Chapter One

Logan Jack walked into the meeting room

with a lady and a gentleman behind him.

Everyone was dressed in official wear for work and everyone wore a serious look. The people already in the wide luxurious looking room stood up as a sign to acknowledge his presence.

He took a look at each of their faces before he took his seat, no one dared to speak yet.

He opened the file in front of him immediately and looked through before he gave a go-ahead signal to a young man already standing right in front of the table to present his work, the young man presented his work as he said, "we're going to construct a new store that sales textiles at lower prices so that the customers who...." Logan Jack cuts in "are you saying that we should be a cheap company by constructing a new store that sales cheap textiles?" he asked as he rolled his eyes from the files in front of him to the man presenting. The man replied to him with a trembling voice "I'm not necessarily saying..." Logan Jack cuts in again, we don't sell in cheap amounts... I think you're cut out for this company. My father didn't start this company to sell out to cheap people, you are fired!!! Everyone in the room gasped but didn't let it become obvious, "But... But....." before the man could say a word, he had already gotten up and walked out of the room without any emotion on his face. The same lady and gentleman that followed him in followed him out as well. There was disarray and silence in the room, no one dared to speak up on the harsh injustice he displayed.

The man who just got fired snorted in anger after his boss left, and began to rant "who in the world does he think he is?" he asked in a very calm but frustrated tone as everyone stood up and let the room. Logan jack's secretary who stood by and saw the whole scene quickly sneaked towards him and said to him in a low tone "that's Logan Jack, the president and CEO of one of the world's top department stores. He owns this company as well "she added as he slowly turned his head to her and said while sobbing like a baby "I know..., I used to work for him in his other company and now again am jobless, as he continued sobbing and quietly picked his files and walked out.

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Logan Jack sat in his comfy seat in his large office going through files on his table when two men that work in the company came in. He asked them immediately " so what are you saying, that we have a new competitor? " he said with a straight face when he finally looked up to their faces as they both took a look at themselves before turning back to Logan jack then one of them answered fearfully " ye--yes sir"... And what have you done about that? he asked them again in a harsh and cold tone, the two men were silent for some seconds before one of them finally spoke out, " we're trying our best to beat them and still remain the top best " the man said in a shaky voice".

Logan Jack stood up from his seat and walked out to stand in front of them as he leaned on his desk and put both of his hands in his pocket. He glanced at them with a mean look on his face and asked them "so what you two are telling me is that at the end of every month, you two go home with heavy pockets and all you could say is you've been doing us your best? both men couldn't answer cause the knew they were already in trouble.

Logan Jack brought out his hands from his pocket and picked up the file that was on the table, he flipped to a page and turned it to them "according to this graph, our monthly sales have gone down by 20 percent while our competitors went higher, why is that so? "he asked, and as usual none of the men were able to speak out for fear of losing their jobs.

"Where has all the money gone? Why is there no improvement in constructing new stores and why does the budget suddenly seem too expensive for this company? Who is owing to us? Explain everything to me this minute! " he yelled at them which sent cold shivers down their backs.

"Well, sir.... the truth is..." the other man started as Logan jack raised his eyebrows expectantly," About ten-ten million is missing from the company's account as he stammered and continued.

The truth is that when your father was alive, he was a good friend of the owner of Marvin company so when Marvin company almost went bankrupt from a failed project, your father lent them 15 million dollars to get back to their feet on the promise to slowly pay back but along the line, they kept on asking for more till your father Williams jack died.

Logan Jack was silent for a while before he spoke up "so you're saying Marvin Company owes this company about 15 million dollars over the years and they haven't been able to pay back even a million? "he asked as the two men still buried their heads in silence without uttering any reply to his question. He continued "my father was lenient with people," Logan said as he ordered one of the men to review the case and write it into a file and hand it over to him and the man nodded in agreement to what he asked him to do.

After the conversation they had, the two men stood to take their leave when Logan called back the oldest of them named Mason Owen. Mason Owen was older than Logan Jack, he was probably in his early forties while Logan Jack was in his late twenties, he was average in height and had a lenient body, his eyes were brown, his hair had some stripes of Grey and the corner of his eyes showed wrinkles.

Mason Owen has worked with the company for some years back when Logan's father Williams Jack was alive and when Logan was still schooling at Harvard University. Wh en Mason Owen came back, Logan jack said to him "you've been working in this company for the past 10 years so you probably know what went wrong when my father was still alive, so want you to quickly come up with an idea on how to deal with this case as you hand over the file "he concluded and Mason Owen nodded a yes before he left.

Logan Jack was still busy with his work till he heard a knock on the door and he ordered the person knocking on the door to come in, the door opened and a young woman of about her mid-twenties walked in. She had a well-packed curly hair, she has exceptionally fair skin and was dressed in a black cooperate skirt, a sky blue chiffon and a comfortable hilly pair of shoes to go with. She walked up to him," I'm sorry to disturb you sir but you have a meeting to attend this evening and you have to have to get going" the lady told him.

"Tell the driver to get the car ready", he said as she nodded and left the office to inform the driver. Soon after, he left for his home to change into something suitable for the meeting.