Checkmate

Inside a huge conference room on the 10th floor of the building, a group of men were seated, all dressed up in posh professional attire with their suits probably costing several thousand dollars.

More importantly, everyone had an indifferent, arrogant look and clearly displeased that they were being made to wait.

"What happened? The princess is not here yet?" The chair at the head of the table, Jonathan Hofstader, mockingly commented. 

When Mia's father was alive, he had always called her their princess and the man did not hesitate to mock his dead brother's words.

And this cruel remark only fell flat on the other gathered big shots' ears. 

The men sitting around the conference table all either indifferently continued about with their business or sneered in disdain just like the chair at the head of the table.