Disaster Management Group

Board meeting of the Goldstone realty was in procession. John Dalton had been presiding, discussing the potential damage done to the repute of the company pertaining to the killing of Maria.

Maria who had been the most important and gregarious constituent of this esteemed company had gotten herself killed and now the stakeholders wanted to remove the slur cast upon them by her untimely and conflictual death.

Various members under the influence of utter grief wanted to liquidate the company. They were such people who thought of Maria irreplaceable as a chief executive of Goldstone realty. Rest of them were in a fright as they were on the cusp of losing their game in business. If they haven't managed this unexpected human disaster any sooner, they could have lost every single penny, they have invested in the company. They thought of Maria nothing more than an employee who was a female and fragile one. It was her fault that she got killed. But various others knew how far she was involved in dealing their affairs with honesty, intuition and professional proclivity. As of now she has embraced an eternal life, various people with diverse interests in the cause of her death were arguing with each other about what should be anticipated and what should be their future under such circumstances.

"But how can you say that it's matter of time and soon everyone shall forget about her? Don't you think we must support the cause of FIA investigation, and cooperate as much as needed, after all her soul needs to be regarded" Joshua spoke with his voice drenched in sorrow.

He was a man in his late fifties, got no son to handle his business and thus he was mostly dependent on Maria to get his business managed. Maria had hired and supervised a team of employees which had a profound sense professionalism. This was how Joshua enabled himself to make headlines in business journals few times. Attributed to Maria's vigilant acts, his shares ranked high in stock market and he was open to the most appropriate selling price but then this Maria incident happened and he succumbed to the confused thoughts of selling or not selling the shares of company.

Not only Joshua's, Maria was related to everyone's affairs either business or co-business matters. She was deeply informed of everything going around and thus she represented the company in it's best way possible. Various factors in the company led to the severe opposition of Maria and called into question her professional capabilities as a woman but time and circumstances proved her to be the best assistance on the executive seat. Maria had been working there since her graduation from UOC, Los Angeles. She had her extensive ties with intercompany and intracompany officials. she was well appreciated in her ambience.

once she was paid a tribute with an award called 'CEO of the year' in intercompany award ceremony. Her loss was heartfelt by majority but some business-inclined people were forgetful and inconsiderate of her contributions to the Goldstone realty.

John Dalton frowned at Joshua's plea and uttered in mere disgust:

"you are forgetting that by letting those stray dogs (FIA agents) out in the premises of the company could have halt our business, they would confiscate the property and scrutinize our every business affair. Our future is in immense jeopardy, Joshua!".

Joshua seemed to be understanding the shout out of John. He, for once thought about himself and his future and he found John right on this point.

Company was on a tight spot these day. FIA had been dealing with them with intense perusals. They had not even spared a single person and drew everyone into the realm of doubt.

John Dalton was completely surrounded by anxiety as he was the major stakeholder of the company and the leading character for all other contemporaries. Although he feigned the courage and tried to look confident among others but God knew noose of Maria's murder investigation was continuously tightening around his neck. He had been under scrutiny for days even though he was a tycoon and an exemplary business man.

Agent had asked him in one of the investigative session that what does he think about Maria's death and he replied in certain arrogant tone and contemptuous manner:

"you know business is all about survival, one who cannot survive the competition shouldn't even be named"

Agent's face got as white as snow and he had no choice other than to mention his name in potentially guilty people.

Agent spoke again in a grave tone

"where's her dead body?"

John Dalton had been expecting this type of inquiry question or he was too devilish to get worried about this petty issue. He spoke in scornful manner:

"hey agent what's your name?" then he turned down his question "no need to tell me" then again he spoke, looking directly into agent's eyes, stood while speaking and said "I don't know where her dead body is because no one saw her dead."

John's disclosed statement made the heads of those agents turned around. They saw each other in utter bewilderness and couldn't spoke a word to this giant man.

"may be your direction of inquiry is wrong, you need to go after the man who informed you of her death"

Another harsh strike on the faces of those agents. How come they can ignore the person who told them of a murder in the lot of goldstone realty. How come that dead body vanished on its way to the hospital for post mortem.

Those agents stood up and were about to leave the room allotted for the sake of investigation but stopped on the words of john.

"maybe you need to ask someone remained closer to her in the company"

Agents seemed as if they understood the hint in the tone of John. They turned around left the room, leaving behind john with an evil smile spreading on his whole face.