I sighed, drinking the wine from the glass in my hands. It has been a day since the press conference. There was no news from Jack about the evidence till now. Alice had gone to her parents’ house. So I and Sarah were alone in the house since yesterday. Sarah had already gone to the company to work. Since there was nothing for me to do, I had nothing to do, so I am ‘relaxing’ in the house. My phone rang. I saw the name of the person who called me. It turned out to be the lawyer. I picked it up and said, “What is it? “ The lawyer’s voice was awkward.
After a few minutes of talk, I understood what was going on. It turned out that Carson Enterprises had sued us, the Genesis Corporation, for stealing their core projects. Gritting my teeth, I called Jack. The phone connected. When I asked him about the progress of evidence hunting, he said, “We are too close. Just a few more hours. We can definitely find the evidence. “ With an ‘alright’, I ended the call. I got up from the chair and went to the kitchen. Taking an apple from the table, I poured myself a glass of water. After drinking it, I returned to the living room . Turning on the television, I watched movies to pass the time. After some time, Jack called me. His excited voice came from the other side as soon as I picked up the call. ‘It seems like Jack has already found the evidence. ‘, I thought. And it turned out to be true. Jack said, “Brother, I’ve found the evidence. Carter’s have actually applied for a patent, and I could get the test product they submitted. It turned out that they could steal the exact game and they did some changes. But they failed to cover our codes. I could find them this quickly. They really are fools. “
When I heard this, I smiled and said, “Jack.. You know what to do next. “ Jack agreed, and the call ended. I turned on the news channel to enjoy the next thing. The host of the CNN was saying something about an actress having an affair or something. This is a natural thing for news channel. You won’t get news every day, so this is the best way to maintain their consistency. Just a minute later, the anchor was called behind the scenes, so I interrupted the show with an advertisement.
When the advertisement ended, the anchor reappeared. He had a weird smile on his face. He then said, “Viewers, there is major breaking news that we just got... “ He then created some suspense. Then he continued, “The Genesis Corporation that was said to have stolen the Virtual Reality technologies of Carter’s Enterprises has finally announced their evidence of innocence to the world. It turned out that Carter Enterprises had stolen the VR technologies of Genesis, but had failed to cover the codes, which led to the discovery. If the Genesis Corporation is to file a defamation complaint on the Carter’s Corporation, the Carter’s would turn from their prestigious position to a penniless company. We are the first news channel to show this exclusive news to you guys. Remember to d******d our official app..... “ Then the news anchor advertised the news app. I smiled and called Sarah. Her cheerful voice came from the other side. “Mike, you have seen the news, right? “ I replied with a yes. Then she chuckled and said, “How do you feel about defeating a major company? “ I smiled and said, “Just so and so. “ Sarah rolled her eyes and said, “Remember, throw a party for me. “ I chuckled and said, “Alright. I will give you a party, you would never forget. “ Then I said in a serious tone, “You know what to do next, right? “ Sarah smiled and said, “It should be about charging the defamation case on Carters, right? “ I replied, “Obviously. But remember to increase our investments for the future developments. “
She understood what I meant. In short, what I meant was to ask for billions, since Virtual Reality technologies are priceless. Even if we were to ask for billions of dollars, it would be justified. With that, the phone call ended. It was nearly evening, so I went out for a walk. After a walk, my clothes were damp from the sweat. I removed my shirt and directly went to the bathroom to bathe. After bathing, I ate my dinner, and finally went to sleep. Since I had nothing else to do. I am not a protagonist of a novel, who has always some interesting event happening with them.
The next day, I got up early, since today is again a big day. I went to the company, since today there was a meeting held with the shareholders of Carter Enterprises. Let me leave those boring details...
I reached the company and met Sarah and Jack. After talking with them for some time, I went to the conference room, where the shareholders of the Carter Enterprises were currently sitting. When I reached there, I saw that there were six people sitting. I knew two of them, James Carter and his dad Max Carter. I didn’t recognise the other four. But I maintained my polite appearance and sat down at the head of the conference table. With that, the meeting started.
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All of them tried to negotiate with me. But unfortunately for them, I had no interest in negotiating with them. With that, the meeting ended. The last task was to meet in the courtroom. Max and James came towards me. Max sneered and said, “Kid, just don’t regret about this in the future. “ I smiled and said, “Don’t worry, Uncle. I am not someone who thinks about regretting for his decisions. Solving the problems is what I believe in, not crying for the problems created by them. “ Then the father son duo left the building.
