A powerful backer

Maria and Laila were still on a videocall with the employees back at the mansion. Two people had already told them what they had been able to find out and now they were about to hear from the third person in line. The third one to speak was none other than Giselle. She had been in touch with her friend who worked at the Smith residence and she was able to provide Giselle with some more useful information. It appeared that her previous advice and following actions had caused Giselle's friend to become a trusted person in Rina's eyes. Being the highest-ranking staff member at the Smith residence, she was a useful ally to have. Even if she didn't know she was aiding them.

The reason why she was able to gain her trust in such a short time, was because she used a bit of information provided by Giselle, to convince Rina that she was really on her and Olivia's side. By telling a half-truth that was potentially useful to them, she was able to make Rina trust her and cause herself to be well thought of by Olivia herself.

"She told Rina that she knew a dim-witted person on the inside, which would be me, who would tell her whatever she wanted to know. She explained that when she called to find out what Miss Laila was doing, that I told her that you had gone to visit your family for a week. She then said that she felt that this might be useful information for Miss Olivia as Miss Laila would be away from the home. Meaning that the husband would be all alone at the house." Laila found it endearing to see that after everything, Giselle was still referring to Olivia as 'Miss Olivia'.

With the group hanging on her every word, Giselle continued telling the people who had gathered for this call, what her friend had done to gain both Rina and Olivia's trust as well as what she had found out. "Rina was very pleased with this information and surprisingly didn't want to take credit for the information herself. Rina simply dragged her with her to where Miss Olivia's was and there revealed that some good new had been brought to her attention. She asked my friend to repeat what she had told her and she did. This caused Miss Olivia to become very pleased and turned everyone's focus away from the lunch and whatever you might be planning towards trying to maximize this opportunity of you being away from home."

"This information also caused Rina to spill more details of Miss Olivia's plans to my friend. Telling her that Miss Olivia had a very powerful backer. Someone she had been seeing on the side, while trying to get Mr. Stephens. She explained that this was an enemy of Noah from the business world. Someone he had turned against him by being too good of a competitor. Apparently Mr. Stephens had acquired a lot of his territory since you moved here and he was looking for a way to get back at him or gain some of it back. So, Miss Olivia is planning on using him to ruin Mr. Stephen's his business if she should fail at getting him for herself."

Seeing the looks of horror and fear on Laila's face she quickly shook her hands and added, "Of course she hasn't told him of this as she doesn't want to put any idea's in his head in case it will put Mr. Stephens in any danger. For now she is still convinces she can make Mr. Stephens her own. So, she won't harm him. She is only stringing the man along by promising him to steal some useful information for him that would profit his business if she should become the new Mrs. Stephens, that is until she feels the need to use him. With him thinking that he is gaining a pretty girlfriend and a chance to make his business grow, while hurting his enemy, made it a deal he couldn't resist."

Though Laila wasn't happy with the news nor with the idea of Olivia hunting on Noah now that he was alone and 'defenceless', it was certainly very useful information and it made her glad she hadn't said anything yet. If she had shown her true feelings and had told her that she was onto her plan of trying to steal away Noah, who knows what damage she could have caused to both her marriage and Noah's company. Now she knew how she planned to attack him and she knew what her backup plan was. With these two things by her side, she was ready to think of a counterplan with Maria. But first, she needed to warn Noah to stay away from Olivia and to not eat or drink anything given or potentially touched by her. She couldn't risk Olivia putting her hands on her man!