Mr Billionaires Secret Baby

Chapter 48
Pencil skirt. Check.
Enough make up so I didn’t look dead. Check.
All the preparations for the company growth meeting done. Check.
After avoiding returning back to reality, I had no choice but to catch the earliest
flight back to attend this meeting held at the company. I had managed to hide
away in my quaint apartment in Canada for almost a month before I received this
email a week ago from Lucy informing me about this meeting. It was not one to
be missed and neither could I attend it remotely.
This meeting was important. It determined the growth of the business and also
the standing of the bet which I was still determined to emerge victorious.
It was not a meeting for investors and I had not been expecting any of the
investors to be there but that was changed at the last minutes as I got in to my
office to gather my things for the meeting. Lucy entered my office after knocking
once on the slightly ajar door.
“I'm just dropping by to inform you of a slight change in plans.” She mentioned
hesitantly testing the waters before she spoke.
I looked up from the papers that I had been organising. “The meeting better not
be cancelled.” I said with a narrowed glare but she shrugged it off.
“No, that is still on but Mr Crawford will be sitting in on the me at her blankly.
I blinked a few times looking
Why? Why was he attending the meeting when he had no business being here.
This meeting was for the company team and myself and no external persons.
I waited for Lucy to correct herself but she didn't. instead she just looked at me
for some sort of
response.
“What? Why?" I blurted out, my disapproval to this change of plan audible
enough for her to frown and not understand why I was so opposed to it.
“B- Because he is the companies biggest and most vital investor. Apparently we
do not have much say in the matter unless we wish to cause detriment to
ourselves.” She warned me with tightly pressed I*ps.
“I know but how on earth did he even get to know about his meeting?!” I
demanded to know but she scowled.
“I haven't the slightest of clue but I don’t see what the big deal is if he is a part of
the meeting. He probably won't say a word and will sit as a bystander and
nothing more. She said rationally but she did not know Dante like I did.
I knew that he was not to be trusted and in the past month that I had been away,
I had sealed my heart and mind from him knowing that he was no good and I
could not trust a word he said. It was a pity that he was such a vital investor or
else he'd be out of my life in ever possible aspect.
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“It just took me by surprise that he would be attending. Nothing more.” I said with
a tight smile looking down at the folder.
“Guess he has free time now that his engagement has been broken off.” I did a
double take as she said not, my ears rejecting what I had just heard.
What are you talking about, Lucy?" I questioned her and she looked at me like I
had been living
beneath a rock.
“How do you not know about this?!" She asked in baffled surprised before closing
the door behind her. “No one truly knows what happened between him and his
fiance but news broke out shortly after their engagement that they have split.
There has been no further explanation and, quite frankly, no one is brave enough
to ask Mr Crawford about the real reason it had come to an end.” She
straightened her posture then relaxed her expression like she hasn't just dropped
the hottest piece of gossip.
“I guess I had better things to worry about.” I said pursing my I*ps. “Either way,
his personal life is none of any of our concern.” I said but more as a reminder to
myself than to Lucy.
Dante had fooled me once before about Pheobe’s standing in his life and I was
done with him, Pheobe or not. I'd given him too many chances and he messed
up each time.
“Of course. She agreed but very half heartedly.
I inhaled deeply before checking my watch and saw that it was nearly time for the
meeting. I gathered the folder and left my office trying not to think about Dante
sitting amongst us during the meeting.
I didn’t want him there for many reasons but the main one being that I wanted to
know before him what the companies progress had been. If it was unfavourable
for me then I could buy myself more time and fix it until I reigned in enough
growth that Dante would lose the bet but if it worked to my benefit then I wanted
to have a grand “in your face’ moment. His presence denied me of that.
When I arrived at the boardroom, I noticed that every one had already been
seated and, by the look of it, had been awaiting my attendance. I frowned
thinking that there was no way that I could have been late and checked my watch
again only to discover that my watch had died on me.
Nevertheless, I held my chin high and my shoulders squared as I took the
remaining seat at the end of the large table trying not to pay attention to the
unmissable man to my left.
The meeting had commenced and was conducted by Jenna, our head of
analysis, who steered us through the figures and highs and lows before her
counterpart had taken over to go on.
1 waited with bated breaths for the verdict to be delivered about whether or not
the company had reached the percentage of growth that I was expecting.
“Now since the changes that occured to the company, we have managed to
boost progress by an impressive 10 percent although-"
“That can’t be correct.” I blurted out without thinking.
10 percent was too little and I knew that that figure was wrong. The team had
missed some thing
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but that was not a point to being up now considering that I did not want to
embarass my team in
front of Dante.
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little more carefully trying not to
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Jenna frowned but nodded anyways withholding her comments as did Josh, her
counter part. Both of them shared a glance before sharing a small nod of
agreement.
“We will give the figures a look over once again in case there is a chance that we
missed some thing. Josh said politely but the air in the room had tensed after
such an unexpected interruption.
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The meeting was concluded shortly
after and I made haste to leave not
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1 rushed in to my office and shut the door informing Lucy that I was not accepting
any one in my office as I wished to bit be disturbed. She nodded and didn’t seem
to care much as she type on her computer.
But, surely enough, less than ten minutes later my office door was pushed open
with out so much. of a knock before Dante stormed in like he owned the damn
building.
“Mr Crawford, you can't go in... Her words trailed off when she realised she was
a little too late to stop him but I didn’t think that she had the power to because he
was determined.
Determined, pissed off, yet unreadable.
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