"In the said year, I will be by your side, Ms. Hamilton." Brent said with a reassuring smile.
"What?!" Joseph looked at Brent with cold menacing eyes. "And why would you be by Yvy's side?"
"Since Ms. Hamilton is still relatively young to handle such a massive company, I have been named by the late Mr. Hamilton as her legal counsel and guardian." Brent stood his ground with Joseph's intense aura. "I am going to work on Ms. Hamilton's best interest."
"And do you think I will swindle Yvy from her shares of the company?!" Joseph snapped. He pulled Brent's collar and looked like he was picking a fight.
"I never said anything like that." Brent maintained his cool.
"Stop it, Joseph." Mr. Smith stood up to break the two of them. "If that is what your late father wills, then let it be. We all know that you care for Yvette like a sister. You do not need to prove anything."
"I am just here as the late Mr. Hamilton's request, Mr. Joseph." Brent explained. "I do not have to explain to you in detail what your late father has planned and why he has me looking over Ms. Hamilton. Whatever you are thinking right now, that is what you yourself is imagining the situation. Then I will dare ask this, do you really care for Ms. Yvette just as sister, or is there something more?"
Brent's words ticked Joseph off and threw a punch and hit him in the face. Blood trickles out from Brent's lips.
"M-Mr. Dawson?!" I was startled. This is the first time I saw Joseph be aggresive to anyone. He was clearly agitated.
"Heh, remember you started this." Brent's eyes was filled with agitation. He also threw a punch towards Joseph.
The two was now brawling inside the meeting room. The Mr. Smith and Mr. Jenkins wete trying to stop the two.
"Hey…" Ms. Alice scolded. "Stop this you two! You are not highschool boys anymore that has to talk with their fists!"
But the two men was still throwing punches at each other. Some hit while some miss.
"Quick! Call the security!" Dianne screamed.
I was in shock that I was petrified in place. When I came to my senses, I also thought of stopping the two from fighting.
"Stop this!" I screamed. "You shouldn't fight like this in here."
I was about to join the fray when I felt a bout of vertigo. Everything around me started to spin around. I felt my vision blur and my consciousness started to fade.
"Yvette!" I heard Joseph's voice call out to me in concern.
"Ms. Yvette!" Bren't voice also called out to me.
"Yvette?!" Ms. Alice's voice was the one most neat me, full of concern.
After that I have blacked out.
**
The reading of the last will and testament of the late Mr. Hamilton ended with such a commotion. Joseph Hamilton, the son of the late Mr. Hamilton and Brent Dawson who was the late CEO's lawyer ended up in a fist fight. The news to this was kept tightly as to not let ot leak out to the media who was always hungry for news.
But the news that the new owner of the Hamilton Hotels Inc. has already been opened to the media. The name of Yvette Hamilton started to circulate in the internet and news. Since the Hamilton Hotels Inc. is one of the richest company on the world of hotel industry, information about the new owner has spread out like wildfire.
The PR team of the company is doing there best to minimize any negative information and do there best to keep bad information under wraps as to let it not affect the stock market.
The current owner, Yvette Hamilton is now in the venue's room having blacked out after the commotion broke out in the reading of thr last will.
"How is she doing , doctor?" Joseph had called in a doctor immediately when Yvette collapsed.
"The miss is running a high fever." The doctor replied. "She must have been to a stressful experience for her temperature to sky rocket. For now I have her on a drip to bring down the fever. Once she has stabilized, you can take her home to rest. I will prescribe her some medication to treat her fever."
The doctor wrote his prescription in a piece of paper and handed it over. Joseph and Brent was about the take the prescription at the same time. They stared at each other and tension started to escalte kn the room once more.
"I would like to remind you that as of today, I am Ms. Yvette's legal guardian." Brent took the prescription from the doctor's outstretched hand.
"And let me also remind you that I am still Yvette's adopted brother." Joseph snatched the prescription from Brent's hand. "We still live under the same roof, and it is just right for me to be the one to take care of her."
"Ahh…" The doctor became flustered seeing his prescription being taken forcibly by the two men. "Please be gentle or the paper will tear."
