Chapter 5

Katherina stood under the warm shower as water droplets continued to fall on her unclothed body. She had left Xavier's villa after a toe curling sex she had with him. Katherina sighed feeling a bit guilty for cheating on Mason especially right now that she was carrying his baby. Her phone rang bringing her out of her reverie, she turned of the shower, wrapping herself in a bath robe, she headed out of the bathroom. Katherina checked the caller id and was surprisingly to see mason's name flashing on the phone screen. She hesitated before answering the call "Hey Mason"

"Meet me at Reynolds hotel" Mason ordered her with a soft tone. Katherina felt tears brimming up as soon as she heard his voice, oh how she had missed that sound!, "when" she managed to ask,

"5pm" he replied her and ended the call.

Angela stared at the phone screen for a long time and a ghost of smile appeared on her face. Thankfully she still had like 5 hours before her meeting up with Mason.

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Thomas creased his brows in frustration as he stared at the paperwork at his front. He had just arrived at New York earlier and was immediately dragged to a meeting which resulted to this situation in which he found himself in.

The board members stared at him in expectation waiting for his reply on the matter at hand

"Mr. De rossa, you've got to think about this decision you're about to take thoroughly" Joseph baldwick, a short man with a bald head said "for it will greatly affect the future of this company" he finished.

Thomas was in a dilemma, he either all the debts he owed or he sold half of the company shares. How was he supposed to decide this in just a short amount of time?. Right now, all he wished was a saviour to help him out. Just on cue the door opened and Ray, Xavier's right hand man entered the meeting room with a confident pose.

"Alphaplay wants to invest in your company's project" his voice rang out.

Everyone were shocked, how can a company that they wouldn't even dream of will want to invest in D&co enterprise which was currently swimming through debt.

At this moment, Thomas thought he had a saviour, he felt relieved but cautious as he had never met the CEO of Alphaplay even though he wished to..

"Why would Alphaplay want to invest in my company?" Thomas asked calmly.

Ray say the excitement in his eyes and sneered internally, "every two years, Alphaplay chooses a company to invest in and D&co is lucky to be this year's chosen winner!" Ray answered with an indifferent tone. "But as long as 50% of your profits comes to us and the remaining 40% belongs to you. And we'll also buy half of your shares".

Thomas thought this through and through, it would certainly be a good deal for now with the rate at which his company was going. Ignoring the looks of other board members, he straightened up "then we have a deal"

"Perfect!!" Ray declared "the documents will be delivered to you tomorrow to sign, make sure you do so" he ordered and left without looking back.

The board members felt annoyed at Thomas for not consulting them but they dare not question him or raise any objections.

Thomas felt relieved at the events of today obvious of what was to come in the future.