Everything was going well for Sophia as the person with whom her father had connected her with, paved the way for her to get in touch with the Personal Assistant to the CEO of Annie Fashion Group. At first, the Personal Assistant wanted to turn down Sophia’s offer after hearing the reason she had reached out to them but magically, she gave in and promised to get back to Sophia after having discussed with their CEO. Two days went by with Sophia not getting feedback with the Personal Assistant. She tried getting in touch with her but she neither picked her calls nor responded to her mails. She was getting worried at this stage as she had only 5 days left out of the two weeks given to them to achieve their assigned task.


    Luckily for her, the Personal Assistant contacted her just 4 days left to reach the ultimatum and brought forth good news.


    “Hello, Sophia. Sorry for not getting in touch with you all these while. The CEO has been busy and I just had the chance to discuss with her, your proposed partnership” ire, the Personal Assistant said, taking a break, giving room for Sophia to respond just to make sure she was following her.


    “No problem, ire. I understand and I appreciate your effort. If I may ask, what is the oue of your discussion with her?” Sophia asked, all anxious, silently praying to get a positive response.


    “After much deliberation, she has decided to give yourpany a chance to have a coboration with us” ire responded, with joy evident in her voice, which showed she was happy for Sophia.


    “Really? Is this for real?” surprised and over-joyous Sophia asked, finding it hard to believe what she had heard.


    “Yes, it is. Congrattions, Sophia. She would like for you toe over in two days time by 9am to discuss the terms of condition with you. See you then, Sophia” ire further exined.


    “Two days time? Sure, I will be there. Thank you so much for your help, ire. I really do appreciate it. See you then” Sophia said, beaming with joy as she showed how appreciative she was to ire before disconnecting the call.


    “Yes, I did it!!!!!” Sophia yelled with joy, as she dropped her phone on the table in her office. It seemed unbelievable but she was finally able to pull it through.


    “I need to book my flight” Sophia said to herself, not being able to contain her joy as she picked her phone to dial Jack’s line. Although Los Angeles to Australia by flight was just a 15 hours journey and she would be able to meet up for the meeting if she took off the next day, she felt the need to take off the night of that same day ire called.


    “Book a flight flying in tonight to Australia for me” Sophia instructed, upon Jack picking her call.


    “Yes, Ma’am” Jack responded, ready to swing into action but was stopped by thement Sophia made afterwards.


    “And do not let anyone know about this. Is that understood?” Sophia queried in a firm tone.


    “Well understood, Ma’am” Jack responded, before hanging up on her.Property of N?)(velDr(a)ma.Org.


    Walking up and down in her office, she just kept on smiling, finding it hard to believe she was about achieving something huge all on her own.


    “Let’s see if she will still be as arrogant as she is once I take over thepany. I can’t wait to see the expression on her face once she sees me sitting on Daniel’s chair, with me dismissing her from her office” she giggled, anticipating the moment she was envisioning in her head.


    “Daniel must know about this. I need to let him know” she further thought, which made her dashed out of her office, heading to Daniel’s office. On getting to his office, she shared the good news with him and in no doubt, he was happy about it. He admired her determination and admonished her to ensure the rest of the coboration fell through. Sophia further told him of her n to fly to Australia that night to meet with the CEO of Annie Fashion Group and in which he wished her well. Few hours left for her flight to Australia to take off, Sophia headed home to get some of her toiletries and dresses she would be needing. Just as she finished packing, Jack arrived in time to drive her to the airport and at the same time, Edward arrived home from work.


    “Take this to the car” Sophia instructed Jack, handing her small suitcase over to him.


    “Yes, Ma’am” Jack responded, taking the suitcase and making his way to the car. On his way to the car, he met Edward who wasing in and paid him respect.


    Edward was confused seeing Jack carrying a suitcase and his confusion intensified upon entering the sitting room and seeing his wife picking up her handbag, getting ready to step out of the house.


    “Where are you going?” Edward, who had expected his wife to tell him where she was heading to asked, upon her walking pass him, heading to the door without deeming it fit to inform him about her movement.


    “Where am I going? Do I have to tell you that? It’s not as if you care. Anyways, I am on my way to get done, what you are unable to do” Sophia said scoffing, before making her way out, leaving Edward standing still. Edward didn’t think much of her action and just proceeded upstairs to Austin’s room.


    Her ne took off by 9pm that night and by 12:05pm the following day, shended safely in Australia. She lodged at a hotel and used the remaining hours of the day to prepare herself for what to say and not to say at the meeting. Night came and she tucked into bed early, so she could wake up as early as possible the following day. As early as 7pm the next day, she got up from bed, freshened up, ate breakfast and made her way to Anne Fashion Grouppany. She got to thepany at exactly 8:55am and was weed by the Receptionist who led her to the meeting room and told her to await both the CEO and ire in the room. They served her tea and there, she waited for the duo to arrive. Soon afterwards, seconds turned into minutes with minutes turning into hours. She checked her watch and it was already 12pm with both the CEO and ire noting forth. She was losing her patience andposure but she couldn’t get angry as she was there for a purpose. She kept on refraining herself from ring up and telling herself to be patient as they would soon be there. But it got to a stage when she couldn’t keep calm anymore. It was 1pm and still no green light of ire and their so-called “CEO” as Sophia had thought.


