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Chapter 63
The ticking of the clock echoed loudly through the board room. The entire room had grown still and silent and not a pin drop
could be heard aside from the ticking of the clock. The relevant department members had already been seated in their respective
ces nearly ten minutes ago but the meeting could notmence. Not yet anyways.
With every passing tick on that clock which lead to seconds which then bled to minutes passing by, | had grown more annoyed.
Every relevant person who needed to be here had been all except one person and for that one individual, the meeting was on
hold.
Dante should have been here by now. It wasn’t like he was not aware of the meeting being held today along with the time. He
was either not going to show up at all or he had been runningte. Which ever of the two options it had been, it was
unprofessional to leave us uninformed.
| cleared my throat to get every ones attention. “We shouldmence with the meeting. The minutes of it would be forwarded to
those missing. | suggested and was met with silence along with doubtful shared nces.
It wasn’t like we hadn''t waited a decent amount of time before | had made such a suggestion but every one around the table
looked at me like | had suggested the most forbidden course of action.
“Are you certain? It wouldn’t be proper to begin with out thepany’s vital investor present.” One of the two members who
would be leading us through today’s meeting spoke.
4 pinned her with a stare which usually was not like me to be so short with people in the office. “| understand but we have
allocated enough time for anyteers and now we are simply wasting every ones time.” | nced at the clock and noticed
that it was now fifteen minutes that had psed since the meeting was set to begin.
She swallowed hard enough that | saw her throat tense up before she looked at her colleague for some indication of what to do.
He nodded at her giving her the go-ahead and she made her way go the projector screen and clicked the remote in her hand to
disy the first page of this progress
report.
She was just about to address every one when the board room door was pushed open rather loudly. Every head in that room
including mine had turned in the direction of the door to watch Dante. storm in with such a hauty air to him like he was notte at
all.
The dark material of his ck suit hugged his b*dy snug as he moved to hest empty seat reserved for him. He looked around
the room before his gaze paused at me but | kept my
expression neutral not wanting to show how affected | had been by his newly involved scandal. |
was sure that every one in this office building had read about the news by now but no one would dare say a word to him.
“My apologies for showing update. There had been an unforeseen circumstance that | had to deal with.” He apologized more to
me than the rest of room but | looked away from him.
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“Please, begin.” 1 ignored Dante and said to thedy waiting to lead us through this meeting.
The meeting hadmenced atst and my heart rate was all over the ce. My palms were mmy from the nerves and after
a while | had began gripping the edge of my leather upholstered
seat.
| needed the growth percentage to be in my favor. | needed it now more than ever! | couldn’t imagine what a p in the face
losing would be at this point.
The final verdict was approaching and | straightened my shoulders preparing myself for what ever it was going to be.
“After much analysis and rechecking the stats and figures, the finally verdict is that the percentages of growth remain the same
from thest time. There has been no percentage change but that is not to say that there has been no progress. Thepany
has managed a 10 perfect increase thus far and we are certain that if we continue with the same enthusiasm and drive, we
would be seeing great results by the next six month mark.” Sh it. That sounded great in theory that there was expected future
growth but that did not bode well for me currently.
Hell to the fl*ppin no. This could not be happening right now!
| had not managed to reach the 15 percent that the bet was set on. The bet that | so proudly agreed to raising the stakes in fact
only to fall face p. It was thest straw of humiliation that | could have thought to incur for myself when it hade to Dable. It
was a good thing that no one here aside. from Dante and | knew what this actually meant because none of them knew about the
bet.
| managed by some miracle to sit still in my seat until the meeting had concluded properly and people began leaving one by one.
| could not believe that | had not been sessful at achieving the 15 perfect grown in the past few months that | had taken over.
Sure things were slow at first with the changes but | assumed that it would be so attainable.
Without sparing anither second, | let the board room followed by the entire building itself. | knew what came after this and | was
not ready to deal with it right now.
Dante was going to want to buy out thepany and take it over as agreed upon in the verbal bet that we both had made. |
didn’t know what to do! There was no way out of this.
As | stormed to out of the building and to the parking lot, | hastily rushed to my car to get away from here. | got to the door and
fished out my keys from my coat but just as my thumb hovered over the button to unlock it, a strong arm wrapped around my
chest tightly until | felt like it was crushing my chest.
| opened my mouth to scream for help but a cotton like material was pressed over my mouth and nose and | nearly gagged from
the smell of it but it didn’t take me too long to realise that that smell was chloroform but it was toote because my b*dy grew
limp as my eyes rolled back in their sockets and that was when every thing turned ck.
| couldn''t tell how long it had been that | had been out cold. | had no idea whether it was minutester, hours, or perhaps even
possibly days. | tried to open my eyes carefully in hopes that maybe |
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could gauge my surroundings and get some idea of where | was but when may eyelids refused to open against the cloth tied
around them, | knew that | had been blindholded.
my head has still been muzzy from whatever it had been that I had inhaled forcefully and | knew my sensors were not as sharp
as the ought to be. having said that it was not rocket science for me to understand that | was in a moving vehicle that had been
taken on a very Rocky and off-road kind of
route.
“are vo
you at the meeting ce? | am nearly there. “the most blood chilling voice spoke and as | waited for another voice to respond to
him that did not sound loud enough in the car | figured that the driver had been on the phone speaking to someone else.
yes she is still knocked out since we nabbed her so there has been no signs of difficulty yet not that she would be much of a fight
even if she does attempt to escape.” the man said in a mocking almost macho tone.
“no her child was not with her when | grabbed her but | suppose that’s better, thest thing we need is some whiny child to add to
this.” my entire b*dy had ran cold.
Hayley!N?velDrama.Org is the owner.
it is not that | hadpletely forgotten about her but my head was so cloudy and my thoughts was so unclear that | hadn’t had
the capacity to think of Hayley. | could only hope that Nancy would give Dante a call since she never ever left the house until |
was home with Hayley.
my only hope now had been that whoever was behind this was not after Hayley as well but judging by the sound of it she was
not part of whatever n this was.
“if we y our cards right we will get exactly what we want, now please send me a pin location so | can meet you at the spot” the
man had spoken impatiently but that only got him an earful which | could hear but very muf fled.
I''m sorry, I’m sorry but it feels like I''ve been driving for a heck of a long time.” This gruff, rough sounding man was scared of
someone above. What the hell kind of s hit was | in?!
the vehicle shudded and wobbled as it went on whatever kind of rugged road we had been driving on. had | not been bound and
properly secured, there was no doubt that | would have been flying
all over.
| may have just jinxed it by thinking that because the entire vehicle jumped up like it had tried to drive over a boulder. my head hit
the roof of the vehicle and | winced loudly from the pain. it was only after the sound had escaped me did | realize what a grave
mistake | had justmitted.
“Sh it, | think she is waking up. | got to go. I''ll meet you soon. The man said rapidly as he hung up.
My entire b*dy grew stiff as | froze not knowing what to expect. It didn’t help that | couldn’t see a thing and all | had to rely on was
my hearing. The car slowed down but not enough for it to be halted but just enough so that the man could reach over and cover
my nostrils would a cloth that smelled stronger than thest one that was used on me.
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“You almost had me fooled. Heughed to himself but the sound did nothing to ease my b*dy before | cked out all over again.
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