Amelia had gone through the company's whole security camera without break, but nobody suspicious was shown. She watched it countless times but still, it had proven nothing. It brought her to the conclusion that the person must be working for her in her company. But who?
Amelia's workers were well over 600 people, and she was not a woman with free time for herself most of the time. So, there was no way she could go over all of that amount of people. It could take her months and patience was not something she had.
Through her whole week, she had meetings upon meetings not having time for herself, as usual. Amelia was a workaholic herself, using her work to take things off her mind.
She was seated in her office on a Wednesday morning and she had zoned out on her work. She could not think of anything else but her parents and who exactly it was that was holding them.
What if they were not actually holding them, but just trying to scare her with some information. From the note she got, she could feel the person's deep hatred for her parents, so there is a high chance that they might already be dead.
A knock came to her door and Brittney stepped in. Amelia looked up at her "What is it?" she asked in a cold and dry voice, but it did not faze Brittney. "Today is that day of the month Miss Amelia" she said and Amelia's eyes showed confusion "What?"
"The day of the month where you and Mr. Milo Ivanov choose a game to play in which you make a deal on it. You have that twice every month and today is the day for the second one" She said telling Amelia of the activities in her own life.
Amelia still was confused, then she slowly came to realization "Wait. Today is Wednesday? The last Wednesday of the month?" She checked her phone and saw that it really was the last Wednesday of that month. Her head went straight to her table "I forgot to play sick this time" she said and groaned angrily, but Brittney reminded her "Even if you had done that, the activity would still have been moved to the moment when you have 'regained your health'" she said in air quotes.
Amelia looked up again glaring at Brittney, but Brittney just looked down on her iPad "Mr. Ivanov's secretary has already sent us the location for your activity. Are you ready to go, Miss Amelia?" She looked up from the iPad.
Amelia sighed and asked the same question she always asked whenever she felt like she did something stupid unknowingly "Remind me again, what was this whole thing about?" She asked and Brittney sighed as well "We might have to go back to two years ago, and that's a long walk, but I'll try to make it short"
"Mr. Milo Ivanov came up with this plan in order to spend more time with you-- which you were unaware of, by the way-- and you accepted the deal, because he mocked you for trying to chicken out. Pretty childish if you ask me, but who am I to judge?" Brittney smiled concluding her story telling.
Amelia tilted her head "Did we..." "Yes Miss Amelia, you did. You signed a contract on this, so you have to keep going with it" Brittney answered her question.
And because of Amelia's wrong decisions, she found herself heading to Milo Ivanov.
The fact that he was just doing all this to spend more time with her did not stick to her. Amelia was not a woman of love, so she never knew signs of it at all, even when it was staring straight at her.
Milo Ivanov was a big sign, but she was still blind to it. Or... She just did not want to acknowledge it.