This made it so that Erica known as Dracon respected by both the young and old gang leaders.
At first, they did not like the idea of her being the underworld lord, and so some sent killers her way, while others threatened her openly, but she didn't take it to heart since she understood that some of the old gang leaders in the underworld grew up in that kind of community and her an outsider came and took the seat as the new lord, to which they could not take it calmly.
Since no one in their right mind would allow anyone to come into their territory and boss them around. And so she made a deal with them that if she was able to prove herself worthy of being their leader then they would work with her and accept her, but on a condition, that they would not question her way of handling things.
Once she came up with the idea of establishing a company, the gang leaders thought of it as a joke, but later came to know of its seriousness. The company itself was to be dealing with delivering security and armaments to the government, and also private institutions, for example, if one needed a bodyguard, or the government needed certain lawbreakers to be apprehended that gave them a hard time to finding or terrorists. The company also branches out into IT, it is known as the most reliable company when it comes to hacking and computer, and one last thing it also branches out to the entertainment industry.
Back to the meeting...
" Linda!" Erica called out as Dracon in a stern voice.
Linda immediately came forth and distributed some documents among the people in the meeting room.
"Start!" just one word from her, made the person suppose to give out the presentation already on his feet and already giving out the presentation.
After the presentation, Erica only nodded to give out the confirmation that the presentation was on par with her expectations, and just like that the meeting ended.
While the other shareholders were making their way out of the meeting room, they heard Erica's voice call out," Snakehead!"
with just one word, the called person knew that that indicated that he was to remain behind.
The others one after the other gave him a pat on the back while walking on their way out, some nodded their heads at him in a way of saying that everything is going to be okay while they left hurriedly, afraid that if they dragged themselves a second longer their names were to be called next, and who would want a private meeting with the angel of death, and of course, no one would want that.
After everyone had left, Snake's head slowly made his way to the sit not far and not near Erica either.
Linda closed the door with a bang, which nearly gave Snakehead a heart attack.
His heart kept going bump! bump!
and sweat trickled down his face even with the presence of the AC in the room.
Erica just examined the man, not knowing that her staring is making a certain someone pray to all the existing gods and almost pee on himself.
Snakehead kept having thoughts of how he was going to get killed without even knowing the reason why he was going to get killed.
Fortunately, Erica broke the staring and stood up from her sit.
'This is it! am going to die just like that and no one is going to find my corpse! Oooh my goodness am not even married yet, I should have listened to my mother when she persisted that I was to get married and give her an heir.!'
Snakehead was busy thinking that he did notice Erica standing right in front of him. When he came to his senses he almost lost his balance. He was so scared that at the moment he felt like calling out for her mother in hopes that she would hear him and come to his rescue.
He felt like laughing to himself for the way he was thinking when he was a gang leader and had seen death countless times.
' well, then I guess this is how death feels when one is close to it, that's why people do stupid things when they see that they are going to die.'
"How long should I wait for you to finish talking to yourself ?" Erica asked looking at Snakehead in amusement.
She never knew that the second most strongest person in the underworld was that scared of her.
' maybe it's the male face and mask that makes people scared of me, yeah maybe'
Erica was trying to convince herself that it's the male version of herself she has taken that has made her what she is not knowing that's exactly how she has become since the male face is just another mask and she is the one portraying the personality.
Snakehead realized that he thought aloud in which to hide his embarrassment he let out an awkward laugh, which also brought Erica back from her thoughts.
" So, Dracon why was I asked to stay behind? " Snakehead spoke first.
" You are second in command after me, and you have very good mercenaries right?" Erica asked.
"Yes, but.." Snakehead wanted to refute since his power did not reach even a quarter of what Erica had but Erica cut him off.
"Great! I would need some of your men to protect someone as shadows, I will be the one to pay you for your services."
"No! it's okay you have done a lot for us there is no need for payment between us when all the success we have is all due to you," Snakehead refused the payment, who in the underworld isn't grateful to Erica for the success they've been able to have.
" No, this is business and there are no relations when it comes to business, you will have to accept it," Erica said with a more cold voice to make Snakehead accept the payment.
but...
" I will not take the payment even if you chop my head off! I might be a good or gang leader but I never forget kindness, and kindness is paid by kindness." Snakehead said with resolution.
Erica let out a low sigh, but she was also happy that she made the right choice in choosing Snakehead to provide security for her younger brother.
"Okay, here are all the details of the person you're to offer protection to," she said stretching out some documents to Snakehead.
Snakehead went through the documents and couldn't help but ask," Is he someone important to you?"
"Yes! he is, so please choose your best people in this," Erica answered in a soft voice but not as soft as to sell herself out that she was a female and not male as she portrayed to be.
"Okay, I understand, and don't you think it would be much better if we were to protect him openly?"
"No! he is just a normal person I want him to have freedom and space so please let it be in the shadows"
"Okay, I'll take my leave now, if there is nothing else."
"You can go, thank you," Erica said as she made her way to her seat.
Snakehead went out with a question in his mind, not believing that the cold-blooded Dracon said please and that too twice.
Erica opened the document that she had just handed a copy to Snakehead and opened it. Inside was all the information about her brother stating he was an orphan with no family, and that he was living with his father's friend and his family.
It was also stated that he was a genius at computers.