Valentina Lombardi was wearing a flowing long white dress complimenting her form and had her blonde hair tied in a knot. She had a little makeup on her face, accentuating her green eyes prettily, on and on she was stunning. Jean was looking at her, his mouth wide open when Amal was more discreet in his admiration. Robert had none of that.
"Who is she?" He asked, looking at Nathaniel.
"She's the reason you could walk out of the jet and not be waited on by two cops ready to put you in custody." Nathaniel answers with a frown. "Let me introduce you. Robert Lyndon, I present to you Valentina Lombardi, one of the best lawyers in this city. Valentina Lombardi, Robert Lyndon, CEO and founder of the Lyndon Label and my very own grandfather even if I'm still waiting on the DNA result to be sure of that." He adds the last bit with humor, making Jean and Amal turning their head to hide an amused smile.
"Thanks for your work Miss Lombardi." Robert said after giving an annoyed stare to his grandson.
"Glad to be of assistance and glad to meet you Mister Lyndon." She answers, shaking his hand.
"Okay now that it's done, Me and Miss Lombardi need to talk outside alone. Grandpa, Scott is going to stay by your side to protect you while I'm away. I know what happened between you two while I was sleeping so I need you to put that on the side. He's extremely competent and dedicated to his work and that of all things should be something you respect."
"I don't recall the time when you became my boss." He said frowning.
"I'm not but in this particular instance I'm more competent than you so you should follow my lead, like I do when you are giving me advice on my new company. I'm going now, Amal I'm counting on you to make sure everyone plays nice alright?"
"Yes sir, you can count on me." Amal nodded.
"Good man. Jean take care." Nathaniel said, smiling and putting his hand on Amal's shoulder before exiting the room with Valentina.
Exchanging a few words with Scott to let him know what he needed to do in Nathaniel's absence, he walked with Valentina until they were alone.
"So how is everything going?" Nathaniel asked.
"For the most part, it's good. Since the police found a lot of incriminating evidence in the Head of the Police home, the Mayor and the government were too busy trying to sweep all of it under the rug rather than trying to find the people who really did it. They now know that it was not the Cosa Nostra who were responsible for the attack but can't launch an official investigation when they are trying to hide that a significant number of police officers were corrupt and collaborated with terrorists."
"Good, that was what I was hoping would happen. Do you have information on the man I told you to look into?"
When Scott, Amal and Nathaniel had broken into Khalid Rahal's home and taken down his whole family, they took all the files that he had on a variety of topics, one of them was the people they had in various countries to help them find the target to kidnap. Here in Italy, that person was the assistant of the economic adviser, that was also him that put the now deceased head of the Rome Police and Khalid in contact.
"Yes, I have. He did not come to work this morning and his place in Rome was put on sale. I'm guessing he left after learning of the two explosions in Riyadh. He also emptied his bank account before leaving, he's on the run." Valentina said, giving him a file.
"Thanks, this is going to help immensely into finding him." Nathaniel said, smiling after having looked at the file in question.
"Don't forget, we have a date scheduled for tonight, don't be late."
"You still want to go through with this?" He sighed.
"We made a deal, I continue to work with you and ignore your vigilante side and in exchange you are taking me on a date in the best restaurant in the city. Are you going back on your word now?" She frowned.
"I give you my word and I will keep it. I will be there tonight and on time. I'm just surprised that you would go to such lengths to just eat with me when I'm guessing many people would beg to only have the chance of taking you out for a night so why me?"
"I would tell you tonight if you are playing your cards right." She smiles enchantingly before leaving.
Shaking his head, smiling, Nathaniel looked at her walking away from him until he shook himself out of it. There was still one person that needed to be hunted and if Nathaniel was anything, he was a hunter.
*****
New York, Lyndon Tower. 12/12/2012. 14:00.
In the CEO office, Diane Lyndon, her daughter Mary and Lina Campbell were having a meeting. Since they had learned that the mission of Nathaniel was a success the mood of Diane and Mary had improved greatly but that did not mean everything was alright here either. The board was making more demands and was demanding to see Robert soon or they were going to invalidate his presidency.
It was no secret that the person behind that move was Bryan Bones. Even if the imagination of Lina made him suffer a setback in his plan, he had quickly recovered and launched a new and more legal offensive to be made president of the board.
"Why are they not coming right back? We need Robert here, what is Nathaniel thinking?" Diane said exasperated.
"He said he had one more thing to take care of in Rome before coming back. He would not delay if it was not an important matter, mom. He told me they will be back tomorrow, we just have to schedule a meeting with the board for tomorrow and once they will see dad in the flesh, this whole mascarade is going to end." Mary answers.
"Yes, that may be but I want Bryan to suffer a little before I go back home and Robert takes back his rightful place." She said angrily, she knew that it was because she had come back that Bryan attacked her like that, there was a lot of bad blood between the two of them.
"Yes, I understand mom but what do you have in mind?"
"I don't know but I want him to pay."
At that moment Lina said something in an unintelligible voice that made Diane and Mary turn in her direction.
"What did you say Lina?" Mary asked.
"I killed him." She said a little stronger making the two others womens in the room eyes wide.
"What did you say? You killed him?" Diane asked dumbfounded.
Looking at the reaction her words provoqued, Lina was lost until an alarmed expression painted on her face.
"No! Not that, not physically! I killed him on paper! As of today, Bryan Bones is dead for the IRS, banks, credit score institution, administration. Even a couple of local newspapers announce his death. He's going to have a hard time getting back his life. I just put him in an administrative hole." Lina said, smirking.
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Looking amazed at the girl in front of them, the Lyndon pair started to laugh out loud until tears came out of their eyes and they were clutching their stomach in laughter.
"Oh my god. He will never see it coming." Mary continued laughing.
"Where did you have the idea to do something like that?" Diane asked after her fit of laughing subside but they were still a huge smile on her face.
"Nathaniel gave me strict instruction to make every person who would want to take advantage of you while he was away pay. I saw it in a movie a long time ago. Hackers do something like that and I always wanted to try it. I found it quite fun even if that was extremely difficult to achieve." She smiled.
"Well, I hope you have nothing planned for this afternoon, you are going to come with us and do some shopping." Diane said getting to her feet.
"What?" Lina asked, surprised.
"You are coming with us Lina, you deserve to have a little bit of fun for what you just did." Mary said, ushering the girl by the door. "Let's go on a shopping spree." She shouted joyfully.