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Aubrey was working on his laptop in his office ever since he arrived in the morning. He never once asked for the assistant to make him some coffee or tea. He was trying to make himself busy and he succeeded. This way, nobody would come and bother him.
He stopped suddenly when he noticed some error in the report handed over by the accounting department. Aubrey took the phone on the desk and he pressed the intercom for his immediate assistant.
"Get me someone from the accounting department now.", he put the phone down.
Some minutes later, a woman with a tight pencil skirt came in. She was a deputy head of the accounting department, Jean Kim. She was beautiful and elegant, and also tall.
"I'm from the accounting department, CEO Lee. What can I do for you?", she asked while smiling sweetly. Her voice sexy and held some flirty tone beyond it. Her body was also alluring, was she coveting someone?
"How did your department do your job?", Aubrey didn't even spare her a glance as he talked. He dumped the files on the desk for her to see.
Jean Kim bended down for a little to see the files. She didn't bother taking it in her hands while that would be the best and common choice. Her curve around her chest was visible and she did it intentionally for him to see. Aubrey wasn't a man with much experience when dealing with women, he didn't realize what this Jean was trying to do. But seeing her in such weird position made him feel quite repulsed, he raised his brow.
"Get up, or your back might get sore.", he said, as to which made her blush in embarrasment. Was he trying to tell her that he wasn't interested or was he blind?!
"I'm sorry..", she said, tucking her hair behind her ear, trying to appear innocent.
"Go and redo this report again in thirty minutes. If I don't get it by twelve, you're fired.", he gave the order, and then he continued working as if she wasn't even there.
Jean began to get irritated. Didn't he realize that she purposely made some mistakes in the report so that she could come here and meet him?
As she was leaving, Aubrey said something.
"Miss Kim, I advise you to be more serious in your work and don't do stupid mistakes just for fun. You're smart, you get it right?", he said while still working on his laptop.
He knew Lee Group was a company which regarded competence as the first and basic things employees should have. There was no way such simple mistakes would be done by the deputy head herself. She might had some strange motive(?).
Jean was stunned by the door, so he knew but pretended to be oblivious. Someone ordinary like her of course wouldn't be able to spark his interest.. not like that woman in the news.. Lucy Kim.
Jean gritted her teeth in silence as she walked out from his office, unsatisfied. This new appointed CEO was actually hard to please.
•••
Back to the underground base of city X, the man with the scar on his face was sitting comfortably on the couch. Based on his appearance, he was around late thirties of age. He chuckled when he received a mail from someone, it was Aubrey Lee.
He had contacted Aubrey two days ago and he was planning to use him to get another half of the underworld that was controlled by Adamson. But Aubrey wasn't stupid, he actually knew his intention and he asked for something in return. And so began the under-dealing of the two, for mutual benefits.
"Get Silas Lee out of the place and send him to me by tomorrow. If you failed, there won't be second chance.", the man who prefers himself to be called Q, smiled in mischief after he read the mail from Aubrey.
"Hm.. I knew there's something wrong with the previous chairman..", he said to himself.
He heard that the previous chairman, Silas Lee had been to seclusion after the fire, he was grieving for his dead son and daughter in law.
He didn't believe the rumor of course, since he found that Silas was actually held in a secluded villa near city T. He has been in coma for some years now, solely depending on the ventilator to keep him alive. And the first person he suspected of causing that was the current chairman, Adamson Lee.
"Interesting..", he smiled. So Lee family was in dispute. The power struggle between the first and second son was indeed very intriguing to watch.
Q promised to bring Aubrey his grandfather while Aubrey promised to give him Adamson's head. Quite a nice deal..
He then turned to his subordinate by his side.
"Track his whereabouts through the IP.", he said, giving the tablet to his man. He wanted to know where Aubrey was.
"Master, we've tried but the IP address is fake. We couldn't pinpoint the exact location.", one of his men said.
"Ah.. so he's a hacker.", Q laughed again. The game was starting to get more fun than ever. This young master Lee was unpredictable indeed.
"Should we accept the deal?", his man asked.
"Why shouldn't we?", Q said simply. He believed he could get his shares of profit in this deal. Although Aubrey was quite careful with him, he was still new and inexperienced in this field.
"He had been abroad for many years now. He didn't know how things actually work here.", Q said in a playful manner.
"I got a meeting for our weapons transport this evening, make sure you deal with this before I come back.", Q stood up and he disappeared into another room.
His henchmen began to plan out some strategies to breach the villa's security. Their boss would want to see them in action tomorrow.
•••
Adamson could feel something bad was going to happen. He realized that he was getting weak these past few weeks. He hadn't been in the underworld for some time now. His condition was getting worse by days.
Lee Group wasn't a clean company that does business according to laws. And that was the prime reason it became the pillar of economic growth. It gained dark support from behind and even the existing laws weren't able to beat the Group down to its knee.
But from the outside, Lee Group appeared to be pure and shining. It was Adamson who made it this way successfully. While he controlled half of the illegal underworld dealings, he also made sure to not mix it together with the front of the company. Like twilight, Lee Group stood between the good and the bad. This way, not many people would suspect and find prove of the illegal activities being made. That was how Lee Group was able to stand above all, in power and in wealth.
But perhaps it wouldn't stay this way much longer, since he was counting his days. He knew Aubrey has changed and it might be a good sign. Aubrey would one day replace him and govern both underworld and the company.
"But he isn't ready.", he said to himself. Maybe he should push him a little harder?