"Any more question?" Kathryn asked her proposal team as they prep for their presentation at Zetrov headquarters.
"No boss, every thing is clear" choruses her team.
"You may go and everything you need, we leave in five" kathryn instructed before dismissing her team.
"Are you nervous?" Rebecca asked Kathryn who stood in front of the floor to ceiling window in her office that overlooked the metropolis.
"No, not really...why?" She asked turning to look at rebecca who sat at the edge of the table.
Crossing her hands over her chest, she stared at Kathryn for a good one minute. "It just looks like you no longer want to go ahead with the proposal for the partnership with Zetrov, and you are just doing it because it was part of your plan from the beginning" Rebecca said calming gauging her reaction.
Kathryn smiled warmly at Rebecca, she knew her too well, it was a perfect diagnosis and she was spot on. Ever since she realised how she felt about Davin she had tried to not involve him in her life in any capacity, be it work or anything personal and save him from any form of problems regarding Carlos. But the more she tried to push him away the more her hearts yearns for him, she wants to talk to him, be around him even if its just business, that's why she had been conflicted on whether she should continue or just drop out of the competition to form a partnership with Zetrov.
"Yes, I mean No, I still want to go ahead with the proposal, I mean it would be a life changing collaboration for this company, and it would be unfair to just pull out of the competition just because I am trying to avoid him....even though I want him" she said the last part in her heart.
"And not to talk of the narrative the media will run it, it will damage the company's reputation and I wouldn't want that, so Yes I will go head with the proposal and I will win the company the partnership" she said resolutely.
Rebecca smiled but like she had always known Kathryn, and like always she knew Kathryn was holding back on something.
"But..." Rebecca said urging her to continue as she hadn't arrived on the reason why she was having cold feet.
Sighing Kathryn gave up trying to pretend that Rebecca wouldn't see through her rambling.
"But regardless of everything that is on the line I'm still having cold feet, I dont know why...maybe because.."
"Because you are in love with him, and you dont know what you are supposed to do with that feeling, giving everything that is on the line.."
"Did I do well to summarise how you are feeling?" Rebecca said smirking..
"No, i'm not...com'on i'm not in love with Davin, it is not what it is, I just don't want him get caught up in the crossfire that all" Kathryn said as a matter of fact.
"The wrinkle in between your brows says otherwise" Rebecca said chuckling.
"What, what do you mean?" Kathryn said touching her temple.
"I mean, whenever you lie, a small wrinkle appear inbetween your eyes" Rebecca calmly explained, trying so hard to hold her laugh.
"That's a lie" Kathryn said pouting.
"Oh it have appeared again" Rebecca said laughing out loud at the gruntled look on her face.
There were still bantering eachother when there was a knock on the door.
"Come in" Rebecca said as Pierce and Yvette walked in.
"Pierce you will be going with me to Zetrov, an Yvette you will coming with me too" Kathryn said, getting herself ready.
"Alright I will arrange three of my men to go with us" he said before turing to leave.
"No, it's just a twenty minutes journey, we dont need that much attention, you are enough" Kathryn said before carring her bag and heading for the door.
"Yes ma'am" he said as followed her out and into the elevator.
The company's car had already taken some of her team involved in the proposal to Zetrov to get everything sorted as they, the executives arrived later.
Pierce drove the ladies, Kathryn, Rebecca and Yvette and informed his team to stand by and expect a call from him if anything unexpected come up. For some reason his instinct was telling him something but he was yet to decode what it was so he made preparation ahead in case of any unexpected suprise.
They were already five minutes away from reaching Zetrov, when a big trunk driving with maximium velocity came out from the intersection and rammed their SUV with a loud bang into the side of the road, causing the passengers to jam their head hard on the bulletproof glass window.
Yvette was already unconscious and blood was running down her face, Rebecca was slightly conscious as she was sitting in the middle, Rebecca was awake but the whole place was twirling and she couldnt really concentrate.
Shaking her head to clear her head,she reached her hand and checked if Yvette was still alive, thankfully she was, but she needed medical attention as she was bleeding profusely.
"Is everyone ok?" Pierce asked as soon as he came to.
"We are alive, but we need to take Yvette to the hospital, can you drive" Kathryn asked but her voice was getting slower as she spoke. Just then a warm liquid trailed down her face, she touched it, it was blood.
Just then, Five men came down from the trunk with guns, coming towards them. Pierce had already sent a distress signal to his men and they were on their way.
He tried once again to start the car but it was futile.
"Do you have guns in this car?" Kathryn requested, but looking at how pale she was, Pierce calculated that she would definately fall unconscious anytime soon.
"I have guns, but its useless at this point, Just hold on a bit longer,my men are on the way and I have called 911 and besides the car is bulletproof so they cant get in" Pierce assured
Looking at the men approaching them, she doubted if the glass could hold them for long.
"Not with that Barrett .50 calibre rifle, it wouldn't take long for them to break through the glass if they start shooting, the glass is the strongest bulletproof car in the country but their is so much bullet from that rifle it can take" Kathryn said sighing.
Just then the men, five of them fired at them, first round but it left no mark on the glass.
Looking at Rebecca who had peacefully laying on the seat unconscious, kathryn pushed her hair that cascaded on her face to the side of her face and smiled bitterly..if she was going to die today, she would make sure Rebecca doesn't go with her.
Kissing her on her temple she turned to Pierce with a icy look that he had never seen on her, he shuddered, because the person in front of her was entirely different.
"The guns now, and I have a plan" kathryn said, repackaging her hair in a pony tail.
If she waited around for help, the men might succeed getting through the glass, so they needed to save themselves and fast.
She explained to him how they would get out of the car from the other side, since the car was tinted, the gunmen wouldn't know which way they would come from, so Pierce and Kathryn succeeded in disengaged the left side of the door from its hinges and and came down from the car, using the bulletproof glasses as a shield.
Coming around the car, they came face to face with the men and bullet started flying, being a sharpshooter, she shot down two of the men headshot, pierce killed one and two ran away, both injured as they had sustained gun shots on their thigh and shoulder respectively.
Just then her men drove in together with Arthur.
"Kathryn" he called out, his face ashen as he had imagined the absolute worst when he heard of the accident and saw the footage of the men firing at their car.
"Hey, you missed the party" she said smiling before slumping..