Chapter Two: Another Attack

Twelve years later...

Yvonne was sitting on her office chair working on some important paperwork unpleased with what she saw she asked

"Who did this crazy shit here? "

"Ma’am it was the secretary” Phoebe answered, Phoebe, is Yvonne P.A at Zima Air

"And you did not bother to cross-check it uh,” she asked bluntly

"You asked me to give you the files immediately” Phoebe answered

"That is not enough reason not to check it, Phoebe, I can see you are lacking behind in your job seems like you are tired of it "Yvonne bawled

"No ma’am, I promise to do better,” Phoebe said carefully to avoid making Yvonne angry.

"I don't need you to do better I need you to do your best stupid, now leave,” she said in an authoritative voice, but Phoebe didn't leave she stood still.

"Are you deaf? "She asked annoyingly

"No ma’am actually there is something I noticed about the stocks,” Phoebe said, if it was others they would have scrambled out of the office immediately Yvonne stared at them with that icy eyes of hers, but Phoebe was already accustomed to it.

"And what did you notice,” she asked

" I noticed the rate at which the stocks were dropping was high, I decided to check the account, I found out that someone was tampering with the account because the account record was falsified and also the stock was disconnected from the indexes that tracked it, "Phoebe said

"Who is the CFO and the brokerage supervisor," Yvonne asked

"The CFO is Mr. Donaldo and the brokerage supervisor is Mr. Kim " Phoebe replied

"Good, send those files to me, after doing that arrange for an urgent meeting in the next two hours, "Yvonne said

"Yes ma’am will do it right away,” Phoebe said and went away.

These board members are already growing wings, let's see how far they will go when I teach these crazy people a very good lesson.

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{ At the international airport}

"Wow, it is so good to see you, bro! ” Reece exclaimed as he happily hugged his brother.

Reece was just coming back from China, he actually went there for a long tour. Right now he is one of the youngest popular painters in the world and he is also known for his sweet words. Only a few people know that he is the son of Hawkins.

"I’m glad to see you too, "Albert said with a straight face.

"How is it that you have not changed during my stay in China, can't you even smile for at least a second? Tsk, no wonder you weren't even able to have at least one girlfriend in school, I pity the girl who would later marry you” Reece said as he tsked

"All you have to think about is yourself, you do not need to bother yourself about me, you have a long life ahead of you," Albert said

"Stop talking like you are going to die and mind you I am the first born so stop speaking like you are older than me, "Reece said as he pouted

"But you are the one always acting like a kid so I took the responsibility from you, enough of the talking let's head back to the car I have waited long enough for you to come, I need you to help me at the office as soon as possible” Albert said

"What? Help who? Plusss am focusing more on my career right now and you are the CEO "Reece said

"You can still do them but the company is more important, "Albert said

"Are you going on a date? ” Reece asked curiously because he never expected this workaholic brother to ask him to join him in the office, yet he did not get any answer from Albert, only his poker face.

"I wonder why you became my twin bro, such an annoying crazy cold brother,” Reece snorted as he entered the car.

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[Zima Air]

In a room, you could see men and women with the same emotions in them FEAR. Yvonne had forced them to eat hot soup, I mean spicy hot soup, one a man can't eat without drinking water, like 5 liters I guess, very hot and hard to swallow.

"Start eating now,” she said in an authoritative voice.

"Please can you get me a glass of water, "one of the board members asked the waiter who served the food with a pleading look? He had the guts to do that because he had an ulcer and so his stomach was burning up. He felt like he would die soon, but that was not Yvonne's concern.

No one must give them water till they are through with the soup " Yvonne chimed in an authoritative tone.

" I see you guys are trying to overstep your boundaries uh," She gazed at all of 'em in the meeting room with blazing eyes.

"It seems you guys are planning something behind my back" she added, those who knew what she was talking about became terrified while the oblivious ones were trying to understand what she was talking about. They were confused.

"No, no ma'am we won't dare to do that," Mr. Mark said

"Are you part of them ..... Mark," she questioned as she focused on him completely, could not handle the piercing eyes, he bent his head down and apologized.

"I'm sorry chair lady, I dare not do that "

"But someone is trying to embezzle my hard-earned money" she pointed out

"We can't defy you," Mr. Rogers the secretary said.

"Wow, Mr. Rogers, really appreciate what you said, you just lifted half of my burden " Yvonne chirped. Mr. Rogers smiled satisfactorily, thinking he had achieved a great thing by pleasing Yvonne, at least he would not get punished while others are.

"Phoebe" the sassy C.E.O called

"Ma'am " she answered

" I want you to give Rogers another bowl of soup, seems he is practically smartly stupid, I just can't believe I am filled up with dense people in my office" She complained with a snort.

" I would gladly do that, her grace" Phoebe said with a smile, of course, she had been waiting to do something like this to Rogers, he was on her black book and so today ain't his lucky day. The man has been on her neck ever since she started working at Zima air and so this was payback time for her.

"Pls don't do this, I am actually satisfied with the ones I have " He begged still eyeing Phoebe

"Make it three," Yvonne said

"Please ma'am, I am telling you for real I feel good" He pleaded again, now on his knees.

"Make it four" She added, the rest of the members looked at the old man pitifully, had it been he shut his blabbered mouth up this would have not happened to him. The pity did not last for long since they all started using their hands to blow their mouths, it was too spicy and hot.

"Ronaldo and Kim" Yvonne called, the CFO and brokerage supervisor both stood up shaking in fear, and shame filled their faces.

"Trying to steal from me... A very bad thing. Do you think I would not know that you are collaborating with a vendor to overbill and then split proceeds as a kickback, hiding compensation expenses and lining your pocket with the proceeds of stock options, tsk, tsk, you just did something foolish without thinking of the consequences" She spat out in total annoyance.

"Well, your punishment is simple, you just have to meet me in court, be well prepared, and also do not take anything from the office because you are Fired! Leave my company without facing back, and when next you step your foot in this company just know that you are dead " She ordered, they scrambled on their knees and started begging her. They knew the first word she spoke was lethal to them, going to court was a No option, because the law would wreck them, they had to look for another option better than this.

Being so irritated with their noise she decided to chase them off, of course, they can't go scot-free even after going to court, she would also teach them a private lesson.

Yvonne glared at them for the last time before she stood up and walked out, not giving them a chance to explain themselves. She is a vicious woman of her word, however, she had taken the matter lightly, because her mind wasn't there, she was thinking about her mom who is gravely ill.

Her mom was suffering from cancer and she is in her last stage no one knows about this apart from her dad and now... she feels so sad, her mom is in her comfort zone and her comfort zone is very ill yet she does not know what to do.

"Take me to the clubhouse,” She said to the driver immediately after she entered the car.

[Club House]

It has not even been an hour since she reached the clubhouse when she saw a message from her dad.

Your mom just had another attack

On seeing the message she stood up and left, not caring about the person she barged into.

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Reece was sitting at the VVIP table with his friends having fun when he saw her, at first he thought he was daydreaming, rubbed his eyes couple of times, yet she was still there, it has been twelve years since he last saw her, still, she has been on his mind all those twelve years, his mind had given up long ago but his heart has not, seeing her today made his day more joyous so Reece gathered up morale to go meet her.

"Hey bro, where are you going?” James, one of his college friends, had asked.

"Am coming" He answered and walked to her direction, in a blink of an eye she stood up and rushed out bumping into him what could have been the matter Reece thought as he looked at the exit...