In Stone Mansion country D
There was a huge noise of phone breaking. Old Stone, his son Danial and Danial's daughter Antonia rushed to the hall. There, Danial Stone saw his angry wife, Sophia.
Stone family is today the richest and most powerful family in the whole country D and it's all thanks to Sophia's brilliant mind and her underworld connection. Stone family's legal business involves jewelry, clothing, the mall, and shipping. But they account for only 55 percent of their revenue, the rest 45 percent of their most of revenue came from the illegal businesses. Among them, major were the mining of diamonds in a secret mine and Chemical manufacturing. This was initially Henry's Family business but since Sophia was their only heir she inherited them along with other illegal underworld businesses of Henry's family. This made the Stone family untouchable in the whole country D.Though Sophia inherited them, she with her brilliant mind developed a great illegal system and machinery. Through her right-hand man, Gefry, she controlled all of her illegal business at the same time she publicly projected herself as a normal household wife of Stone Enterprise CEO Danial Stone. Even though Danial was a capable leader he was nowhere near her wife Sophia. No one knows that the secret designer of Stone's clothes and jewelry was Sophia herself. She through her connection with the underworld controls the Stone Enterprise board members. She was known in the underworld as 'Miss knight' and was considered the Mafia Queen in the whole world. She also has many orphanages under her name which helped her to recruit the future Stone army.
"What happened Sophia. Why are you so angry, calm down".Daniel asked. He had never seen his wife in so much anger.
"Calm down! how can I when that Avalina Facci ruined every plan that I was preparing for months? She even inspired so much fear in other European organizations that no one want to go against the Facci 's now"
Danial was surprised that her wife's plan was ruined by someone else. He never thought that anyone else was capable to ruin his wife's brilliant plans. Antonia was surprised too. She never thought anyone was capable of challenging her mom.
"Avalina Facci? Who is she? Even if she was able to ruin your plan this time I know that you will find another way. You are the most intelligent person I ever knew. So don't worry. Do you have any pictures of Avalina"
"No, that is the issue. There is no photo of hers. She is very secretive. I heard that she is the adopted daughter of Arnold Facci. It is said that it was she who built the small Facci organization into a European power. Today after their takeover of the Ricci, they will become unstoppable in Europe. Both their legal and illegal business which were already powerful will now become unbeatable in Europe. Now it will become even more difficult for us to expand our footprint in European countries." There was concern in Sophia's voice. She never was afraid of any of her opponents but deep down she had a feeling that she has met her match
"So like you are secret strategist of Stone she is like behind the scene boss of Facci! Don't worry Sophia, no one is better than you ."
Danial then looked at his daughter Antonia and said " Even if you were not able to produce another Sophia then I don't think any other woman will be able to " Danial said. He was clearly mocking his daughter. Even though she was a capable businesswoman and talented she was nowhere near her mother.
Sophia spent a sizable amount of time training her but to her disappointment, her daughter never showed her natural talents.
Little did they know Avalina was his and Sophia's real daughter who got switched with Antonia at birth.
"Dad! you don't need to mock me. You know how capable my mom is. I will never be as good as her. I also don't think this Facci girl will be anywhere near her abilities. My mom is a great designer and fighter. She trains all her soldiers herself. Do you think any other women will have that ability? She may be the best fighter in the whole world." Antonia said. She was always proud of her mother and considered herself lucky to be her daughter.
Old Stone saw all this. He also heard about Avalina even before Danial and Antonia. He knew some of her strategies and missions. He knew if there is one woman who can challenge Sophia then it was Avalina.
"Take Avalina seriously. She is a force to reckon with." Old Facci said. He always respects talented people and never looks down on them especially if he never met them personally.
"Dad what are you saying. Is she that big gangster?" Danial was surprised by his father's opinion.
Old Stone was shaking his head at his son's ignorance before replying "Avalina is not just a Gangster. The one who needs a powerful Gang to win a battle is a Gangster. Avalina doesn't need her gang. The gang needs her. She alone is enough to win a battle. "
Old Stone then let out a sigh, "There is a saying in Europe's underworld: 'Everybody here is a gangster till they see the monster"' ."Daniel, that monster is Avalina. Facci organization doesn't make her powerful but she is the one who makes the Facci powerful."
