At the Almond group...........
"To answer the last question asked by Ms. Agatha from Light media, three years ago, the Ford group didn't go after the Almond group as regards the stolen proposal because we lacked concrete evidence.
We didn't want to raise unnecessary alarms without having something to back it up, but as it stands, we have strong evidence to back the company up if the law is involved.
As per how the perpetrators would be dealt with, all the matters are left in the hands of the Almond group.
Thank you every......"
Before Arnold could conclude his speech, Chairman Almond, turned the screen off and threw the remote control at his son Fredrick.
By the time, Fredrick thought to move away, it was too late, and the remote hit him on the forehead leaving swollen red patch making him scowl at his father.
"What, you want to hit me now that you are taller than me?" asked the angry Chairman. Steam could be seen coming out of his ears.
"No, father," answered the timid Fredrick
He could go against most people by being rowdy, but the Chairman is someone Fredrick wasn't willing to cross. So, even if he was hurt, he bit his tongue and held in his anger.
"How can, some so incompetent like you, be my son? Three years since you took over the management of the company and look at the results. I built this company from where my father had left it on a two-story building. I won't let you crumble it to the ground.
I have had enough of your incompetence and unruly behavior. I have always told you that being in a position of power doesn't warranty this kind of behavior, but you never listened, now here we are,"
Chairman Almond, hit his hands on the table and sat down rubbing his head because of the headache.
"I am sorry, father. I was wrong" the alarms in Fredrick's head were sounding and he sensed the danger and gravity of his actions
He had never seen his father this angry over the years, even when went below the belt with his unruly behavior. He had really overdone himself with this one. Alex Ford did live up to his name.
"Remember the warning I gave you last year, after that accident. It was your last chance, Fredrick. I am calling your sister to return home. At least your God was kind enough to live one sane child for me."
"Father, could you give me at least one chance, please" Fredrick begged
He knew of his sister Francene's capability. She was competitive and strong-headed.
"I am tired of looking at your ungrateful face, please get out. You are giving me a headache"
Fredrick turned to leave the Chairman's office dejected "And by the way," the chairman called out making Fredrick stop and look back at him "break every kind of connection that you have with that Tina girl. How can you hang around with someone of her kind?"
Chairman looked at his son and shook his head in disappointment and sent him out of his office by waving his hand. Fredrick opened the door and went out.
As he walked away from his father's office, Fredrick was pulled by someone into an empty office,
"What the hell, Tina?" He asked as soon as he knew who had done it
"It's me, Fredrick" Tina said as she held on to his arm intimately
Fredrick pulled his hand out of hers roughly and glared at her. He was really angry with himself for falling victim to her schemes.
As matters stood at the moment, he could possibly lose his position as the President of the company to his sister.
"I am done, Tina. Please, lose my number, and don't you ever show your face anywhere near me" Fredrick snarled
"Fredrick, what happened? Why are you speaking to me in such a manner?" Tina asked innocently or pretended not to know what was happening
"What happened is that you are such a conniving bitch. To think that I thought that what we had was special only for me to find out that you were using me all along,"
Everything else aside, Fredrick was hurting, and it worsened with the way his father talked down on him "You are so selfish, but you know what, I don't blame you. I actually blame myself for heeding everything that you said like a puppet. I am the fool here. Stay away from me"
He then opened the door and left the room with Tina trying to understand everything that had just happened.
She had pulled Fredrick aside to find out about her situation because as it stood, things had gone out of hand.
Tina couldn't deny anything that Fredrick had said because most of them were true. Yes, she was a selfish bitch. Someone who got close to people because they had something to give and she had something to collect.
Anyone who added nothing or had nothing to give was considered useless. This could also explain why no one in the company liked her. Being selfish and conniving was the only survival method she knew, especially after growing up with a father like Mr. Johnson.
Everyone "respected" her because of the relationship with the President that she had flaunted publicly to state her power.
But now, everything was crumbling around her, and the only rope she was holding onto was completely getting cut.
She opened the door to follow Fredrick to his office, not believing that he had cut her off completely. That man had eaten from her palm like he was under a spell for almost three years now.
Tina didn't believe that Fredrick would push her away if she offered him her gorgeous body. She wouldn't go down without a fight.
As she walked through the company to get to the President's office since it was on the other side of the Chairman's, Tina realized that the Chairman's secretaries and those of the President were openly sneering at her.
They were the least of her problem so she continued ahead, only to look at the screen in the lounge.
It had her picture and that of her father accompanied by a statement that sent chills down her spine. They were called thieves, and the company fired them without pay for causing losses to the company.
Tina and her father Mr. Johson had been sued by the company. After the Ford group claimed back their project and eighty percent of the profits they had made over the three years course, the Almond group could only sue the father-daughter duo to refund the money that they had invested in the project.