Chapter 103 - Problems One After Another

Samual Faye paced his office as he rued the over the failure once again! Dam* it! No wonder she had not done anything until now and had been silent! She had pulled the rug from under them. He had enough of catering to his father's wishes! It was time now to take out the aces! Walking to the cabinet in one corner, he slowly opened a drawer. Pulling out a magnetic pen from his pocked he then placed it on the bottom of the drawer and slowly pulled it out, revealing a thinner hidden compartment within the drawer. And then he removed the papers from inside. Checking the papers carefully, Samual finally accepted that he still had a way out and even if Alice were to try and do anything, she would not be able to in front of these! 

In her apartment, as soon as they returned, Alice jumped on Adam and kissed him hard before excitedly saying," I can't believe that you actually had Lance Inc. sign our underwriter partnership! With them having underwritten Faye Group shares, once the IPO is out, our prices will be soaring! How did you even do that? Lance Inc. has some one the most stringent procedures in vetting their companies! And you actually had them sign the contract within a short time! How did you do that? Now, the CEO of the company had been a woman, I could have still believed that she was probably in a daze because of you but the Chairman of Lance Inc. is the dragon lord himself! Sir Ryu Long! Then how did you even?"

A snort interrupted Alice's musing and she realized, "Oops! She had turned over the vinegar jar by the mention of another man in that appreciative tone! Laughing, she kissed him hard on the mouth and asked again, "Fine! Fine! I won't praise another man! My K is the best! He was able to bend Ryu Long to his will also! But you have to tell me how you did it!"

This caused Adam to laugh out loud as he said," It is all your hard work! You have worked so hard on this project that Chairman Long would not have let it go! everyone knows that man has an eye on every profitable project! I simply pushed your file a bit to reach his table a bit faster. The agreement would have been there eventually if you had time and had taken the rightful route!"

Alice tried to find out what favor K had done to make Ryu Long indebted to him but the man simply refused. In his mind, he thought there was no way he was going to tell her that Ryu Long had only done this because her name was similar to the man's wife and the man owed him for getting their senior band-BTS' autographs for his wife in the past!

Holding her in his arms, he was about to ask her for a kiss of reward, when his phone rang. The tune caught his attention and he frowned as he answered," Benji?"

Seeing that he was busy talking on the phone, Alice made her way to the kitchen to grab a glass of water for herself as well as him. But halfway there, her phone also dinged with a message. Ignoring it, she filled a glass of water when Adam came in hurriedly, "Babe! A friend is in need! I have to go get him! I will be back soon!" Before Alice could have nodded, Adam had already left like the wind. Slowly sipping at her own glass, Alice could only frown. She should have offered to help him. Thinking to call him, she checked her phone but when she saw the name of the sender, her hand froze midway. Usually, Samual Faye would rather attack than negotiate. But this time he had sent her a direct threat! Frowning, she tried to guess what he could have up his sleeve but was at a loss. She had kept a keen eye on the man! So what could he have. She was about to disregard his threat as someone who was simply talking desperately when he sent her a picture. Clicking on it, she had just read about half a page when it was deleted! No! How could he have done that! And then came another message! "Now you know that I am not bluffing. See you soon."

Picking up her coat, and a few other items from a cabinet, she moved speedily out of the house towards the hotel that the man had mentioned.

At the Green Bay Hotel:

Samual sipped the coffee leisurely as he looked outside at the ducks there. He suddenly felt like them. Paddling furiously on the inside while outwardly they were calm. He too had worked hard these past few months and now he was going to reap the benefits. Picking up the file in his hands, he held it lovingly. Just then Alice reached the booth that he was sitting in and sat opposite him with a hard glare. Sigh! She looked so lovely even when she was hating him. 

He wondered if he should add a condition of being able to have her along with the other conditions that he was going to place but then decided to let them be! No, that would not make him happy. He would rather force her to beg to him. And only then he would take her! For now, he would savor this little victory.

Before he could even say a thing, she snatched the red file from his hands and started to read it. Shaking his head, he complained benignly, "At least you should say hello to your brother! Alice, you are getting ruder by the day."

Ignoring him, Alice continued to read the file and the blacked her face became the wider his smile. Picking up a bottle of champagne that was chilling on the table, he opened it carefully and poured two glasses, placing ne before her and holding the other in his hand. This was so much fun. "Come Alice! I have this champagne ready for us to celebrate. You had such a big victory today and now I am going to win something! As siblings we must celebrate each other's successes."

Instead of clinking the glass, Alice threw the file on the table and growled, "What nonsense is this?"

"What is the nonsense in there, Alice? I think it is very clear. I have recently found out that Grandmother has participated in setting up a Ponzi scheme and duped many innocent investors. She has also received many profits from these schemes. As an upstanding citizen, it is my duty to report such fraudulent activities to the Police. But then again I am a filial grandson and I can't help but hope that you will be able to save grandmother! I mean the poor woman had already suffered from a cardiac arrest and now if she is arrested at this age, she would not be able to take the shock. It is why I brought this file to you! Now, if you agree with this and are willing to help Grandmother then we can work a way out. You can help the investors by paying them back while saving grandmother. Do you know the punishment of running or starting a Ponzi scheme? It can lead to a long time imprisonment and enough fines to make a person turn into a beggar! And added to this the shame of having done a financial fraudulent activity might make grandmother lose her will to live because even if she is able to clear her name, which, let me tell you is next to impossible, there will always be gossip and her past hard earned goodwill will be in scrutiny! Heck some people might even suspect that Grandfather had been involved in such schemes."

After finishing what he had to say, Samual sipped from the flute waiting for Alice to burst out. But instead she simply said," You did all this. So how do you think you will be able to blame Grandmother?"

But Samual simply shook his head and reiterated," Uh huh. There are proofs that it was grandmother. You see the signatures on the forms? And these are the details of the bank statements. All the benefits have been gained by grandmother. How would I be involved in this. I simply stumbled across this in grandmother's home. Maybe she needed money and thought that this would be the easiest way.  Anyway, I don't know her motives. All I know is that I want to get rid of this evidence right away. Either I give it to you or I give it to the government investigative agencies. You can decide that. But don't take too long. This file is like a hot potato. I don't think I will be able to hold on for long. And if it lands in the investigative agency's hand, you can always try and get a bail for grandmother..."