Jorge could see the void in Kelvin eyes, his voice carried a tone of revenge. He knew that Kelvin was not joking when he said he would avenge his father's death.
"How do you intend to use Selena's power when she doesn't know the truth or are you going to tell her about it?" Jorge asked.
Tapping his fingers slowly on the desk, Kelvin said. "I'm still thinking about that but with her living with me I'll make use of it as an advantage."
"Hm..." Studying Kelvin's expression, "Is that really the reason you came here? To tell me all this?" He gave Kelvin a questionable look. He knows Kelvin and from his looks he could detect that Kelvin wasn't telling him everything.
"What?" Kelvin asked when he saw Jorge looking at him.
"What do you want to say?"
"Nothing." Kelvin shrugged his shoulder.
Jorge sent a sharp gaze towards Kelvin, he just couldn't pinpoint what was going through Kelvin's head. "Well, if you have nothing else to tell me...," Checking his wrist watch for the time. "It's time for the board meeting. Let's get going."
Jorge stood up, stretched a bit and picked up his phone. Walking towards the door, "Are you coming or not?" He asked
Kelvin stood up and followed Jorge. "Tell Selena to come to the meeting."
"Huh!.." Jorge was tongue tied. He sighed and walked to the Secretaries room, opening the door. "Lauren, tell Selena to come to the board meeting. It's an order from the CEO." He said and left.
"What did I just hear?" Lauren said in shock.
"This is interesting..., the CEO wants Selena to attend the board meeting? Wow!, Selena must be damn lucky. Miya said.
Lauren was too shocked by the news as she heard that anyone who wasn't part of the board members were never invited to the board meeting and now Selena was an exception and also the first.
"Ah! I really wish I did my internship under the CEO," Miya pouted.
"Hmm.., indeed Selena is lucky." Lauren said when she recovered from the shock.
She left the office and went to Kelvin's office. She entered and saw Selena fully immersed in a stack of files and walked to her back. Lauren cleared her throat in order to get Selena's attention.
"Sir?" Raising her head, Selena turned to Lauren. "Oh! Hey Lauren, I thought it was the boss. What are you doing here?" She asked
"The CEO wants you to attend the board meeting." Lauren delivered the message.
"Huh! Me? I'm...," Selena stammered
"I am as shocked as you are now when I heard it but you know, no one can question the CEO's orders. You have to go." Lauren said with a smile. "It's just a board meeting, I guess the boss wants you to learn from it." She added
"Okay, thanks for letting me know." Selena closed the file she was reading and dropped it on Kelvin's desk. "Let's go." She said and left to the conference room.
Just before Lauren passed the message to Selena. Kelvin and Jorge were seated comfortably on their seats in the conference room and each chairs round the long rectangular table were occupied with other board members.
"Can we begin the meeting now?" Miguel asked.
Miguel, a short man of 46 years old is the Chief Sustainability officer and an important character in the rising of the Mega World group of Companies. He wore a grey Italian suit that was well ironed and fitted. His Rolex watch costs a fortune and his style exuded confidence and wealth.
"No we're not complete." Kelvin said with a straight face.
Each member heard Kelvin's words and looked at one another with a questioning look. "Who's the last person?"
Jorge could see the confusion written on their faces. He looked at Kelvin only to see a stoic face void of any emotion.
'Pfft! I wonder how you all will react when you see who he's talking about.' He said in his head and relaxed himself.
After few minutes of waiting, the door opened and everyone's attention except Kelvin turned to see who it was.
Selena entered the conference room and she saw piercing eyes on her. She felt a knot in her stomach as she gulped her saliva in nervousness.
Jorge, sensing her discomfort, he spoke to clear the silent and shocked air. "Have your seat. We've been waiting for you." He said and gave her a gentle smile.
She nodded her head and walked towards the only free chair but she froze when she heard a cold husky voice that was filled with command.
"You're standing through out the meeting."
"Are you serious?" Jorge spoke for her. He knew she would not say or do anything and just obey but he couldn't let it. Why was Kelvin telling her to stand when there was a free chair or did he call her here just to make her...
'Shit!' He cursed inwardly as he couldn't understand why Kelvin asked her to stand.
"I don't accept late workers." Kelvin said plainly and looked at Selena. "You came late and made us wait..., that's your punishment."
'Punishment? Did he just say punishment for coming late. Has he gone insane?' She said in her head.
"Hey, you didn't tell me they was a board meeting till now and I came here as fast as I could immediately I was told and yet you said I'm late. Are you sick or something? You made me late and now you're punishing me for it." Selena wanted to pour out her anger but she kept it in.
She couldn't afford to disrespect him at least not here with all this eyes. "Just calm down Selena and endure everything.' She tried calming herself
"Come here." She heard Kelvin voice again and she walked to him. "Stand by my side." he added
"Stand by my side". It echoed in her mind. Why did this word make her feel her heart is racing? What other meaning was she reading to it and why did it sound like he was telling her to be by his side not in the board meeting but somewhere else.
"Get your head straight, Selena." She scolded herself and stood at Kelvin's right side.
"Now we can begin the meeting." Kelvin said. He knew that the board members were waiting for him to explain and introduce who Selena was, but he wasn't going to say a word. This was his company and he had eighty five percent shares so no one could order him on what to do and not.
Jorge sighed with relief. He didn't expect everyone to be silent but seeing them all silent he could only smile. "So you all could be silent like this?" He scoffed.
"Well, Mr Miguel you can go ahead now." Jorge said. He too wasn't going to say a word of introduction about who Selena was and since Kelvin didn't say anything, he was going to keep his mouth shut.
Miguel looked at Kelvin's eyes, seeing the cold gaze, he avoided it. He couldn't deny that Kelvin's attitude scared him and sometimes he wondered what kind of man Kelvin was.