"Still nothing?" Derek asked, a little surprised a while after the call he put through to the man got picked."Nothing," Marcus admitted over the phone. "I've tried and tried but nothing seems forthcoming. I won't lie to you, it's a dead end.""I thought you have friends that are into stuff like this. Can't they help us out?"Derek was already frustrated as he asked that question. He hoped to get a better answer from his friend because that was the only way he could actually feel better to hold this conversation."And you think they didn't already try?" Marcus asked him. "Derek, I already told you that the line was like an encrypted one. It was going to take a lot to knock it down.I put in a lot of effort into knocking it down. My people too. But nothing came out of it. Just some bunch of nonsense that wasn't going to be useful."With his hand running through his hair, Derek stood up to think. He hoped to get a better flow of thoughts from that point as he did that but it seemed stan

"So, I'm not the one you're suspecting now, right?" Gina asked for reaffirmation. She wanted to be sure about where she stood before getting on further with the conversation."I wasn't necessarily suspecting you, Gina. To be honest, I was just mad that I got into that kind of situation. And maybe I did suspect you a bit. I thought you might have been working with my wife into getting something like that that can be used against me."Derek explained that to the hearing of the lady. His expression was neutral as he waited for her to understand what he just said.Gina shook her head, disappointment written on her face. "I will admit that coming onto you was a mistake. But I would never make that mistake of betraying you. I don't understand why you would think so low of me," she said while still expressing disappointment."I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking when I acted that way and that's why I already apologized."Gina says nothing to him for a while. She self reflected within that time frame

"Who is Eugene Leviathan?" Derek asked that question in such an aggressive manner that his assistant thought for a moment that he was annoyed at him.Derek was walking too fast as they both headed back to his office together. All through the meeting, his assistant had stayed outside the conference room."Eugene Leviathan?" the assistant questions him back."That's what I said.""Eugene Leviathan is a district manager—"Derek cuts him off, "I know that already. But who exactly is he other than being a manager at the Jackson and Sons Consortium?""Do you want me to provide you information on his private life?"Staring at his assistant briefly before looking ahead, he asked, "Do you have it?""I do," the assistant said almost quietly."Then give it to me.""Mr. Eugene Leviathan, from my findings, is the youngest child of the chairman of Jackson and Sons. According to reports, he became a district manager about five to six years ago and has been influential in the Consortium maintaining i

Derek was destabilized. And it was that instability that he took with him back home.From the look of things, he wasn't safe anymore. He couldn't do things willingly without actually having it at the back of his head that he was being watched by someone he didn't know.Who knows how many more pictures the person had of him. Pictures that could generate questions due to the way they looked.He went straight to the bedroom once he was at the apartment. He wasn't surprised when he found Catherine already on the bed, supposedly waiting for him to join her."Where did you go?" she asked him as he joined her on the bed with his mind still going through a lot of dilemma.Halfheartedly, he responded, "I went for a walk around the neighborhood.""I see," was what she told him before silence ensued between both of them. It was what he wanted at that point because he still had a lot that he wanted to think about.He thought about the possibility of the person watching him being one of the neighb

"Why did you ask to see us, Mr. McKay? How urgent is it that you couldn't decide to see us some other time?" the assistant manager from the other end of the table asked Derek. Even the manager himself revealed the expression of someone that didn't want to be there.However, Derek looked past that to say, "I'm sorry that this might seem like the wrong time to call for a meeting. I'm even feeling the inconvenience myself because I should be on the way home by now. But we have to thrash this out first so we can be on the safe side.""It's about the collaboration, isn't it?""It is, sir.""We already told you, Mr. McKay. That part is already over. We have made the decision to go for the deal and that's what we'll be doing.""I understand, sir. Still I have a question to ask regarding that.""What is it?""Does the company plan on being a business under the consortium? Probably be a merger company that has its control and affairs being directed by the consortium…"The question he asked now