"My father..." Dakota paused momentarily, staring at various photos of a man who looked to be in his mid-thirties, along with a small child who was himself and a woman who was the same age as the adult man.Dakota is currently at the O'Connor family home. James takes him to see traces of his father in a room that once belonged to him.Dakota's eyes stare blankly. All this time, he did not know the whereabouts of his parents until he concluded that he was an orphan who did not have parents, and it turned out to be true."What kind of person is he, sir?" Dakota turned to James.James smiled sadly as he heard Dakota calling him 'mister' instead of 'grandpa.' James knew it wasn't easy to accept a sudden change.He looked at Dakota warmly. "Your father was a warm man." His eyes seemed to reminisce those times with longing. "He was the opposite of your attitude. Your father was cheerful, friendly, and kind. Because of that attitude, people looked down on him, thinking he wasn't fit to lead.
"There's something I want to tell you about your current status Dakota." James looked at her seriously.Dakota listened and waited for the man to finish his words. He was still sitting in the house quietly and had not moved since yesterday because James asked him to stay overnight because it was quite late when they finished chatting.The man folded his hands together and placed them on his knees, which he sat resting on. "I had intended to announce it a little longer because thinking about one thing and another, I was worried about your safety, so I thought I needed to make preparations in advance." The man seemed a bit heavy-hearted at what he said.Dakota could understand what the man meant, and he nodded slowly. "I see your point, Mr. James." He smiled in response.He knew the lives of heiresses were hard, there was so much pressure and often being targeted from different directions just because they didn't like it, and he learned that from stories about his father.Dakota didn't
"You take it easy, Anna, nothing will go wrong with the company, us." Dakota calmed her down.Actually, it was never part of his mind when he started the company because he didn't think that there would be big companies that would be disturbed by them while they were still in the process of growing, even though they were already engaged in everything big.What Dakota anticipated were smaller companies that might attack them, but instead, their company was threatened by a company that was bigger and more recognised than theirs.Anna's breathing sounded ragged at the other end. "How can I calm down, Dek?" she said, somewhat frustrated.Company matters were obviously something Anna was very concerned about, as most of the Company was controlled by her while Dakota only took care of the essential parts. She felt like she bore more responsibility than Dakota, and that burden made her quite depressed as she had yet to see a resolution; her head could not find a solution other than to step b
"Who exactly is this man? Why did he make Mr. John suddenly retreat? He was so eager to finish him off." The stranger's mind stares at Dakota with confused eyes while his heart beats violently in shock after receiving a call from his master earlier."Didn't you hear? I told you to get out of there." Dakota looked at him coldly.The man paused, giving him an annoyed look. He didn't answer and quickly got out of there, walking towards his car.Dakota rested his hand on the frame of him half-open car door. "You have to be careful, because if you take the wrong action, you'll be in big trouble," Dakota said, having read what the man was thinking.The stranger grunted, ignoring Dakota's words, and got into his car and drove away.Dakota averted his gaze from them, then raised his hand and called for the guard to come over to him.The two men who were guarding earlier immediately came to him and stood nearby. Dakota pointed at the strange man's car, and since the man had only moved out of t
"What happened?" Dakota woke up panting from his sleep. He had just seen something bad in his dream.Dakota turned his head towards the window of his room and saw the sun was still slowly moving up at the other end. He quickly got out of bed and looked for his phone.His finger tapped a contact on his call. "Are you okay, sir, James?" asked Dakota once their call was connected."Yes, I'm fine, Dakota." The voice answered calmly and a little cheerfully.On the other hand, Dakota looked upset. He wasn't calm at all, his face was hardened and slightly sweaty even though it was early morning and the air was still quite cold.He looked out the window again. "Do you have any outside events today?""Yes, I'm going out of town for a few days." The man replied.It was him!Dakota froze in place. "I'll be coming with you, so can it wait until I get there?" He quickly walked towards the bathroom.James was silent momentarily, confused at Dakota's attitude that suddenly sounded frantic and urgent
"Who is he?" The bespectacled man's mind stares towards the entrance as Dakota and James arrive. "Why did he get in with Mr. James? Shouldn't the one accompanying Mr. James be Ray? Where is that man?" he watched them silently.The man sitting on the left side in the tartan-patterned vest stared casually. "Did Mr. James change his servant? But that's not possible. Ray is a servant of great ability, so he has no reason to be replaced unless Ray resigns. But even that is unlikely." He straightened his seat as James was about to arrive."Welcome, sir James. How are you today?" The man who sat closest to him and looked the oldest of all except James greeted him politely and kindly.James took a quick glance at him, then looked away. "Enough with the pleasantries. There are more important things to discuss than asking how I am." He replied curtly.Dakota stood beside James, as someone had already pulled up a chair in the main section for James.James opened the paper report on the table, hi
"Stop talking nonsense. You obviously don't know anything." He gave Dakota a dismissive look.The man disliked Dakota from the start. Ever since Dakota came in, the man had a bad feeling but felt uneasy and agitated.The man's jaw hardened, and he stared at Dakota fixedly. He was not going to be swayed and provoked by Dakota, whom he didn't even know and know the answer to. "Even for the business agreement you are talking about, the divisions and even the leaders of this company already know about it all." he snorted, with the most dismissive look on Dakota's face.He was determined to humiliate Dakota since Dakota made him the topic of conversation. The people sitting there started looking at him with doubtful glances and whispering with the people beside her.They were obviously starting to take issue with it. It was easy to create doubts and waver on trust in a company. Especially the higher-ups who of course have businesses that are not clearly exposed, they have things hidden beh
"You can see." Dakota also thrust the books into the centre of the table, drawing people's attention to him.The people who came to this place with different purposes did the same thing, looking at the book's contents.The man, wearing a tartan-patterned vest, frowned after seeing what had appeared and been written there. He found that some of the data seemed odd to what should have been written there.The man then raised his face to look at the man in black. "What is this? Why is the data written like this?" He looked at the man in surprise.The man who looked the youngest of them snorted with laughter at the sight. "He's obviously playing dirty. How could he do it like this?" The man chuckled, looking at the black-clothed man with narrowed eyes.Dakota lifted his face from the book. From what he heard the young man say, he knew that other forms of cheating were happening within the company."Asshole, does this mean that my job will end here?" The man stared frantically while mutteri