Chapter 25: Board Meeting

Soon Sofia and Liam also went to sleep after their long banter.

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You can say it was quite a sleepy morning. All four of them were still sleeping in their rooms.

Maya's phone had been ringing for a while

now but she was just ignoring it. Aiden finally thought that he should inform the caller not to disturb Maya anymore and got up.

"It is only half past eight... Who is her calling in such a rush this morning?"

Aiden picked up the cell phone which was kept at the side-table and had a good look at the name of the person calling. "Lucas.... What does this weasel want now!?"

Seeing that it was Lucas, Aiden did not answer and rejected the call. He was about to go back to his bed when Maya's phone started ringing again. He saw that Maya who was in her dreamland until now was about to get up and quickly picked up her phone and said sternly, "Maya is sleeping right now, please do not disturb her. She will call you back if necessary." Saying that, Aiden who was planning to sleep a bit more earlier decided not to.

He followed the same routine he did yesterday, it was just that instead of writing a card and leaving, he was present there himself today.

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On the other side Lucas, who had just heard a man's voice from Maya's phone was feeling that his head was about to blow up from being so humiliated. He had called an emergency board meeting this morning for their company, he wanted to save as much as possible; before Maya realizes about everything he had done.

Therefore when he had called Maya, he was in the meeting room, not all the members were present, just a few of them and some helpers who were keeping water bottles for the executives. This meeting was called in a rush and that is why nothing was prepared beforehand.

Although Lucas's phone was not on speaker, as the room was very quiet they could all make out that it was a man's voice. And after seeing Lucas's reaction of gripping his phone hard and looking angry they all could make out that something was wrong between the couple.

Few of the board members had an understanding of why this meeting was called now and started to communicate through their phone messages.

'It seems that there is something wrong between them, we should start taking sides, if you know what I mean.' Someone said in their message.

'Currently, I think that maybe be should we side with Mr. Martin? After all I think he is the one giving us the most benefits. I think all of us had got that message yesterday, right?' This particular member was already sold out to Lucas. Lucas had put him and a few more members in charge of of turning everyone to his side.

'Yes. I agree with you. Mr. Martin is giving us a lot of benefits.' Somebody else supported it as well.

This beauty and entertainment company was founded by Maya and Lucas from the scratch. Since the beginning, Maya had a strict and firm attitude towards these people, who were very older than her, looked as if she had inherited that from her father. But Lucas would always used to fawn over these people. It seemed as if he had always been prepared for this day.

During this short chat that the board members had almost all of them were taken in by Lucas. Anyways, they never liked the inexperienced girl always acting superior to them... it was time to show her what they were capable of.

Still some members were clever enough to not say anything during this time. They knew that Maya was a well capable lady. It was only because of her excellent business skills that their company was so successful in only a short span of time. If she could make this company, she could also break it, not to mention her powerful family background, Lucas was nothing compared to her.

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The word of the short incident of Lucas calling Maya, and a man picking her phone up was soon spread throughout the company. It had changed into many versions. Maya had become a cheater in almost everyone's eyes and Lucas was a pitiful man who got cheated on.

Ashley also entered the company. Some gossipers came to her telling her about what had happened in the meeting even be for it had started.

"But there is no board meeting scheduled today! Why was I not informed of anything!?" Ashley checked the new meeting notice and realized that the meeting would start by 9:45. It is about 9:15 already!! Where is Maya?"

Ashely then called Maya but no one picked up her phone.....