Chapter 12
“Why would you do that?!” I yelled in shock. “You can’t just get out plans and cancel them.”
“I just did,” he smiled, leading me to a chair to sit with me. “Now, care to tell me how we are going to take out everyone?”
I was confused at what this man was capable of but I smiled at him and decided fighting over his choice was not worth the trouble.
“I haven’t brought up anything yet. But I was thinking that maybe you could bring something up.”
“Something like what?”
“I’d like to bring down my family’s company. If I can do that, I would have accomplished part of my goal before going for my ex-husband.”
“With this I think I can bring up a plan that we can all work with,” Travis said, pacing around the room. “Now all I have to do is call up some of my spies and they’ll have this done.”
“Have what done?”
“I’ve done this for an opposing company before and it was epic. All I need to do is plant people in the company, add in the viruses into the company servers as well as dropping in some spyware which would leak their classified client information and boom! we’ll have what we want.
“Once their classified client information is leaked it would make investors angry and they would pull out.”
I found this to be a genius plan. It was full-proof and I was sure this would work.
He made some calls and within a few hours we got calls from different people that the plan had been set and everything had been set in motion.
The only thing left to do was wait while the results started to roll in.
The next day, we had lots of people banging on our doors as they entered the apartment with charts, television and whatnot, setting up a lot around the hotel room.
I found it weird and walked to talk to Travis as I was still confused on why these strange people had barged into our living space.
“Drop that outside,” he ordered the people who set up the things. “I don’t want the kids running around and cutting the wires by mistake.”
“Hey, can I talk to you for a second?” I called his attention before walking to the kitchen. He followed me seconds later with a puzzled look.
“Is anything the matter?”
“Yes. Who are they and what are they doing?”
“Oh, they’re setting up the charts so we can watch your family’s company crumble. I thought it would be satisfying to watch them fall to nothing.”
“Oh,” I held my breath. I had not thought about it like that. “Well, if you put it like that then there is no problem. We can work with that.”
“I also took the liberty of putting in cameras in the office so you would see how they react to their company falling.”
This had me laughing excitedly as I wanted so badly to see the looks on their faces and how they would react to the company dying.
After the workers were done setting everything up, we waited to see how everything would play out.
The first day didn’t go as planned as only a few investors found out about their identity being given to the public which had them leaving the company in a hurry.
I got angst as I drank more drinks than I was supposed to with Travis helping me with the kids.
I watched the charts go down gradually but it wasn’t enough for me. I needed more to go down before I would be truly satisfied.
The second day was the same as the first which had me thinking that maybe this would take longer than ever.
“Zen?” Travis called to me as I turned to him aggressively, getting him to point to the children who were staring at me with sadness in their eyes. I had totally forgotten about them and here I was focusing on my family’s downfall. “You’re doing all of this for them, right?”
“Yeah,” I sighed.
“Then focus on them while I focus on taking down the people who hurt you. I promised that I would deliver and that is what I’m doing. Focus on the kids, let me focus on the charts.”
Taking his words for it, I pushed aside my revenge plans as I decided to get my children back to shape.
Travis throughout the week he stayed in the hotel did not sleep in his own room but slept in my apartment. He slept in the living room in front of the charts and cameras monitoring everything.
On the sixth day, he called me early in the morning to tell me that more than ten major investors had pulled out.
I rushed to the charts to see he was not lying. I found my mother mad at this discovery as she called the family together with the board for a meeting on how to get the company back up.
None of them could pinpoint where it had all gone wrong and they all blamed each other which started to get into a fight.
I had not seen them in a very long time and having to see them now brought so many memories. My mother had aged a little bit with Aurora being a bit more mature than before.Text content © NôvelDrama.Org.
I could not see my father as he was out of the camera range but from the faces the board of directors made, they were not expecting this.
“This is all your fault mother for letting Zendaya break off the meeting with the president and now we can’t ask him for help,” Aurora accused her mother.
Travis picked up his phone and scheduled a meeting with the family as someone entered the room and whispered the news to the old woman.
She relayed the message to everyone in the room as they all agreed to meet with him. They had no choice.