoke.
“Where is Jermy?”
“Boss, you asked him to pick up your parcel,” she spoke with a confused face, ‘did he forget already? It was like 3 minutes ago,’
“Oh! Tell her that I am busy, I will meet her in—“ glanced at his watch, “In an hour,”
“Okay Boss,” She replied and went out. Isaac attentively read the papers before him, it seemed very interesting to him rather than a human being that he had left waiting.
While Isaac completely forgot about his meeting, Ada sat silently waiting for him to arrive. She occasionally glanced at her phone and back at the door but neither of those places showed any hopeful results until her phone gave a light ring and the screen showed a notification from Peace.
“Sorry for being late, I was working. Don’t worry I have already prepared your file and I will be there in 15 min.” It was a long text that showed how desperately she was trying to get there in time.
“Hurry up!!” Ada mumbled and looked up at the door. “What is taking him so long?” She breathed out heavily.
Ten Minutes passed and the door opened, it was Jermy with an apologetic expression.
“Miss. Charlotte I am extremely sorry, you had to wait again but Boss is a bit busy with work so I will be discussing the issue with you,” Jermy was holding a blue file. Ada pouted, ‘ why is it so hard to catch his attention!!?’ She screamed inwardly.
“Yes, let’s do that,” she gave a forced smile.
“That’s great!” He took a seat and opened up the file. “Here,” he handed over the file to Ada,
She took it and read through the papers. After a few minutes of reading Ada frowned.
“Can we wait for a moment, I would like my advisor to help me outing this,”
“Your advisor?!”
The door opens just in time and Peace walked in with a serious face.
“Sorry, I am late,” the words sounded nothing like an apology when she said it.
“You are finally here!” Ada jumped up, her tensed face was finally relieved. “Here take a look at this,”
Ada didn’t know a thing about office work; she had her own talents but this was far from her reach. Peace had agreed to help her because she wanted to keep the promise she had done to the real Charlotte.
Jermy was led speechless as he saw her walk around the table, she sat gracefully on the couch against him and placed her bag on the floor. She then took the file from Ada”s hand and opened it,
After reading the content of the file, Peace seemed dissatisfied, and she looked up at Jermy and asked.
“Why does it seem like it's not a mutual agreement! It more like my client is going to be his slave for the next few months after She has signed this,” Peace spoke.
“Huh?” It was as if Jermy wasn’t expecting this kind of response from her.
“I knew something like this was going to happen, so I came well prepared.” Peace picked up her bag and pulled out another file. She placed it on the table and pushed it towards him.
“Take this to your boss, and tells him if his answer is yes, then We will have a deal and the answer is no—then Farewell,”
There was a sudden silence in the room. Ada's eyes flashed in Peace’s direction, while Jermy seemed like he had seen a ghost.
“You sounded so much like him—“ both of them spoke together, they were shocked to see how similar their words were.
“Pardon?” Peace asked, “I sound like whom?” She asked.
“Isaac! Boss!” They replied together.
“I will not take it as a compliment, I would like you to take this file to him. He can contact Miss. Charlotte once he has agreed.” Peace got up, and saw Ada not moving, “ Aren’t you coming?” She asked.
“Oh! I forgot,” Ada got up and followed Peace,
Jermy sat dumbfoundedly staring at the closing door.
“What was that? I have goosebumps all over my body,” he looked pale.
