Worse than this

And yet you say you are not 'cruel'? Isn't this all a bit too much? Making him lose everything. I mean, he's a jerk, but I don't want him to suffer all this because of me.

"Cruel for me is something else. If I chop off his arms and legs and throw him in the streets to beg, then that is cruel, my dear."

"Stop it! How can you say such things? He is a human being, for God's sake.

" He is not a human in my eyes. Anna, you don't know what filthy work he has been doing all this while. I don't want you to know also. Please don't think too much. Just take rest." Michael said it so sternly that Ann could not argue anymore. After all he was her boss.

Ann was having mixed feelings. She wanted Oswald to get punished, but not to this extent. After much thought, she decided to trust Michael's decision as she somehow felt that he would be having a good reason for doing all this.

Ann looked at Michael, who had now made himself comfortable on the sofa, with his legs on the table and working on his laptop. She sighed. "I am feeling really comfortable having him around. And that's not good."

She slowly dozed off to sleep.

***********************************

In Oswald's office, a man was tensely walking in the room talking on his phone. Most of the things were smashed on the floor. Papers were flying everywhere.

"Please understand, Mr. Swen. Don't do this right now. We are going through a tough situation. Every client is cancelling our orders. They were all in good terms with us till yesterday. I don't know what happened."

"It seems that you have offended someone big, Mr.Oswald. I was forced to cancel the order from your company. It sounds like everybody has been forced to do the same. Did you upset some one recently? If yes, go and beg for mercy. I have already said too much. Bye Mr. Oswald."

Beep....Beep....Beep...Beep. The call ended.

The door opened and his assistant entered the room. He was surprised as well as scared to see his boss's room upside down. He slowly walked up to him and reported the details.

"Boss, each and every share, except yours has been purchased by a single person. It seems that he holds more power than you in your company now."

A loud smash was heard and pieces of glass were lying scattered all over the floor.

" WHAT THE F*CK, WHO THE F*CK IS HE?" Oswald was enraged.

His assistant was so scared he took some steps back from where he stood.

" He.. he is...he is one among the 5 richest people in the world, The chairman of Theós.

The God of the e-commerce industry, Mr.Michael Smith."

A look of shock registered on Oswald's face. He now realized who he had offended. He never even once thought that Michael would be such a big shot. At that time, he believed that Michael was just a newbie and behaved arrogantly towards him. He thought that he could get Ann, who he had been longing for ages.

Oswald put his hands on his head and sat down cursing.

"He recently purchased, 'W' our supplier, which is in a totally different sector from his original business. We couldn't find much information about him as it is very well concealed from the outside world." His assistant reported.

Oswald began to replay all the events from yesterday in his mind. He understood now that Ann was someone very special to Michael, and that's probably why he had purchased the whole company W. That transaction would not have even dented his overall fortune, which ran into billions of dollars.

" One more thing Boss", the assistant started to speak again, but stopped, hesitating to proceed with the conversation further.

"Just spit it out already. What could be worse than this?"

"I found out that someone was searching about our underground drug business, and some data seems to have leaked. I have a strong doubt that it is Mr.Smith's hands behind it".

A huge slap was heard across the room.

"YOU IDIOT! HOW COULD YOU LET THAT HAPPEN!!!".