RECAP- (Continue from recap on chapter 30) They arrive at the police station to know the case is closed and Ry pulled some strings to get the laptop much to the dismay of the officer. It is when Ry mentions about this case being closed by BJ (BlackJack) group because Ry is involved in this case that she comes to know Ry’s parents accident was caused by BJ group. What happens next? Well find out by reading the story.
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“What? How did you know who is behind their accident? Wait was it not an accident?” I ask in one breath after hearing such an astounding truth. It is impossible to meet the CEOs of BJ group let alone be in a conflict with them. What did his parents do to them to have such a fate?
BlackJack group was the most powerful group who has so many businesses which is rumoured that it was made to cover their dirty works. It is very difficult to have any business deals with them as getting an appointment with even their managers takes upto two years. Also because of their rumoured dirty works no one dares to work with them making them the most feared group. What was it that his parents had for BJ to kill them?
“Yeah the reason behind their accident was BJ group. And… What were the rest of the questions?” He asks looking at me making me realise I should stop asking so many questions in one breath if expect answer from him. Already he says something along the line of truth which is clear from his slips, he wont tell me what I need to know if I ask everything in one breath.
So I took a deep breath to calm down my mind which seems to be a hard task so I ask him “Why?”.
He averts his eyes from me and looks at the window which shows me how hard it is for him to open up about this matter. He too took a deep breath. “I don’t know why my parents was targeted. It was much after my research that I found out it was them who was behind their death. And it wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t the help from your dad.”
“My dad?” My dad contacted him during the time he avoided me?
He turned his head to me swiftly when he realised he made a mistake in telling me the information of meeting my father during the time period he ignored all my calls and visits to his house. The time period where even my father apparently lied to me about not being able to see him. How many more lies are yet to be revealed? How many more truths are to be said until I reach the quota of remaining as a sane person?
“Shit you weren’t supposed to know that.”
“Well apparently who have slipped way too many times for me to notice you are hiding something. Didn’t think it would be related to my father. When did you meet him? How? If I am correct it was the time where you were avoiding us.”
He looked down and kept looking as if he was making a decision in his head. After what seemed like hours but was just 2 minutes he looked up at me and exhaled.
“Fine you want the truth I will tell you what happened. After my parents death I wanted to be alone. You know the feeling the loosing two important people in your life. I felt lost. It wasn’t even one day after their funeral that I received a call from the office saying we were loosing our money as our clients were withdrawing their deals with us. You know how much I hated the idea of being closed in the four walls of my office and that I preferred to be with the nature and be a photographer. But it wasn’t even 24 hours after their funeral that was forced to enter the business life. I tried to be a lenient and friendly boss like my father but realised that only gave doubts to our shareholders of my efficiency. Or in their words too young to handle the pressure of being a boss at 25. That is when I realised being a softie won’t let me reach anywhere especially when there was some force pulling me down. That’s when I decided that I would turn into an insensitive or cold-hearted CEO as they say or else my dad’s sweat and tears would just go down the drain. I did some dirty work to get those shareholders under my command. Everything was going well until your dad just barged into my office one day to help me. I did everything to avoid you guys but your father being the stubborn himself just decided to barge into my life again when I needed no one to help me. At least that’s what I thought so.”
The whole time he said about my dad helping him he kept his eyes down as if the most interesting thing was his shoe.
“He helped me to dig some more dirt on those shareholders and that’s how I got complete power over my company and get rid of those shareholders. He was also the one who helped me to avoid you the most. I just didn’t want to face anyone especially you. Eventhough I didn’t want your dad to be there as well I am thanking my stars that he did stay with me. He was more like a boss and a mentor than a dad or my gir- ex-girlfriend’s dad.” He says raising his eyes to see my reaction to those last words. I still can’t believe my dad lied to me about not being able to contact Ry but was actually helping him to avoid me.
“It was during those times that I dealt with Raven’s stepfather and it was your father who dealt with the press and removed all the stories on the news in the blink of an eye keeping true to his name. The top hacker. It was also your father who told me to fire my HR team so that the news would be that they did the work and to hide it from the world I fired them earning me the title of the most heartless boss. It was also he who helped me to find it was BJ group behind my parent’s accident.”
He finally looks at me after he finishes his story. I mean the real truth behind all the stories. I still can’t believe my dad would do such a thing to me. Why?
“God I still can’t believe my dad lied to me about not being able to find you. When in reality it was he who helped you to hide from me. Why?”
“He said something about you being my weakspot and that it wouldn’t help me to have a hold in this industry if I have you by my side.”
“Thankgod at least Mandy was by my side. I don’t know what I would have done without her.” It didn’t go unnoticed that Ry rolled his eyes at the mention of Mandy but I decided it would be best to keep it in. ” I was lost when I was not able to find you it was Mandy who stood by me and said some random excuses to why you have gone MIA. Even when I was searching to find the people behind my parent’s death it was she who was by my side and didn’t lie to me about not finding you.”
“You wish.” Ry scoffs.
“What do you mean by your scoffing? She was the only one beside me during those dark tim-.”
“Did you know she and her father came to my office one day “to find me”.” He said quoting those words in air with his hands.
“Yeah she also told me that you wouldn’t allow them in and that they couldn’t meet you hence they got it by hacking the system in your company thereby getting your number for me to call.”
“You think they can get my number by hacking into “my” system? Which, by the way was created by your father?”
If what Ry said is true then Uncle Nick couldn’t possibly hack into his system to get his number since my dad is the second best in hacking aside from the original CEOs of BJ group. To be specific one of the CEO of BJ comes first then my dad then Uncle Nick and the other CEO of the BJ group. So then they could only get his number if-
“They did meet me.”