Just the beginning

"Richard Cartwright." Amara muttered as her eyes dilated in shock.

"Since you know me, I guess there's no need for any introduction. Now, won't you usher me in?" He asked. She quickly hid the pocket knife in her back pocket.

She nodded her head and opened the door wider for him to enter. Richard entered the room and his secretary followed closely behind him. He stared around the shabby room, trying so hard to hide his disgust.

"Don't mind the place, it's only temporary." Anara said with a nervous chuckle like she had noticed his expression.

"Have a seat." She offered. He was hesitant for a moment but nodded and sat down on the chair she offered.

"I wasn't expecting someone of your caliber to meet with me." She muttered nervously.

"Yeah.. me neither." He whispered without thinking but luckily, Amara didn't hear what he had said.

"So, why did you want to see me?" She asked.

"I have been watching you for a while now.."

"Why's that? We don't even know each other." Amara uttered, cutting him off.

"But you know me." He answered.

"Not that. We aren't close enough to be stalking each other. Why were you watching me?"

"I was hoping we would become patners." He answered making Amara really surprised.

"Why didn't you meet up with me earlier?"

"I didn't think you would agree to my request but after what had happened between you and your step daughter today, I knew you would never reject my offer." He answered.

Amara stared at him silently, realizing that he had really been watching her every move. She thought about his offer and found it too good to be true. Why would he of all people want to help her? Someone he barely knew.

"And how would our patnership benefit me?" She asked.

"I've noticed that you're at the verge of loosing everything at the Dyson's corp. With my money and resources, you will be able to rally most of the shareholders to your side..."

"... and that way, I'll be appointed as the new CEO of the company." Amara added ss her eyes glinted in happiness.

"Yes.. now you get it.."

"But... wait.." Amara cut him off again, making him frown in annoyance but she didn't notice it.

"Why would you want to spend so much to help me?" Amara asked.

"That's a really good question. Now, let me ask you; what do you think you can offer me in return for my expensive help?" He asked back.

Amara smiled as she finally understood what he wanted; " You want the company’s key technology and resources." She answered.

"Bravo.." Richard complimented as he clapped his hands for a brief moment.

"As expected, you are smart. It won't be a problem working with you." He praised.

"So, from now on.. we're patners?" Amara asked.

"Yeah.. patners." Richard answered as he stretched his hand for am handshake while Amara didn't waste any time in receiving it.

From that moment, the alliance between Richard and Amara began. As promised, Richard released money so Amara could used to bribe the shareholders.

Even after offering millions of dollars, not all the shareholders joined forces with her like she had expected. Most of them were loyal to Hector so it wasn't really easy for her to bribe them.

She could only rally smaller shareholders who hated Hector to her quest. Richard on the other hand, was happy with the way things were going. His plans were finally coming to reality.

He didn't only approach Amara to get resources from the company, he wanted to retaliate at Catherine through her for how she humiliated him before.

Hurting Catherine also means hurting Nicholas so he was killing three birds with one stone. He thought of how the Dyson's corp key technology would help him regain his footing in the Carthwright Group and that made him happy.

While they joined arms, what they weren't aware of was that their actions had caught Catherine's attention. Catherine found out from one of her father's most loyal shareholders that Amara met up with him and tried to bribe him to her quest.

She realised that if Amara had gone to someone like that, then she must have reached almost all the shareholders and even bought more shares secretly. When she heard of the amount Amara wanted to use to bribe him, her suspicions increased.

She had made sure to freeze all of Amara's bank accounts so she couldn't have such amount of money at her disposal. She decided to investigate further and as expected, she found out about her conspiracy with Richard.

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◆Dyson's corp◆

I was at a meeting with all of the shareholders in the company. Just as I was about to give my speech, the door to the large hall was pushed open from the outside and Amara barged in.

She was dressed in a very expensive looking suit with expensive jewelries and shoes to match. Even the bag she was carrying screamed 'wealth' and her makeup was made to the top. She was really prepared for this battle.

"What are you doing here?" I asked like I didn't know what she was here for.

"What else other than to take back the position you stole from me." She answered.

"Everyone.." She called out, drawing the attention of all the shareholders to her.

".... I'm so sorry for cutting in like this but I just couldn't hold back anymore. You all know me as the wife of Hector Dyson so I also have a right to take the position as a CEO..."

She continued her speech by listing out all of her contributions to the conpany over the years she had spent in it and she also criticized me.

"The woman you've all chosen to lead you initially left the company for two years under she excuse that she had just gotten married. I was newly married too when I took a post in this company but that didn't stop me."

When she said that, most of the shareholders nodded in agreement and they started murmuring amongst each other.

"I took her place for those two years that she was gone and made this company what it is today so you don't expect me to back down when she doesn't even have the amount of shares that I do." She added and the shareholders agreed with her.

"She might not have the amount of shares that you have but with just a few months, she has proven to be more worthy of the position than you would ever be." One of the biggest shareholders uttered making the rest go silent immediately.

"Also, it was Hector's wish to make her the head, not you." Another added.

"What?? No. Hector would never do something like that without telling me." Amara argued.

I signalled at my secretary and she opened the door revealing the company's lawyer. He gave the documents with him to Amara and she read it with a huge frown in her face. She probably wasn't expecting that dad would make arrangements for me to take over if something were to happen to him.

"I can't believe this. Such a paper can easily be forged. I'm sure you paid the company's lawyer to do this for you." She said as she tore the documents into pieces.

"It's funny you would mention that.." I turned on the monitor in the room and clicked on the remote, revealing some pictures.

"What's that?" One of the shareholders asked.

"These are evidences of Amara bribing almost half of the shareholders here to supoort her claim." I stated, making the entire room go into a state of shock.

Amara's jaw dropped as she stared at the pictures in shock as she wasn't expecting me to know about something like this. I smiled as I watch her being uneasy and dumbstruck; this is only the beginning.