Marcus POV
I looked out of my floor to ceiling window in my office, looking directly at Metro Company with a scowl on my face, we were rivals but it wasn’t to a very bad extent, we can still eat together and appear in the same project but i hated Xavier McCartney with passion and will love to see him fall, we had this spat since grade school always competing in studies but unfortunately I came second place till when I changed classes, it always hurt my pride and Xavier pretending to be a righteous student gets my nerves.
“Sir, I have bad news”
My secretary interrupted my train of thought, I snickered.
“Go on and tell me , what is it this time?”
“Sir, the three shareholders has been discovered, I got the information from that gambling den owner, he said their debt has been paid and the shares taken back by Xavier himself ”
“Xavier did? Shit, I should have bought that shares then, what was I doing?”
“And I heard that they paid back to him with 20 percent shares, so they have ten which the two of us know that it’s a matter of time before he takes it back ”
“We need to do something, hope he doesn’t know we were behind it?, did you clean our path well?”
“Yes sir I did and besides those three didn’t know so I doubt he will know too”
“Duu, Duu, Duu”
My phone rang and I look to see an unknown number, I looked at my secretary, I was surprised because this is my private number, so noone except family has it.
“Who is this?”
“Hello to you Marcus ”
A very familiar voice sounded from the other line, how the hell did he get my number, well it’s Xavier we are talking about.
“Xavier ”
“Hi, Marcus, how are you doing?”
“Stop the fake greetings and go straight to the point, what is it?”
“Well, since you insist, well I saw the rats you planted in my company and am going to send them back to you, I have feed them enough ”
“Hahahaha, I don’t know what you are talking about, I hate rats”
“You won’t understand but don’t worry, you will understand soon, the message will be getting to you… about now”
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
“Bye… oh yes before I forget, I also sent you a little gift, hope you like it”
My secretary received a call at that moment and switched on the television, I nearly fainted when I saw the news
” That fucking son of a bitch, Xavier, I won’t let you get away with this, I won’t ”
The news was about me sponsoring models in exchange for sex, a picture of me and a model walking out from a hotel was seen, not that it’s hard for me to escape but it will give people ideas and the media’s will have their eyes on me all around and my family is the worst.
“Duu, Duu, Duu”
“Hello, mother ”
“Marcus, what is happening now, your father isn’t happy at all, get your ass back home rights this instant ”
“Okay mother, am coming, I will fix this in a while, then am coming back”
“Don’t bother, your dad has done that already, so come back to the main house ”
“Shit, shit, shit, goddamnit, Xavier!!!, Daniel gets the car ready, we are heading to the main house ”
We soon arrived at the main house and I waited for a while 10 minutes before getting out of the car and head inside.
“Father, Mother, Grandfather, Un…”
“Thack, Thack”
My father punched me on my face, I fell down but immediately got up (damn old man, still packed a healthy punch ), I massaged my jaw while moving it a bit (he shouldn’t have hit my face)
“How dare you scoundrel”
“Honey, wait let him explain himself huh”
“If you wanted to do those disgusting things, why did you get caught and by Xavier no less, always showing your incompetence one way or the other”
“Father, am sorry, I didn’t know how he got his hand on it, I made sure to clear everything ”
“It’s because of your incompetence, you aren’t smart enough, how can you let him outsmart you, if not that you are wiser than others, you wouldn’t have been made CEO”
“Austin that’s enough, you were much more worse during your time”
My grandfather spoke up, though my father said because am smarter in the whole family, I was actually made CEO because I am my grandfather’s favourite, seeing that he let my father berate me for long shows how angry he was, I went to himm and knelt down.
“Grandpa, am sorry, I made a mistake ”
“Austin, hope you have cleared his mess, seeing as Xavier gave them the scoop, it will be hard to sue that company, and I also heard he bought the company ”
My grandfather blatantly ignored me and said to my father, he’s really angry this time around, my grandfather and Xavier grandfather are more like frenemies, they are close privately but in business they are ruthless to each other so I know why my grandfather is angry, I kept quiet till everyone left.
“Grandpa, am sorry”
“Why did Xavier attack you all of a sudden?”
“I don’t know, who knows what he is thinking, maybe he wants to really announce war against us”
“Shut up, I know Xavier just like I know you well, you should know better not to lie to me, but one thing I know for certain is that next time you get into a scandal, I am sending you abroad to the other branch, I won’t defend you anymore ”
“Yes, grandfather, I have heard you ”
I soon left the main house and headed to my car, the punch I received from my father has bruised, (fucking old man).
“Xavier, I will get back at you for this, just wait”