At least not after the final warning she gave him on the phone after Ashley's birthday party which had ended in a rather messy way.
His train of thoughts was suddenly interrupted by the sound of his phone ringing, Bill was quick to fetch it from the coffee table and hand it to him. After confirming the caller was Doctor Bailey, he answered the call and pressed the device to his ear. "Hello Doctor Bailey,"
"Oh, Mr. Bryce, I'm so glad you picked up
"Is everything alright?"
"Yes, yes all is well. I was just calling to remind both you and Ms. Leonica to prepare for the matching procedures of the IVF. Hope I didn't catch you at bad time?"
At a bad time? With everything happening? What the hell was his answer meant to be.
"No, Doctor Bailey, of course not." Tuming Point.
"With this, I think it's safe to say the meeting has come to a conclusion? Standing at the head of the meeting table, Leonica looked at each of the shareholder's face which now held complete doubts towards Rodrigo's words after she had rallied not only evidence of wrong accusation concerning her personal life and private image, but also evidence of how much the company had risen in the last two months since she had taken over
The scales were weighed, supposed bad against all the good she had done since taking seat, and as wise business individuals, they chose the right the scale. The side of the scale that ensured the Romero Empire continued to raise more than it already was With nods of agreements from each and every shareholders present, the meeting of presidency debate was brought to an end, Flashing them one last smile of professionalism, Leonica exited the conference room. As she walked out, Rodrigo nearly got slammed in the face by the opening doors. He staggered back just in time for the tips to grace his nose.
Leonica's eyes narrowed at him as soon as she saw him and she scoffed when realizing that the stitch had been ease dropping, probably praying that the tables would be turned in his direction and she would lose her seat as president of Romero Empire. Sadly it hadn't gone that way.
"I don't pay my employees to hang around and ease drop on executive level meetings, Rodrigo. So, would you mind telling me why you are here, dropping. Oh, and why you are at it, be a dear and explain to me why you turned in those photos to board members of my company" Leonica questioned. With each word she said, she took a step towards Rodrigo, causing him to take a step of his own back as he scrambled his brain for an escape route, which he had failed to come up with earlier.
Why should he have bothered coming up with a backup plan when his plan was fail proat. Everything had been going perfectly, Leonica's reputation was falling and falling fast and he took that opportunity to execute his ultimate plan, knowing that if it worked, he'd no longer have to work as a mere employee and refer to her as the boss.
But that was one thing he failed to consider. The word "IF". His mentality at the start of his 'master plan as he called it was that it was going to go throw It was either he wen it all nothing, that's why he put his all in it and targeted the perfect moment
So who would have told him that he would need a "back up plans? Rodrigo would have laughed af at had not been him in this situation.
"Are you going to tell me the reason or would you rather I did?" Leonica asked after he had remained silent for quite a while, mind not being able to come up with an escape route.
It was all or nothing and all or nothing, had falled him.
"You hoped to bring me down, wasn't that why?" She continued, shaking her head, not because her uncle's plan was flawed in every way, but rather because he couldn't even defend himself after being found out and now cowered like a complete coward. Left to look speechless and back boneless. That was probably the one that pashed Leonica over the edge.
Getting into the business world, she had always been aware of the opponents she could face. The greedy ones, the backstabbing ones, the ones who played saint yet were more than ready to throw you under the bus the moment situation called for it. She knew all sorts of them, seen her fair share and had been left with trauma of equal level, during the reign of her father as president. Because of that, her goard had always and constantly been up, her mind expecting the worse type of opponents, yet here she was, faced with an uncle of hers who couldn't even pull off a simple plan and now cowered like a total coward because his plan had failed.
Angering, but now that she thought of it, it was equally laughable.
"Leonica..." Rodrigo managed to speak after a while, but the rest of his words trailed off as his niece held up her hand, silencing him.
"I don't even want to hear it. Up till this point I have tolerated your shit, Rodrigo because you are my uncle, my father's brother. But it's clear to me now that, that by doing so I was gradually digging my own grave. It was a huge mistake, one I would not repeat a second time. Clear your desk and visit HR for your severance package. You're fired."
If you replace any errors (non-standard content, ads redirect, broken links, etc..), Please let us know so we can fix it as soon as possible.
Report