His words had a huge impact on others. Butler Sander who was standing near them was also surprised at how all of them were afraid of this one woman named Avalina Facci. He now knew that Sophia has met her match.
All were in their deep thoughts.
Six Months Later
Facci legal business of Airlines, Shipping, IT company, and cosmetics were all doing very well in the European market. After their acquisition of Ricci's business, no one was there to challenge them in Europe.
Facci's illegal business of Gun and ammunition( based in Russia), Gold smuggling were also doing well.
Avalina was discussing with Facci Enterprise CEO Meg and Facci's illegal business representative Guan. They both were like dummy leaders. They were there in the company to execute her orders. Right now Avalina holds 45 percent of Facci cooperation while other Facci V members hold a total of 12 percent, three percent each. She also gifted them each an expensive sports car. These were given by her to them 6 months ago for being her loyal friends. She also gifted a huge mansion each to Butler Jess and Anna. She knew even if they don't expect anything in return but she can't take their support for granted.No one supports anyone without expecting anything in return.
She knew this very well and even if she believed them she sometimes kept spies around them. For this, she used her secret security agency White Security. This was an agency that she had formed 10 years ago.
Its CEO is an old special Force trained man, George who lost his legs in a mission. Avalina secretly met him at his lowest point in life. She convinced him to be her newly established security agency's head. She also helped his daughter Glory with money for her foreign studies and her dialysis treatment. His daughter is now a highly respected businesswoman and CEO of Onela Investment firm.
Onela is an American-based mysterious investment company with a worth of 10 billion USD that was formed 6 years ago. It was also founded by Avalina when she was just 19 years old. It was like her secret business war weapon.
Within 6 years it became a big investment firm in America. Whenever Facci enterprise needed money Onela Holdings helped them to improve their free cash flow.
This company has shares in various big corporations and within the next decade, it will surely become the world's richest holdings company.
George and Glory were highly indebted to her. Everything they had now was because of Avalina.
She sometimes visits them in their house and maintains a very good relationship with them. This gives her a family feeling and also helps her reinforce their loyalty to her.
The White Security Firm now is one of the most famous security firms in Europe and America. Their Security members were mostly special force retired soldiers and senior policemen and Attorneys. Due to this Government bodies indirectly cooperates with them for some of their operations.
Avalina named both of these organizations based on her old name "Enola (Onela ) White. The amount of torture, humiliation, and bullying she faced during her childhood made her determined to show this world who she was. She now loved her friends but that was not the case 15 years ago. Even though they had accepted her as a member of Facci V, she was not able to forget all their bullying and body shaming for having a burnt face.
For years she wore a Facade among them. She wished to somehow gain total control of Facci. Luckily for her, Francis was a non-capable child of Arnold Facci.
She worked harder and outshone everyone in Facci V.She knew she needed her own backup. That's why she formed the White Security and later the Onela Holdings by secretly diverting Facci Enterprise money.
The Recci organization destruction plan was not as simple as it seem. She was planning that for a whole 4 years. Instead of using Facci, she used White Security to try to infiltrate their secret organization. But after years of trying she was only able to plant 2 of her spies there. That day she lied before Facci members and Richard Ricci. The Ricci members didn't simply allow them to pass inside ignoring security checks but it was one of her 2 spies who were monitoring the base entry gate.
If she used Facci members then that plan would have easily gotten exposed.
She knew beforehand about Donald's betrayal because of the White Agency spies she used.
When she gave Butler Jess to choose between her and Francis, she had already arranged for White agency soldiers to snipe him down if he chooses Francis against her. Had she used Facci members then, Butler Jess would have easily found out later considering his influence in the organization.
After that day's event, Avalina started to truly love Facci V, butler Jess, and Anna. She also started to understand Arnold and his decisions. Right now she even feels guilty for not showing them her whole self.
All she can do now is believe them more and love them truly.