The next day was also boring like every other day. I woke up to the doorbell. Covering my ears with pillow to stop the sound of doorbell entering my ears. But there was no such luck. At last, I had to get out of the bed and go downstairs to open the door. While I was walking down, I also checked up on Sarah. I finally found out why she wasn’t there to open the door. It turned out that she wasn’t in the house. Sighing, I opened the door. And saw a familiar back outside. The person outside had just turned her back to the door, probably confused. Why hasn’t someone opened the door?That person was none other than Alice. I immediately hugged her figure from behind. Alice stiffened at first, but when she smelled a familiar smile, she smiled softly and touched my hands. I loosened my hold on her. She turned around and hugged me tightly, nestling her head in my chest. I smiled and said, “I missed you, Al. “ She rubbe
After eating, we spent some time talking with each other. It turns out that Alice’s brother is about to come home during his holidays. I know little about him. The only thing I know is that he is a General in the Army. The last time I met him was , when he was about to go to the training for army. Soon, Alice went to her room to store her new clothes that she brought in the cupboard. Naturally, we two shared the room, so she entered my room. While I sat on the couch looking at the television that was still turned on. I sighed.Then my expression became determined. I have to at least deal with all my problems before I can spend time with my family. I picked up my phone and called on a number. The call connected with a click. Jack’s voice came from the other side. “What’s up, brother? “ I asked him, “Can you find the total value of the Carters? Along with their properties, she’ll companies and every
Sarah grabbed her pillow and hugged it while crying. She cried, “Why... Why can’t I be with Brother Mike? “ She then continued crying. Although she had seen Mike and Alice kissing many times, the thing she saw today was too much for her. She couldn’t even hold her emotions for Mike. She loved him since the first time they talked. Sarah still remembered how a small girl who had lost her parents in an accident got cast out in the streets. Luckily, a kind woman took her to the orphanage, from where she was taken by Mike’s father. Although she hated everyone in Mike’s family, because they saw her as a commodity. When she reached Mike’s house, she came to know that the reason they took her in was because Mike didn’t have someone to play with.This caused the young Sarah to hate Mike even more. Because of Mike, she lost her friends in the orphanage and had to come to this place, where everything wa
Tears flowed down Sarah’s face. She rushed upstairs, back to her room. She didn’t understand the reason Mike rejected her. He loved her, so why? Was it because there was Alice, since she was Mike’s girlfriend?She wiped her tears away, since she knew what to do.Meanwhile, back to Mike. His heart was in a conflict. He didn’t want to hurt any of them, Sarah and Alice. With the conflicted heart, I went to the company; because that was the only place I could go to clear my mind. I took my car to the company. I found Jack as soon as I entered the company. He was talking with a group of lawyers, who were to fight in favour of us, in the courtroom.As soon as he saw me, he stood up and came to me. He then introduced me to those lawyers sitting in the conference hall.I sat at the head of the table, and tapped on the table and asked, “So what’s the situation of the Carters? “ Jack chu
The text was enough to clear my worries. I walked out of the room. Her text reminded me of the trip I had planned. Since it was getting dark, I returned to the kitchen, where I and Alice had our dinner. For dinner, we had rice and fish. Alice had made the dinner , so I said nothing about how sticky the rice was, nor how raw the fish was. So when she asked me, “Is the food good? “ I stuffed my mouth with rice and fish, and nodded my head furiously. I couldn’t say that the food she made was sticky and not well cooked.Seeing my nod, Alice looked at me suspiciously and took a bite of the food on her plate. She looked at me and directly spat the food on her plate. She hurriedly drank the water. Frowning at me, she said, “How come you are still eating this sh*t? “I ate another spoonful of rice and said, “This ain’t that bad.. I have eaten worse food, and yours isn’t anywhere near that leve
Taking the meat that I cut from the deer, I returned to the camp. Alice and both of our mothers were sitting around the newly built campfire. My and Alice’s dad had returned to the woods a long time ago. It was getting dark, so we cooked the meat and ate it. Then we talked with each other till midnight. The talk was all about what we all were doing nowadays. Both, mine and Alice’s fathers were proud of me for playing with Carters.I didn’t have pride in my eyes. You might think I might have. I don’t know why, but I felt in my heart; Something is wrong. But ignoring the feeling I had, I continued talking with my and Alice’s parents; And soon we retired for the day and returned to our own camps. After the uneventful night passed, morning came quickly. We got ready and started doing our own work. We had already discussed this yesterday, each of us would do the work decided yesterday.The camping wasn&rsquo
My body trembled when I saw Alice on the ground. Her body was almost pale, and the pooled blood spread on the road. Ever her clothes had turned red because of the blood. I rushed towards her, and raising her head a little, I rested it on my lap. Then I repeatedly called her, “Alice.. Alice, get up.. “ I tried everything I could do, but she didn’t wake up. Tears formed in my eyes and dripped down my eyes, streaming down my face. I brought my lips on top of her head and kissed her forehead. My tears fell on Alice’s face.A laughter echoed the road. It belonged to James. Raising my head, I looked at him with fury. Only a single sentence was on my mind. ‘ He killed Alice. ‘Even though he was also the one who killed my and Alice’s parents too; But my mind was almost blank. Only the fact that James had killed Alice remained in my mind.I stood up and rushed towards James. James looked at m
‘Maybe this is what it is to be dead. Floating around in the darkness for an infinite time. ‘, I thought. I have been floating in this darkness for some years now. You all might think, how do I know? It’s easy. If you count the seconds that you have spent, it is easy to know how much time you have spent in such places, where time cannot be perceived. Counting ain’t that hard.One minute has sixty seconds and one hour has sixty minutes. So in one hour there are three thousand six hundred seconds. And in a day, there are twenty-four hours. If you do the maths, it means Eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds a day. A year has three hundred and sixty-five days, so the number of seconds a year has been thirty-one million five hundred thirty-six thousand. And this is the seconds in a year. I have spent nearly four years in this dark world. So, you might understand the astronomical figure.‘Maybe this is the