Treachery

Lewis began to rage. "NO! THERE IS NO WAY! HOW!!"

Everyone else in the family looked at him with shock, was he cursing their good fortune?

Adrianna also reread the article multiple times.

Each time she read, her smile grew wider.

Star Ocean had accepted their contract!

The article went as follows,

"Star Ocean Group is pleased to announce the winners of the bid for our contract. We have awarded Happy Sun Transport half of the contract, worth One Hundred Million dollars. We have awarded the other half of the contract in full to Reliable Transport Group, Also worth One Hundred Million Dollars.

There will be a banquet in two days at our new headquarters, we hope to see all prominent faces of these two groups there."

Adrianna was over the moon! Her husbands idea had worked! Not only had it worked, The contract was ten times the original bid!

Adrianna was grinning like a Cheshire cat from ear to ear.

She looked around at the faces of all of those present, each one of them had a look like they had just eaten shit, Especially Lewis. He stormed out of her house and left.

The rest of the family were also mumbling as they left. No one could believe they had done it!

Lewis was on the phone as he got in his car.

The phone rang, and then an elderly woman answered "Lewis, I have seen enough bad luck for today, what is it?" it was his mother Sabine.

"Did you see? We won the contract for Star Ocean!" he said.

"Do not lie to me son!" she retorted.

"It is not a lie! They posted it on their social media, you can go see it yourself!"

The phone was silent for a bit before a gasp was heard. "This is wonderful news! We need to prepare for the banquet!"

Lewis was still not happy "Are you really going to make Adrianna the head of the company?"

The line was silent for a bit. Sabine did not like Adrianna, she had always been a daddies girl. Sabine ranked Adrianna very low in her heart. There was no way she could make her the CEO.

"Yes... That does pose a problem... " Sabine said. She had almost forgotten about her promise.

"Yes, she is not capable to run such a large company, she can barely keep that small company of hers going! You can not turn over Reliable Transport Group to her!" Lewis continued. He did not want to see his sister succeed. He would stop her if he could.

"What would you have me do then? I had made a promise!" Sabine asked.

Lewis grinned evilly "You only promised to give whoever won the contract the seat of CEO, but Reliable Transport Group won the contract, Not Adriannas Small Family Transport group. You do not have to give her the seat!"

Sabine always loved how devious her favorites sons mind was. "Oh you are a smart one! This way there will be no karmic blow back!" Sabine praised. "Ok, Instead of Adrianna, I will appoint you the new CEO."

Lewis faked suprise "Mother! You are too kind to this poor son! But I will graciously accept your humble offer!" He pandered.

Sabine giggled "Stop! You are too kind to this old woman. That is my favorite son!"

Lewis shared a few more kind words with his mother before hanging up the phone. His grin was wide. "I will never let you come near the seat of CEO, let alone sit in it! You will never see the inside of the room!" Lewis swore out loud while he drove back to the company headquarters.

Back in the White house, Adrianna was happily straightening her home. She was giddy with excitement.

Gerald's German sports car rumbled back up the drive way.

Adrianna heard this and came running out of the house.

Gerald had just stepped free of the car when she leapt into his arms. Gerald turned around just in time to catch her.

"Did you hear! We did it! Star Ocean took our bid!" she was saying excitedly.

"See! I told you! Do not doubt your husband!" Gerald smiled and acted as surprised as he could while he held her to him.

Adrianna smiled "I do not know why I let my family get in my head! There is no way you would cheat on me!" Adrianna having now won the contract, tied all the negative comments together and dismissed them.

"Why would you ever think I would cheat on you? I am a faithful husband!" Gerald said in shock.

Adrianna blushed "My sisters keep telling me you are out all day with other women, and not hunting for a job. They even said you lied about getting the job at Happy Sun Transport, and were at Star Ocean Group this morning....."

Gerald sweated and thought quickly, He could not reveal his status to anyone yet. There was still way too much danger.

"Silly wife! Did you not ask what my job is at Happy Sun Transport?" Gerald came up with an idea, and would make it true later.

Adrianna looked at him curiously. "So you were at Star Ocean Group this morning?"

"Of course I was! It is part of my job! I am the shipping company liaison! I was there this morning to work out some details of the contract!" Gerald lied. He apologized to Karma for this one and made sure it was done without evil intent.

Gerald noted to pay attention to Adrianna's sisters. He would not let them off easy for trying to sow such deceitful seeds in his tender wifes innocent head.

"Now we do not have to get divorced! This is wonderful news!" Adrianna shouted. It seemed all of her problems were becoming dust in the wind in one fell swoop. She was beaming.

"Maybe tonight, you can finally make an honest women of me?" She teased.

Gerald simple hugged her tightly "Dear wife, I am still not high enough to deserve you, the fact you have stuck with me this long is proof of your love, please stick with me a little longer. I promise you will not regret it!" he answered honestly.

Gerald did not want to bring children into this world till he knew they would be safe. And right now that was not guaranteed. He needed far more power.

Adrianna gave up on this thought again easily and simply embraced her husband.

Gerald grinned at her "Dear wife, you will see, things will start turning around for us!" He said.

Adrianna mocked him "You act like you are the Other Mr White! I doubt he is someone as shameless as you!"

Gerald chuckled at her "Maybe he is exactly someone shameless like me?" teasing her back.

"Oh stop! You could never be someone so powerful as the Mr White who owns Star Ocean! We could only hope to shine his shoes one day!" Adrianna said honestly.

Gerald held his tongue, he so desperately wanted to tell her that he was exactly that Mr White, and he would never have to shine anyone's shoes again! It was time other people started shining his shoes! But for now he simply said. "Dear wife, Regardless of which Mr White I am, I am still the luckiest of them to have you"

He then leaned down and gave her a sweet kiss on the forehead.

Adrianna melted into his arms. "OH there will be a banquet held in a couple of days at Star Ocean Group! As you work with Happy Sun Transport you should be going right?" she asked suddenly.

Gerald smiled "of course I will be going, how could I not be going? I would not miss this banquet for the world!"

"I hope mother will announce me as CEO at the banquet in front of everyone" Adrianna voiced her hope.

"She would be an idiot not to!" Gerald said in response.

Adrianna's phone buzzed. It was a message from Lewis. "Check the family Social Media" is all it said.

Adrianna pushed herself back from Gerald's arms and pulled her phone up, going to the social media page.

Both Gerald and her watched as the page was opened.

They both gasped at the same time.

"Wife this is wonderful news! See, I told you, you have to speak things into existence!" Gerald said.

The page said they would announce a change of CEO at the Banquet and looked forward to sharing this wonderful news with everyone in person. The new CEO would remain secret till then.

This is exactly what Adrianna had hoped for. She was beside herself with joy. She hugged Gerald tightly. "I will never doubt you again sweet husband!" and went to kiss him on the lips.

Gerald turned his head and she got his cheek instead.

"You should never have doubted me to begin with! Silly wife, Have I not always been a dutiful husband?" and then he kisses her forehead back.