14 I gotta look cool in front of my girlfriend

"I am pretty sure I am not an idiot since I had everything planned, the moment the real idiot arrived," I said confidently, though I didn't anticipate that Ian and Caitlin would have a physical fight, he even fainted from the pain, I hope nothing bad happens to Uncle Hoyle's grandchildren of the future.

"did you- even know that a pistol would be pointed at you!?" she yelled at me.

"uhh well I did predict that there were chances of him pointing a gun at me to threaten me but hey I got the timing right, and I was pretty sure that the reinforcements I asked for would arrive soon."

"but then why in the world did you confront him with that evidence you recorded!?"

"well, uhh that was because uhh I wanted to look cool?"

she punched me again, this time it had some force behind it "yeah, it did look cool, but don't you ever try something that dangerous just to look cool again!"

I smiled "hey I gotta look cool in front of my girlfriend, right?"

she wiped her tears, looked right in my eyes, and then smiled, it felt like a true smile, with genuine feeling behind it. "yeah right, the richest man has to put his life on line just to show off to his girlfriend."

I nodded "you know what, the previous situation where you cried and called me idiot was sooooo... cliche that it reminded me of some manga I read a while ago."

she smirked, she smoothly got her hand at my waist, and then pinched me with all her might. pain shot up my waist like crazy. "ow! ow! stop!" she let go when I yelled stop "what was that for!?" I asked as I rubbed the spot she pinched."

"for ruining such a good moment," she said while still smiling, "alright I have to get ready to leave now." she got up from the couch and went to her room to change.

Even I had a meeting today so, I had to get ready and leave too.

since I fired the housekeeper, Caitlin did the cooking, well..... I am gonna be honest here, turns out, Caitlin doesn't really know how to cook and we barely had any food, so we only had some instant noodles as we didn't even have any milk or cereal. Since we didn't have any groceries we made a plan to go out shopping later today, I gave her my personal contact number, as well as Mike's so that she can contact either me or him if she gets into any kind of trouble.

I left first and Caitlin said that she will leave later.

Mike came to pick me up and it took us around an hour to reach our building, the K.I. group's pride,

The tallest building in the world. Exceeding the Zurj Zhalifa by a whole 100 meters. a giant making all the other buildings around it looking like dwarves in front of it.

the meeting was held on the third floor from the top. the CEOs of all of the 9 sub-companies under the K.I. group which had a revenue of more than two hundred billion were gathered in the meeting room. everyone had a stern look on their faces, the 9 of them were seated around a huge oval table. nearly all of them in their mid-thirties or forties.

I took my seat. "so what are we gonna work on today" I said in a stern and serious tone.

the woman who sat opposite to me looked at me, she had blonde hair tied back in a bun wearing a black turtle neck. "Kalorant was released by my company three months ago and since then its popularity has skyrocketed, today we will be strictly testing the game."

I nodded "all right, does anyone object?"

no one reacted.

"fine by me then." I switched a small lever beneath my table and the whole gaming station came out for everyone sitting at the table, everyone had a triple monitor setup with our premium grade keyboard, mouse and headphones.

everyone simultaneously booted their systems, the lighting of the room dimmed.

the man sitting next to me from the left raised his hand "I call dibs on Mr.Key today."

the turtle neck lady objected "let's form a private lobby first and then draw lots to form teams."

once the teams were decided everyone put on their headphones and started working, by working I mean playing a whole ton of matches in Kalorant.