TAKING RISKS

KATE

Nate and Tega were best of friends . So I knew him well

So well because he had a crush on me.

Tega walked towards me and placed his hands on my shoulders" I rushed over as soon as I heard you were back "

I instantly backed away and Tega appeared hurt.

"Ouch"

"I'm busy " I looked at Nathan"What are you waiting for? Take him away"

Nathan moved to take Tega away but he raised up his hand and stopped him and faced me with a smirk" I heard the company stock plummeted. After spending so long abroad, I expected more from you . Wake up, huh?"

One thing I despised about Tega the most was his honesty. He might be thinking he was giving a friendly advice to his bestfriend but I wasn't Nate.

I was Kate and his words hurt because he was downgrading me.

I clenched my fist tightly. I was going to show them all what I'm capable of. I promise.

"Aren't you leaving?" I asked with my anger getting the best of me .

"Oh, that's right. I heard Kate passed away. Such a shame. I'll be seeing you around though"

He walked out my office guided by Nathan.

When he had gone, I asked Nathan" So what's the plan?"

"Since we obviously can't change anything because Mr Ken would object, we do it behind the scene"

My eyes widened"By that you mean?"

"When the products are ready and packaged" he paused" we change them"

This was really a risk. Father was going to be really mad.

But I don't care. I can't let this company fall while I'm in charge.

I'm going to give it my all.

Meanwhile Mr An stealthy headed to ACE CORPORATION .

ACE CORPORATION and DELORE inc had been in a fierce competition for as long as you can think of.

With the stocks plummetting on DELORE, ACE was now leading the charts.

Mr An walked into the chairman's office.

He took a seat and bowed at a smiling Mr Evans who was proud at how he backstabbed his own company to put ACE at the top.

"I did as I promised" Mr An said " I made Ken change the products and that led to a fall in the company stock. Is this enough to gain your trust?"

Mr Evans laughed "You really are quite a character. Your daughter can marry my son if you want but I need someone on the inside of Delore so I'll be keeping you there "

Mr An bowed his head "Thank you sir "

"But may I ask ? Why are you eager to see that company fall? You are close to Ken and you currently work there"

Mr An gritted his teeth as he tightened his fist and said "I want to teach that son of his a lesson"

Later that night as the co-workers departed, they whispered amongst themselves as they saw Nathan and I working overnight.

"Isn't Mr Nate going home?"

"I know, he's really busy because the stock fell"

"It must be really hard on him"

I cracked my neck as Nathan's phone rang.

"Yes, Mom" he said he picked up the call" No, I might be running late. Don't wait up for me, okay?"

He ended the call and I looked at the time

"You can leave. I can take care of all this myself"

Nathan smiled"Mom told us to have fun"

I laughed"Have fun? At work?"

Nathan looked around" I'm going to get some coffee, do you want one?"

I nodded my head. While he went to get us coffee, I decided to close my eyes for a little while.

Just a little while. Until I drifted off.

***

NATHAN

When I came back with the coffee, Mr Nate had drifted off to sleep.

I laughed and placed the coffee on the table gently but it woke him up.

"I wasn't sleeping, seriously" he said and I laughed.

"I didn't ask "

"Oh, that's right. We continue"

We worked till sunrise discussing how we will swap the products without Mr Ken knowing and rebranding the products we were going to swap them with.

As the co-workers walked into the office I could here them whisper.

"Oh my, they been working since last night"

"Tell me about it "

"I adore Mr Nate"

"Mr Nathan looks hot by the sun too"

I stiffled a laughter and Mr Nate looked up at me and I was startled by his black eye.

"Do you think so ? You look hot by the sun?"

I hurriedly shook my head "No sir "

"Let's head to the meeting room"

We stood up and went to the meeting room .

"No changes would be made to what Mr Ken has done already. Proceed as you have done. That's all"

Everyone was shocked. They'd expected a huge plan to raise back the company stock but he'd told them to continue as they were doing.

"Is that all?" They whispered amongst themselves.

"I know right? And he worked all night just to tell us this ?"

I smiled. They had no idea what Mr Nate had in mind

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