Chapter 21: Unexpected Meeting

It was a sunny morning, the following day after the horrible incident took place at the party, the news was still circulating and Xavier was still doing everything he could in order to bring it down, after dropping Justin off at school, he started heading to the company.

As he was driving to the company, his phone started ringing, without hesitating, he brought out his phone to check the caller ID which was the director of the hotel where the party had taken.

Without hesitating he connected his phone to the Bluetooth of his car before picking up.

"Hello Mr. George how are you?" Xavier asked through the phone.

"I'm fine sir what about you," the voice of Mr. George sounded from the other end.

"I'm fine too, hope you find out what I requested for?" Xavier asked him.

"I'm so sorry Mr. Xavier but I didn't, the security guard informed me this morning that the security cameras had some technical issues last night during the event, so he wasn't able to recover the footages," the security guard said to him and immediately he scoffed through the phone.

"And you expect me to believe that right? Please tell me, aside from the room where the party took place, is there any other room in which the security cameras had issues?" Xavier asked Mr. George.

"Actually the security guards are checking it out, I sincerely apologize for the inconveniences," Mr. George said to him.

"Hold your apologies for yourself," Xavier said to him before hanging up.

Once he hanged up, he placed another call across Ben, actually, after calling the previous night, after calling the director to request for the footages of security cameras, he had knowing called Ben too to get it for him even if it meant that he will hack the cameras and get the footages.

With the video that was circulating online, the footages were the only evidence that could prove to everyone including his clients that what had been happening to his company recently isn't due to carelessness but someone had been trying to ruin his image and that of his company, and if possibly the person's face reflects in the footage, it will be a double win for him, not only will he able to spare his company of the image hovering over it, he would also expose to the whole world the person who wants to ruin him.

After some minutes of ringing, Ben picked up the call.

"Good morning sir, how are you?" Ben asked Xavier.

"I'm good, hope you got me the footages that I requested for?" Xavier asked Ben through the phone.

"I'm sorry sir, but the enemy was one step ahead again, I tried hacking the security cameras just as you had instructed, but everything was already wiped off," Ben said to Xavier who sighed heavily.

"That was the same thing the director of the hotel told me, I thought that he was lying, when you are done at warehouse, come over to the office, I have some works for you," Xavier said to him through the phone.

"Ok sir, have a nice day sir," Ben said to him before hanging up.

After the call, Xavier drove directly to the company.

Once he got to the company he walked directly to his office, ignoring everyone's greetings.

Once he got into his office, he sighed heavily before removing his suit and hanging it on his chairs, with that he sat down and switched on his computer in order to work on the remaining reports he was working on the previous day.

As he was about to start on the reports, he heard a knock on his door.

"Come in," he ordered and immediately the door bursted open, his secretary walked.

"Good morning sir," the secretary greeted him once she walked in.

"Yes good morning, how can I help you?" Xavier asked her.

"Actually I wanted to remind you of the meeting you have this morning with the shareholders of the company," the secretary said to him and immediately he furrowed his brows in surprise.

"What meeting, I don't remember organizing any meeting with anyone this morning," Xavier said to her.

"But Mr. Renold came here this morning with other shareholders of the company, they said that they have a meeting with you this morning," the secretary said to him.

"What!" Where are they?" Xavier asked her.

"They are all waiting for you in the conference room," The secretary said to him.

"Ok thank you, wait for me outside ?" Xavier said to the Secretary who nodded in reply before walking away.

"Once she left, he stood up and took his suit and wore it back before heading outside, once he came out, his secretary followed him and started heading to the conference room.

Once he got into the conference room, just as stated by the secretary, all the shareholders of the company were present in the conference room, from their facial expressions, he could already tell that something was wrong.

Without waisting any time, he walked into the conference room with his secretary and took his seat while his secretary stood beside him.

"Good morning everyone, sorry for keeping you all waiting," Xavier apologized to them despite knowing that he wasn't at fault.

"Good morning Mr. Xavier, you don't have any reason to apologize, we were the ones who organised the meeting without informing you, so we are the ones who should apologize for that," Mr. Renold who had the biggest share in the company said to him.

"I understand, whatever it is that called for this meeting must be something very urgent, so can I know to what it is, let's get it done with, I will also appreciate it if you go straight to the point because I have tons of work waiting for me in my office." Xavier said to them.

"Well the main why we organised this urgent meeting is because we want to inform you that we all want to withdraw our shares from your company," Mr. Renold said to Xavier.

"What!!" Xavier exclaimed in surprise.

To be continued..