Chapter 16: A very warm feeling

We need to keep her father in the dark for a while still. "Remember to change your office locks…" "Hold on. Come in." I hear a knock on his door soon someone enters. "Mr. Stutton here are the files you requested from the marketing department." "

Okay put them on that table I will look at them when I finish this call." "Okay sir." Getting back to our call. "Why do you want me to change the locks?" "Who was that?" I ask not answering his question. "That's one of my secretaries. What's wrong Mrs. Statton are you jealous?" He asks ready to laugh.

"Was that Ria just now?" I asked with worry. "Yes that's her. How do you know her?" He asks sensing my worry. That's not good. She is Jane's cousin, we normally go shopping together; Jane, myself and her. How long has she been working for you?" "About…? …I think it's more than six months now. Why?"

"That will be around two or three months after you asked Jane to marry you. Like what he did to dad, Jack has inserted his people in your business to destroy you from the inside. You need to do a background check of everyone starting with everyone in key positions. Call someone to change your locks now and don't give her anything that is important any more. Don't let her see that you are on to her."

Mark's POV

I can hear the distress in her voice and see the worry on her face when she told me about Ria and how Jack managed to insert his people in to my company. I feel sweetness creep up in to my heart. At last I have someone special who is worried about me. This is a very warm feeling I must say.

Now I understand dad's worry after telling us about Jack's mode of operation. Since that day I have a number of people that I suspect to be under Jack's payroll and Ria is one of them and today I got the connection.

So this family is really working hard to destroy my family, fat chance unfortunately for them we are on to them and they will be destroyed very soon. "Lilly! Hey calm down, don't worry I have been suspecting her but was not sure about it. Don't worry I will watch her, so relax wifey I am on it." I see her take a deep breath.

"So what are you going to do?" She asked, still concerned. "We are going to follow dad's arrangement and do it discretely and quickly. I want this mess to be settled before the babies are born." "That means it will be about seven months or even less if that's your plan."

"Yes. It is going to be a bit difficult but we need to be fast about it. Last night after work I had Jay do a sweep for bugs in my office and he did not find any. We then installed new surveillance equipment that are hidden as well as the once that can capture images in the dark. Now we need to find out how they obtain information besides Tim and Celia. Also I need your help to put bugs on Celia and Ria, are you up for it wifey?" I asked and with a giggle she says

"Yes hubby I'm up for it. I actually saw beautiful ankle bracelets at the mall. So I will go and buy them after breakfast you can tell Jay to come and fetch them later today." "Wow! I would never have thought of doing that; that is quite impressive." I said admiring how she thinks. "All right, let me not disturb your work, any way the kids are hungry now. Bye." "Bye wifey." I responded and blew her a kiss.

After talking to Lilly I realise that it would have been difficult to get information without her plan. I quickly made a call to Lill's dad and discuss the collaboration. He tells me that everything is ready from his end and I need to go to Pretoria to meet with one of his friends who is willing to help.

Underestimating Jack was a bad move on my part. I quickly call Tim to be ready to drive me out. This time I take Ria with me because I need to have a secretary with me during the negotiations. I give my two other secretaries work that is impossible for them to get out of quickly and thus Ria is the only 'available' secretary to accompany me to me meeting at the moment.

Ria and I reach the underground parking lot where we find Tim waiting for us. He opens the car door for us and we get in the back seat. As we drive out I start to brief Ria on what to expect and what she has to do and what she has to look out for during the meeting as this is the first time that she is accompanying me on a business meeting. I stress to her the importance of this collaboration for our company.

While busy talking to Ria, my cell phone rings and it is Lilly on the line. I take the call. "Hello wifey, is everything alright?" as I say this I see Tim trying to be calm but his body is a bit stiff and when I look over at Ria, she has a face full of disbelief. I smirk.

"What time will you be back after work? Nanny May is teaching me a new recipe and I want you to taste it for dinner." "I am so sorry dear, I wont be home for dinner, I am on my way to a meeting in Pretoria so you go ahead and have dinner without me but please save some of that dish for me…"

We spoke for a while on the phone while observing the two people in the car with me. I end the call by telling Lilly to sleep early and not to tire herself out. After the call, I rest my head on the head rest preparing myself to rest a while as we drive.