Changes

While coming here Matt had come across Dahlia. However, she walked past him with her usual stoic face without even glancing at him. A while later, Eder walked out and Matt approached him immediately.

"what happened?" Matt asked.

"nothing much" Eder replied simply and walked away. Matt looked at his back with a frown but he left to carry out the orders.

Eder sat in his car lost in thoughts. He sat there for an immeasurable amount of time. He then picked his phone and wrote a text. After a short while, his phone beeped and he replied to the text. That went on for a while before he started his car and drove away.

Freya was in her class with Yelia. She was telling her about the development while omitting the part with her sister. when she received a text from Eder. He asked to meet her. She told him that it was impossible but he told her that he would come still. Now she waited to see what will happen.

While she was seating with Yelia in the garden, Freya could feel the body guard's and other many eyes on her. She could tell that not only Emmett was watching her. Her sister was vigilant enough to have enough eyes on her. That only made her think that Dahlia knew about her meeting with Eder.

"hey.." Yelia called her out of her thoughts. " where is your mind? your phone is ringing" Feya did not realize that her phone was ringing. She pulled it out of her bag and when she saw the caller's name she became suddenly nervous. She looked around she did not know looking for what before answering the call.

"hello"

"I thought you did not want to answer me" Eder's voice rang on the other side.

"no that's not it" she said.

"well, like I promised I am here"

"what !?" she shouted before realizing and looking around nervously.

"what is so shocking? I told you I was coming"

"yes, but-"

"go to the toilets" he cut her off.

"what?" she did not understand.

"go to the toilets" he repeated before hanging up the call. Freya looked at her phone with a frown.

"what is it?" Yelia who was waiting anxiously asked.

"he wants me to come to the toilet"

"toilet?"

"yes, I also don't understand but I am going to check" she said standing up.

"Freya, I think this is going far"

"yes but I won't go back now." Freya said and walked away to the toilet, leaving Yelia behind with a worried gaze.

Freya reached the toilets. She stood inside looking around. It was empty. She looked at her phone intending to call him when she received at text from him.

[don't call. Look into the third cabin] Freya frowned. How did he know she was about to call. She shrugged and went to open the third cabin's door. What she saw inside shocked her.

Their was a girl who looked just like her. She was just finishing putting the last touch of her lipstick. Freya looked at the woman smiling at her and then she picked her bag and walked past her out of the toilet. If Freya was not herself right now she would doubt when she saw the other girl. She was surely a wonderful make up artist.

A buzz of her phone brought her out of her stupor.

[now get out through the window] Freya smiled. That man was smart. She wondered if Dahlia's men would see the different.

She pushed her head out of the window. The distance between the window and the floor was very high but it was no big deal for her. She went through it easily and jumped down. She landed smoothly on her feet. As she straightened up she saw a car stop in front of her.

"need a ride?" he asked and she smiled and climbed in.

"what if Dahlia's men notice?" she asked her smile disappearing being replaced by a worried expression.

"they won't notice anything. I took care of everything. And the last thing your sis can do is kill me and enclose you in your room for the… next 100 years" he shrugged and they laughed as he started his car and drove away.

Somewhere in the shadows, a man pulled his phone from his pocket and made a call.

"hello boss?"

"so?" a woman's voice echoed on the other end of the phone.

"it was as you said. He took her away"

"you know what to do"

"yes boss" Emmett said. Dahlia did not say anything more and just hanged up the phone. She looked at the screen with her usual unreadable expression, then pushed the door to the meeting room opened.

The room was filled with men. They were men from the board of directors previously appointed. Dahlia walked in feeling all their lustful and at the same time fearful gazes. It has always been like this, men with their disgusting ways.

She sat in the chair in front of them not one bit intimidated. It was even the other way around. The lust they previously felt had vanished and was replaced by discomfort. Dahlia made an announcement.

"I am going to make a few changes here." everyone waited to see what it was. She just scrutinized all of them one after the other, making them even more uncomfortable.

"excuse me ms Quinn." one of the courageous men spoke. "w- wha what kind of changes?" he stammered.

"patience is a virtue Mr Dew" she said calmly. Then she returned to be silent, just as the entire room. Their was a pile of folders in front of her. She picked one and went through it.

"Mr Stefford" she called. "you are the Chief Operating officer" she said as a matter of fact.

"yes" he replied with a shaky voice,

"the reports from the company's operation till date please" she demanded. Stefford picked up the folders in front of him. He was sweating.

"hum… uh.. the.."

"let me help you" Dahlia said casually and then she nodded towards Siara who had come with her and was seating at the large table with them.

"you are responsible for overseeing the operations of the company. The report before you is that of the last few months before the company was declared bankrupt and sold. They show an incoherence in the operations and the financial activities of the company"

"this can b-"

"you are fired" Dahlia cut him off. Stefford's eyes opened wide and then filled with fury.

"you can't do that. Mr Galann is not present. You can't take this decision alone"

"stop me" Dahlia said casually with a bored tone while, leaning back in the chair and crossing her legs one over the other gracefully. The man's rage escalated when he saw how Dahlia treated him.

"do you think you can come and make your law l-"

"if I were you I wouldn't finish this sentence and leave peacefully" Siara interrupted.

"you don't other me around!" he shouted.

"I can and I do" Siara said casually. "now leave" she said coldly. It seems like working with Dahlia made her somehow like her. He opened his mouth to talk again but Dahlia cut him off.

"Mr Stefford!" she called and he looked at her, making the mistake to look into her eyes. "leave peacefully" she said calmly. Stefford froze. His eyes widened and then blinked. He looked at her as if he had seen a ghost. He quickly picked his belongings and left. The rest were left to wonder what just happened.

Once he was away, the atmosphere in the room became tensed. Now all the men in the room looked highly uncomfortable.

"so we can now come to the Chief Financial Officer" Dahlia said and the man stiffened in his chair.