"Your late father has already dealt with her lodgings as well." Brent informed. "He had bought an estate just outside the city and is a gift to her for her twenty first birthday. She can move there whenever she wishes."
Joseph was surprised to hear that his father had already planned such a thing. He never realized that his father would separate Yvette from him.
"The house was meant to be for the two of you if ever Yvette had accepted the terms of the marriage…" Brent said. "But since she did not accept it, she will be the sole owner of the estate."
Joseph started to feel regret. It was a feeling he did not know the cause.
"Well that will have to wait until Yvette wakes up." Joseph stood his ground and held the ores prescription in his hand tightly.
"Knock it off, you two!" Ms. Alice who was with them in the room all along snatched the prescription from Joseph's hand. "I will be the one buying this if you two do not get your sh*t together!" She scolded.
"Uumm…" The docotor interjected. "Please minimize the stress of the patient. It would not be good for her recovery if her environment is like this."
"You hear that?!" Ms. Alice scolded. "Since the two of you are odds with each other then I will be the one calling the shots for Yvette until she wakes up."
The two men seemed embarrassed after being scolded. Brent scratched his head whole Joseph averted his eyes and looked away.
"Since Yvette is still unconscious, let us move her back home where she is comfortable once her fever breaks." Ms. Alice said. Joseph's face beamed hearing this. "When she has recovered, that will be the time that we ask her what she wants. I know that this day had been stressful not only to her but to all of us. It would be best for us to go home and rest."
"Yes, you are right, Ms. Alice." Brent said. "I would also like to apologize showing that kind of behavoir a while ago. I did not mean to lose my temper."
Ms. Alice looked at Joseph, also waiting to hear an apology. Joseph was a bit reluctant but Ms. Alice had stared daggers at him snd he eventually caved in.
"I am also sorry for my behavior." Joseph said. "I-I am just overprotective when it is about Yvy."
"Now shake hands you too." Ms. Alice said. "The two of you will he working together and will be around Yvette mostly. I do not want my little munchkin to be stressed out because of the two of you."
The two men were reluctant at first but then shook hands eventually. Their grip were a little bit tight for a normal handshake, but the onlookers were fooled that they have made up. A rivalry started at that very moment between this two men.
The other board members had gone home a while ago and Ms. Alice and Brent were also going their way after everything started to settle down.
"I will be visiting Ms. Yvette tomorrow." Brent informed Joseph. "For now, please take good care of her."
"There is no need to tell me that." Joseph replied a little harshly. "I always have taken care of my sister."
"Well that will change once she wakes up." Brent replied with the equal harshness.
"Now you two…" Ms. Alice intervened. "I will be off now as well. Take care of Yvs for me, okay." She asked Joseph.
"Of course, aunty." Joseph replied calmly. "Take care on your way."
When all the visitors had gone, Joseph went in the venue. Gregory, his personal assistant was still on standby.
"Please have the driver be on standby and ready." Joseph said. "Once Yvy's fever breaks, I would like to take her home at once where she would be more comfortable."
"Yes, sir." Gregory replied promptly. "Is there anything else you want to add?" He asked.
"Also call the house. Tell them to make sure that Yvy's room is fresh and clean. She needs to have a comfortable rest so that she could regain her health." Joseph replied. "And you can also go home after. We all had a long day and need rest."
"Will do, sir." Gregory replied. "Thanks sir."
Joseph walked towards the room where Yvette was currently sleeping. His mind was already in a turmoil due to his father's last will and testament and now his feelings were all in disarray in the pending moving out of Yvette.
Joseph came inside the room and see Yvette sleeping soundly. He saw the IV pinned on her wrist. He was quite pained seeing as some blood had dripped out of the IV hose. He held her wrist carefully and slowly lifted it near his cheek. He can feel the warmth radiating from her hand to his face.
"You won't really move out, will you Yvy?" Joseph murmured. "You won't leave me all alone, right? It is only the two of us now. It has always been the two of us."
Joseph can feel a slight pain in his heart just by thinking that Yvette would leave him. His emotions had now been stirred with today's happenings.
*BANG*
The doors to the room opened wide and Dianne came inside with a furious look.
"Joseph Hamilton!" Dianne called out loud.
Joseph sighed deeply and looked at his fiancée with an irritable look.