Isaac had strictly prohibited the entry to his office, he said he had work to do and whoever disturbed him would be fired that instant, Jermy didn’t get time to give the file to him. Hours passed and finally, Isaac walked out of the room but his face was distorted and he was boiling in anger,“Boss I have something to tell—““What did she say to you when you met her?” He didn’t listen to what he had to say, instead, he looked at Jermy with fury and spoke with clenched teeth.“Boss, I was going in but it was you who had forbidden us to enter.“Okay tell me now! I am listening,”“She didn’t agree, instead she gave me this, and said—“ Jermy
“Madam, Someone is here to meet you,” the head maid walked into Mia’s room.Mia was reading a book while enjoying a cup of floral tea with a slice of creamy strawberry cake.“Who is it?” She asked softly as she placed the book on the table.“She calls herself Charlotte Evan Woods,” the maid looked down in respect.“Charlotte!! Where is she?” Mia swiftly got up,“She is waiting in the living room,” the maid replied.“Okay! I will be downstairs in a minute,” She glanced at herself in the mirror and ran her fingers through her short hair, before giving a light smile to herself.&
Isaac walked in through the mansion’s door. He was holding onto the file Jermy had given him. He walked into the living room and saw the two ladies giggling about something.“Why did you call me?” He spoke with a serious voice. Ada felt like her soul had been sucked out when she heard his scary voice, Mia noticed that and she frowned at Isaac.“Stop scaring her!” Mia spoke.“When did I?” Isaac felt like his mother was being way too much.“I said to apologize!” She was not backing off.Isaac glanced at Ada and parted his lips reluctantly, “ I am —sorry,” He spoke with a very stoic face, showing how not sorry he was.
At the southern part of the City, not very far away from Issac’s mansion, there was a banquet going on. The dazzling decoration and the breathtakingly beautiful decoration could easily sway anyone’s heart. It was the same day when Ada met Mia.Mia, being one of the most recognized personalities of the business world was invited too. She had almost forgotten about the banquet but she received a phone call from Madam Scarlet who invited her again personally. Mia was the kind of woman that could refuse anybody without batting an eye. But as it was an invitation from Scarlet, her best friend she couldn’t refuse. So she went to attend the party, leaving Isaac and Ada alone in the study room.Mia was dressed elegantly, her peach pink dress made her look youthful. She applied light makeup that gave her a fresh look. She walked up the st
“What do you mean you are not coming? You promised that you would help me out!” Ada was begging Peace, Who was trying to write down something.“Don’t be stupid! I helped you out already!! What else do you want?” Peace asked.“But Isaac wants to meet you in person, only then he will take the decision,”She made an ugly expression.“I have a board meeting tomorrow! I can’t just leave it and join you!” Peace replied.“If you don’t come! he will never do as we want,” Ada was holding onto Peace’s leg.“This is why I told you not to get into this messy matter,” She huffed in anger.
Peace didn’t get much sleep as she was nervous about the board meeting. Her eyes were slightly sunken and dark circles had appeared under her eyes. She got off her bed and went to freshen up. It took her a few minutes before she walked out with water dripping off her face. She saw Ada sitting on her bed.“What happened?” Peace asked while drying her face with the towel she had in her hand.“Don’t do it like that. How can you deal with your face so roughly, it will fall off,” Ada pulled the towel off her hand.“What?!” She asked.“This is a body towel you can’t use it on your face,”“Isn't the face part of the body?” Peace asked while lifting a
“Yes! Why did no one take our opinion! We have our money at stake,”The room was filled with loud voices, But Isaac kept on staring at the figure of Peace that stood like a statue beside the chair.She took a deep breath, the words were getting too harsh. Isaac parted his lips to speak, but before he could say anything he heard a voice that was chilling and emotionless, Isaac too felt the chills.“Did I allow any of you to speak?”Isaac was dumbfounded when he saw who was speaking. It was Peace who had finally decided to open her sealed lips.“We are the board (members).”“Shh—I haven’t finished yet!” She cut his se
Peace walked into her office, she looked around with a dissatisfied expression.“Do you not like it?” Mark was disappointed.“No, Not at all--change everything! There is no light in the room! How is one supposed to work here? And what’s up with these windows?” Peace clicked her tongue. “This place needs a full renovation.” She added.“Yes! We will start working on it, you can work in the Director's office until then.” Mark added.“Hm… that sounds nice, And one more thing! Bring me the yearly report of all the projects that are currently ongoing, bring me every single bit of information,” Peace spoke with a clear voice.“Right aw