" Can I ask the reason for your early presence, uncles ? She beamed and ask.
All of them scratched their head and looked at each other. Finally, the exact man who got all his properties got sold yesterday spoke " Return our money all at once, You crazy woman."
" What do you mean, what kind of money ?" She spoke in an innocent way as if she didn't know anything.
" Don't act like you're all that just because we gave you this chair." He pointed towards the CEO's chair.
All the other directors were giving her side glances as if they are the superior here and she is just a low level human here.
" Oh !!! Poor him, he's being used by these people to say whatever they want and this guy doesn't even know. His blunt and dumb personality must've made him an easy target by these human shaped snakes. Ahh!!! I can't help but feel bad for him." She swing her head from side to side gently.
They took turning her head side to side as refusing them and they got more furious but kept their superiority act on their faces as not to appear weak in front of this niece of theirs.
They were caught off guard yesterday but they won't make the same mistake again.
One of them decided to use coax technique and gently asked " my dear niece, you know how hard it is for your uncles to bear all the burden of the company, right ? When you were gone to get training in his company,we had to work day and night to keep the company going. We were working so much your third uncle suffered back pain for years. So, how can you be heartless enough to ignore our hard work and make us suffer like that ?" He asked while shedding crocodile tears thinking, so what if she decided to change a bit, she is still a young girl who barely knows the world and secretly smiled and thought he had already won.
All the other directors inwardly praised him for coming with such an amazing tactic.
She fell deep in thoughts and thought inside" Ugh !!! How boring, I have seen this very technique hundreds of times or maybe thousands of times when I was working under him. Did they really thought I would fall for this stupid means of manipulation ?
Guess they are not smart as I thought they were." She took a long sigh as she was thinking.
This was the sigh of disappointment for her but they thought but they thought their tactic was working on her. So, they continued with their ( how can you torment us like this) act.
" Don't you feel bad for bullying us in our old age like this ? Aren't we your family ? Shouldn't you be considerate toward us ? " All of them made expressions as if they were all in pain.
" Of course we are family, the type that sells their niece for your personal profit and what do you mean when you say you all are old ? My Mum as the oldest daughter of my grandparents was just in her thirties when she died." She thought.
She was getting tired of the show that was being held in front of her which she was forced to watch. She wanted these shameless liars to just disappear but she couldn't do that as she might need them in the future.
She took another long sigh and rubbed her forehead with her fingers and went to the chair to sit on and they followed her and sat in front of her on the chairs in a parallel line enjoying their sense of victory inside them yet pretending to be sad on the outside.
She was wrecking her head out on how to get rid of these annoying bugs in front of her then suddenly all their noises stopped and she noticed they were sitting still on their chairs emotionlessly.
" Thank goodness you saved me." She said with reliefness in her voice.
" Your welcome " the soft voice spoke in her head.
( Calliope used her power on them. )