Meeting A Rake

"No.." Gabi pulled the files hard enough that Diana staggered in her heels. She looked at her mother with a frown and then looked at the files. Why was her mother behaving so strange?

"Why do you have this file with you and what are you doing with it?" Diana remembered this file. She had checked it in the morning and submitted it to Evangeline. Her eyes narrowed at her mother's sweating face. 

"Diana, leave the room at once. We will talk later." She pushed her daughter away and hid the files behind her. "I promise I will help you. But for now, leave." her commanding voice stunned Diana. Her mother never behaves so strictly until the matter is of grave importance. But she was only holding a file on tallying details of daily expenditure. What could be so important about it?