Chapter 13

Everyone was shocked but they all thought differently.

“Sister, thank you so much,” Kaylee said with a proud look.

She believed that Rhiannon had been pretending and that she still cared about her that was why she was doing what she was doing. She smiled stupidly as she looked around she wanted everyone to see how close she was with Rhiannon.

Rhiannon was confused when she heard the words and was even more confused when she saw Kaylee’s smile. But after a while, she relaxed as she knew what kind of a person Kaylee was.

Even without asking further, she knew that the latter had misunderstood her intentions.

She smiled at her and gave a warm atmosphere as if she wasn’t the one who was cold in a few minutes.

“What do you mean?” Rhiannon asked.

“Sister, I know that you don’t want people to know how close we are but does it matter? I don’t know why you ruined my day but I forgive you. You, as the president, and I, as the vice president will make sure that the company moves to a higher level,” Kaylee said innocently causing Rhiannon to laugh loudly as she understood the latter’s shamelessness.

“Sister, why are you laughing?” Kaylee asked.

“What? Should I ask for your permission before laughing?” Rhiannon asked with a mocking smile on her face.

As someone who loved acting and pretending to be pitiful while she was mocking others, Kaylee understood Rhiannon’s smile better than anyone else.

“Sister, are you laughing at me because you think that I will be of no use in the company? Although I am not as talented as you are, I am sure that I will be of help to you,” Kaylee said as she cried making some of the shareholders think that Rhiannon had indeed gone a little too far.

Rhiannon saw that the way some of them had been looking at her had changed and could understand what was in their minds as she had been there once. Her heart had always softened when she saw Kaylee’s pitiful gaze and words that seemed as if she had been wronged.

“Why are you all looking at me like that? It is like you are blaming me for her cries but everyone is a witness here that I haven’t done or said anything to make her cry,” Rhiannon said making the speechless.

“Now that she wants everyone to think that I am bullying her. What I am going to say next will surely make her cry and not shed fake tears but real tears,” Rhiannon said coldly making Kaylee embarrassed and glare at Rhiannon forgetting that she was pretending to be pitiful.

Unlikely, some of the shareholders were still looking at her thus they saw her glare and they frowned knowing that they had indeed been fooled by the girl.

“As I said, you will no longer be the design department manager but that doesn’t mean that you will be the vice president. As far as I know, my uncle had been the company’s vice president since my mother founded this company. You, as an outsider, a bastard, an illegitimate child what right do you have to take that position?” Rhiannon asked coldly and with a mocking smile.

“Rhiannon! Don’t go too far!” Kaylee said in between her teeth as her eyes were full of hatred.

“What? Did I say anything wrong or tell lies? Aren’t you a bastard? Or did your other find the company?” Rhiannon’s sharp tongue made it impossible for Kaylee to refute.

If it was any other time, Mr Clark would have stood for Kaylee but when he lifted his head and saw Rhiannon’s bodyguard, he cowered back in fear that they might kill him anytime if he offended her.

“Kaylee, you should know better what you have been doing in that office since you took it. Also, have you ever produced any good work? Since you started working here, you haven’t designed anything. Your work has been coming into the office and lazying around. Do you think that we have enough money to waste here? If you can’t do anything go back home and sleep and let those who want to work do the work!” Rhiannon said coldly.

“How can you say that when last year’s design was mine? If it weren’t for my design, the company wouldn’t have profited so much,” Kaylee retorted making Rhiannon tap the table

“Oh? You dare claim that those designs are yours and you know better than everyone how you got your hands on those designs or do you want me to say it loudly?” Rhiannon asked shocking Kaylee as she never thought that anyone knew her secret.

“You! What are you doing? Can you stop slandering me?” she said as she cried.

“If you want to cry go outside and you will find our mother there. You can cry on her shoulders. Don’t cry here in front of us expecting to gain people’s sympathy,” Rhiannon refuted making Kaylee speechless, and found it awkward to continue pretending.

“You have even been mistreating the designers. As their manager, some of their designs pass through you before they are taken to the CEO and the president. What have you been doing? You claim their designs as theirs and when some of them find out and start complaining, you blackmail them. Don’t dare provoke me for everything you have done is enough for you to be imprisoned,” Rhiannon said.

“If I can’t work there then I want to be the finance manager,” Kaylee said shamelessly causing Rhiannon to raise her eyebrows at her.

“Yes, after all, aren’t I the second largest shareholder?” she added.

Rhiannon nodded her head as she never expected the latter to be so shameless.

Even some of the shareholders were now shaking their heads in disappointment as they couldn’t believe that they nearly made such a person their leader.

“Well, yes you are the second largest shareholder but you don’t have any experience Also, don’t take me for a fool as I know that you want to be the finance manager so that you can secretly put some money in your pocket. To you, now that the company can’t fall in your hands, you can destroy it instead of it being in my hands, am I right my dear sister?” Rhiannon said calmly but her eyes glared at Kaylee coldly making her lower her head out of fear.

She started panicking inwardly as she wondered how Rhiannon knew what was in her mind and what she planned on doing once she got the position.

“If you want to work in the company, there is no problem but you have to start from the bottom just as I did,” Rhiannon said as she couldn’t wait to see Kaylee suffer.

“What? How can you do that to me? You are my sister and this is my family business! Also, I have shares here thus how do you expect me to do such a thing?” Kaylee asked loudly.

“Did you forget that I did the same jobs even though my father was the president and I had the majority shares? Another thing, you are right on one thing, this is a family business. Do I have to remind you of your identity? If you can’t do the work, just go home,” Rhiannon retorted as she didn’t see any need to leave face to her.

“Dad, if you can get your shares back, I can give you the president’s seat!”