    “What is so special about them? Are they intentionally dying me? Do they fucking know who I am?” Sophiamented loudly, as she got up from her seat and headed towards the exit of the meeting room with  an annoyed expression on her face. Just as she was about to open the door, the door flung open, revealing a tall beautifuldy, putting on sses and who looked quite familiar. Sophia looked at her intently, wanting to remember where she had seen her before and it was then it drawn on her that she was ire. She had only seen her once when they had a zoom meeting, hence the reason she found it difficult at first, cing where she had seen her face before.


    “Hello, Sophia. Sorry for keeping you waiting. An urgent matter came up which I had to attend to. Hope you are not angry? It’s nice to finally see you in person. I am ire” ire said, stretching her hand forth to give Sophia a handshake, with a gorgeous smile on her face..


    “It’s nice meeting you too, ire. Not at all, I am not angry. I got enough time to rest after sitting in the ne for hours” Sophia lied, recing the anger on her face with a fake smile and taking ire’s extended hand in hers.


    “If you do not mind, let’s have our seats’ ire said, motioning for them to take their seats and swing into business.


    “The CEO won’t be able to make it to the meeting as she has something important to attend to. In her absence, I will be having the meeting with you” ire exined upon them having their seats.


    “Sure, let’s dive into the discussion of the day” Sophia replied.


    “So, what is ourpany standing to gain if we agree to have a coboration with you?’ ire asked, adjusting her sses and looking Sophia in the eye. Sophia exined all her prepared speech, with ire focused on her and nodding her head in approval as Sophia exined. Sophia took note of that and she realized she was having her way into ire’s heart steadily.


    “I love your presentation and I can see we will be gaining a lot from the coboration but we are going to be selfish as we want more than what you are willing to offer” ire said as soon as Sophia finished her presentation, her expression devoid of any emotion which got Sophia confused.


    “What do you want?” confused Sophia asked, with her heart beating fast.


    “We ran a check on you and we discovered you are the only child of the owners of Bloom Electronics. Ourpany is deliberating on venturing into Electronics soon and we believe merging with a well knownpany which has many years of experience in our proposed new line of business, will help us achieve our goals and grow our new line of business within a short period of time. We just need your father’spany to merge with ours and we will be willing to go ahead with the coboration with the Lion’s Group. If you promise to do that for us when the timees,  then we are good to go. And you need to know that you are not the only who got in touch with us concerning this coboration. Anotherdy form the Lion Group also got in touch with us but we are willing to give you an edge over her, if you do what we want. What do you say about that?” ire questioned, her words hanging in the air, expecting a response from Sophia. Sophia just sat still, not knowing what to say. She knew thedy ire had mentioned was Hiry and that if care is not taken, she would lose to Hiry.


    “I have to give them what they want if I want this coboration to fall through. This is the only way I can get to the top. It’s not as if dad will hand-over thepany to me since he knows I am not his child. I will just find a way to convince him into merging with them” Sophia had thought, determined to do what they had requested of her.


    “I am fine with that. I will just talk my dad into merging with you. He will soon be retiring and handing over thepany to me. So, do not worry about that. You will just give me a little time to find my way around that” Sophia responded to ire.


    “Sure, we will. We are not venturing into the proposed line of business now. We just want to put our ns in ce. Since you have agreed to that and promised to do what we ask of you when the timees, then we will be proceeding to getting the agreements of  both your promise and the coboration ready. You just have to wait for a few more hours for them to get the agreements ready” ire said, smiling.


    “Yes, let’s do just that” Sophia replied, beaming with joy as she realized her dream was abouting true. She wanted to stand up and express how happy she was, but she couldn’t as she had to maintain herposure. Just as ire picked up her mobile phone to call the Legal Team to proceed with the preparation of the agreements, a knock was heard on the door and in which the person who had knocked walked in after being told to do so by ire. It was the Receptionist who had weed Sophia when she came in. The Receptionist whispered something into ire’s ear which made her countenance changed. She scrolled through her phone and not afterwards, there was a surprise expression on her face, which showed she was taken aback by what she had seen.


    “Miss ire, are you fine?” Sophia, who had noticed the change in ire’s expression and how tense she looked asked, looking worried.


    “Miss Sophia, you need to check the news” ire responded in a low voice, looking at her. Taking the initiative, Sophia picked up her phone and upon checking the news feed, what she saw there made her hand shivered and her phone slipped off her hand. She was covered in sweat and her legs began to tremble as she tried to process what she had seen.


    “THE BLOOM’S ELECTRONIC OWNER, STEPPED DOWN FROM HIS POSITION AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY AND HANDED OVER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE COMPANY TO HIS LONG-LOST DAUGHTER, WHOM HE REUNITED WITH RECENTLY” that was the news Sophia had seen on the news feed and the cover photo of the news was that of her dad and Hiry, shaking hands.