Call from Aiden

As soon as Maya reached her home, she went to find her father in his study room.

They discussed about what had happened in today's emergency meeting.

Even David Parker; Maya's father was shocked by how bold these people were.

"Although you are having a good foundation in the company, it is not enough. As you saw in the incident with emergency meeting, your power can still be threatened easily. So, you still can't make very bold decisions, one of the reason being that your Supreme Starlight was set up only since about four years ago. Therefore I advice you not to remove any directors from your company, we can still make use of them. I think that would be better if we use them against Lucas himself. As for you, if you really want to remove them from your main headquarters, you can transfer them." Mr. Parker suggested.

"Yes I have already made the arrangements for that. Tomorrow early morning, I have asked Ashely to post the notice on the unofficial forum as well as the bulletin board. I have issued a transfer for four of the members from the committee."

"What about Mr. Collins? Is he also between the four of the transferred members?" Mr. Parker asked. He could guess what Maya's answer was going to be but he still wanted to confirm.

"No, of course not. Mr. Collins is the fourth largest shareholder after me, Lucas and Ashley. He also holds an important position in the company." Maya continued, "According to Ashely, Mr. Collins is completely supportive of Lucas. And that is the reason why he is trying to get others on his side; to help Lucas. But I think he has some agenda, there has to be a reason he his making so much of fuss. The only people that will be left in the company after this transfer, would be those who are supporting me. So maybe Mr. Collins will finally take out his cards."

"Do you know the actual reason why is Mr. Collins helping Lucas?" David asked Maya. It was just too suspicious for him.

How could Mr. Collins leave a person like Maya who was with a promising future, for a man like Lucas who would most probably lead the company to failure.

Although he was trying not to be boastful, Mr. Parker could only say that Lucas's family background was also not as impressive as Maya... then why?

As if understanding her father's thoughts, Maya said, "Even I am wondering, why is an old man like Mr. Collins, who should now only make ways to earn more money, be a complete money minded person, supporting Lucas so blindly? So that's why I have asked Ashely to do some research, she said that she will get everything ready by tomorrow morning."

"Are you sure that you do not want me to ask Ren to help you? He could help you in much faster way."

"No need father. I want to see how capable my resources can be. Anyways thank you for your advice! I will leave now. Good night father, don't wake up much now, even you should head to sleep, it's already very late." Maya responded quickly.

She wanted to leave the room because she had heard her mother, Samartha's voice. She wanted to avoid running into her at all costs.

Although Maya did not let it show on her face, Mr. Parker could already guess the reason for her hastiness to leave the room. He felt sad for his daughter, after all which daughter would try to run away from her own mother?!

As Maya got out of the study room, she noticed that her mother was not coming towards the study, but going upstairs. She was not alone, she had a guest with her.

Both of them were talking about attending some Charity auction party together, which was going to be held next week.

At first, it seemed as if both of them were genuinely wanting to participate in Charity.... but as Maya continued to hear their talks, she clearly understood that it was not about Charity, but about who could give more valuable object for auction.

Maya shook her head, were all these ladies of upper class like this? Being so competitive against each other, one had no genuine friendship here, just connections.

...

Maya woke up around 7:10 in the morning.

Nevertheless, it was not because of her alarm, but because of her phone constantly ringing. Recently, all of Maya's days were starting with receiving calls from people.

"Can't say I did not expect this reaction!" Maya said in a lazy voice, after all she had just woken up. "Ashely must have posted the notice on the forum. Let's see who is the first person to react..."

The first call was from Lucas's number, "Ummm.... I think I can ignore him."

Soon it was time to go to work, Sofia came rushing to Maya, "Sis!! I heard you took some big steps in your company?"

Maya was pleasantly surprised hearing this, since when did Sofia start to pay attention to financial news!? "How did you know about it? Has the article already been published?"

"No... I did not read it from there, I got to know about it from Mr. Liam!" Sofia said with excitement. It was the first time both of them had talked after that night.

"Mr. Moore? How did he know about it?" Maya asked; she still didn't know about the exact jobs of Liam and Aiden.

"Oh? Didn't brother Aiden tell you? Both of their families are in the business industries. I don't know much about it, but Liam had told me that his father was thinking to invest in the beauty products of the brand supported by Supreme Starlight. So he was keeping a close eye on every news from your company."

Suddenly Maya remembered that last night Aiden had told her that he was capable enough to help her anytime, it seemed as if he also was from a very good background.

*ring ring*

Maya's phone rang again. She thought that again, it might be Lucas or someone who got transferred but it was not either of them.

It was a call from Aiden.