The Billionaire's secret Love by Manogyna Marthi (readnow .txt) 📕

Chapter 17

Angelica

The next day morning I get up at 6 and finish my chores early. I shower and blows dry my chest nut hair. Applying a little bit of make-up I pull out my favourite pink top and black pants keeping my hair lose falling in curls to my waist.

Within 20 minutes I was in front of a stylish looking sky scraper which had letters written in bold 'SUNRISE INDUSTRIES'. The inside of the building was beautiful and rich. A receptionist sat in the corner of the opulent huge hall. I greeted her and told about my appointment with the CEO Mr Augustus Martin. She asked me to press 17th floor and guided me to the other side of the vast hall where there were lifts lined one beside the other.

The soothing music playing in the lift calmed my pensive nerves to no extent. I look at the blaring neon lights with so many questions tampering my disrupt mind. How does Augustus know about my family's financial status? Was he telling me the truth? If so why does he want to help me? Is he trying to corner me into some tricky deal? Absorbed by my turbulent thoughts I enter inside a splendid foyer. Getting a few steps further of the propertied studio my eyes meet with costly furnishings of a glass table in the middle and a big L shaped leather sofa made of African black wood. To the other side was a huge book case basically comprised of various business magazines and autobiographies of imminent personalities. Besides it was a fridge which was filled with bottles of expensive wine and soft drinks accompanied with light snacks.

A woman seated at the reception brought me out of my musing thoughts. "How may I help you madam?" Within a few minutes I was called inside a room which had a huge door on the top of with alphabets pasted CEO, Sunrise Industries. I knocked the door and immediately there was an authoritative 'come in' from the other side which screamed power.

His vision was directed to the laptop resting on the huge glass table which was covered with various files. As I greeted him, his grey optics lifted from the computer screen to capture mine. I noted Augustus Martin the CEO of 'Sunrise Industries' looked entirely different from the man I met at the party a few months ago or the man who took me to the fancy restaurant to celebrate my graduation. He was a man of limited words who outpoured power and command. Dressed in a grey suit with a crisp white shirt underneath and a matching tie, he was far high from a super model working in a fashion magazine. There are no doubts girls swooned for his looks and freely offered them to him.

"So Miss Evans you are already here." He acknowledges me. I come out of my frenzy state to get hypnotised ones again under his magical greys and give a weak nod. He smirks probably understanding my inner struggle and continues with his powerful tenor. "Miss Evans before you sign the deal I am obligated to brief you about certain things, you are supposed to know." He tells me in his calm but professional voice. I couldn't continue any long in my thoughtful state as I cascade my questions on him one after the other in an alarm.

"Mr Martin how do you know about my family's financial condition and why are you trying to help me in this? Is this any of your plots in which you are trying to fix me up? If so let me assure you Mr Martin, I am not a naive girl who will fall for an insensitive business man's tricks. I am the daughter of a mafia don, a powerful leader of the underworld kingdom. So keep your over smart brain in check." I warn him in my thunderous voice.

He looks stoic into my orbs for a few seconds and then slowly his rims tilt upwards which mend to a full blown laughter. Subsequently his tittering dies and gets back to the usual poker face. "Miss Evans as I told you earlier, I will appraise you of certain things before you wilfully sign the deal with this company. Your dad had hacked the accounts of 'Sunrise Industries' robbed 20 million dollars from our system and wanted to land the Martins as mendicants on the street. As an astute businessman, I wouldn't let such things happen to my firm even in his dream. I was obligated to treat your dad back with what he wanted to give me. The resultant being you and your father are reduced to little more than a few pennies from your life time savings."

My countenance emanates fire to bring out the flaring volcano inside me at his falsified statements. Seeing nothing but red I counter the manipulative shark with my tactful words. "Mr Martin, my dad is a billionaire and has no necessity to rob your money." Augustus gives me a sly smirk. He pulls back his leather chair relaxing himself and crosses his legs resting his ankle on the knee of the other. "Miss Evans I understand you have got some very strong possessive instincts towards your dad but your angry piques will not change the truth." He answers me in his overly relaxed anatomy. "I am not a cold blooded businessman like you think me to be. I do business with equals. Targeting innocent tots like you for meeting my business goals is least under my principles. My human instincts insist that you shouldn't be winnowing the fruits of the dangerous seeds your father had planted. So I wish to offer you a deal. Work for me for the next five years, clear the dues of your dad and I set you free after that else..." He gives me time for a few seconds to digest and speaks his next words prudent. "Your father will be behind the bars before he sees the sunrise of tomorrow under the clauses of hacking accounts of Sunrise Industries and robbing money from the firm."

Dear Readers

The story before was the past of Angelica's life.

PRESENT

I grind my teeth at his falsified accusations. My world seems to be crashing that I am in front of this asshole dealing terms. I hate to see his face. I loathe his guts of challenging me. He is a devil under the pretext of an archangel. A teasing smile on his perfectly carved features "so are you ready to sign the deal Angel?"