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Capítulo 2: Chapter 2

  Lana Castroff

  "Ms. Castroff, there's a little bit of a problem." My secretary said as I was busy checking files. I turned to her and I got up from my seat immediately.

  "What is it?" I asked as we walked out from my office room.

  "There's a man by the name of Phoenix Sterling, he did have an-" I stopped when I heard his name loud and clear from my secretary.

  "Where is he?" I asked my secretary.

  "He's in the blue meeting room." She said and I gestured to her to stay here. I made my way towards the blue meeting room that happened to be at the end of the hallway.

  I opened the door and when he saw me, his lips turned into a smile. He didn't even bother to get up from his seat to greet me. "I was expecting to see your father but I guess talking to his daughter is even better." He said arrogantly.

  "What's wrong?" I asked as I sat on the chair across him.

  "I'm suing your company." He said in a serious tone and I looked at him disbelief.

  "Sue my company? What? We didn't do-" Before I could complete my sentence, he put a file in front of me and asked me to read it. I opened the file and my eyes couldn't believe this. I looked up to Phoenix and he smirked at me.

  "I was quite nice for not exposing it to the public.. just yet but I'm guess your father didn't tell you about this huh?" He asked and I looked down to the files again.

  "Or maybe.. your father is currently running away right now as we speak." He added and I got up from my seat slamming the file to the desk angrily.

  "Are you doing this because of what happened 3 months ago?" I asked, looking at him raging in anger.

  "Ms. Castroff, I'm not that immature. I'm here because of that." He pointed at the file and I closed my eyes trying to breath properly.

  "I will have my lawyers come here tomorrow and we can talk about settlements." He said as he got up from his seat. I was speechless because a lot of things and my mind was trying to process everything slowly.

  "Don't worry, I won't make you.. a commoner." He said before he walked out from the room. I sat down and my eyes just blankly stared at the ceiling. I immediately took out my phone from my pocket.

  I dialed my father's number and he didn't pick up. I kept calling and calling but he didn't pick up. I immediately walked back to my office and asked my secretary to call my father's secretary. I need to have a word with her.

  "Ms. Castroff." I gestured her to sit down on the sofa and I walked towards her. I slammed the file that Phoenix gave me earlier to the table in front of her.

  "His company is suing us because his staff got an infection from our product! What exactly happened?" I asked and she kept looking down to the ground not knowing what to say.

  "Where's my father? Is he running away?" I asked angrily.

  "I don't know, Ms. Castroff. He told me that he won't be coming to work for about 4 days or maybe more." Shit!

  "Did he make any changes for that product? Because there's no way that Phoenix Sterling's employees will get such infection!" I was pissed and I wanted an explanation from my father as soon as possible.

  "Your father did purchase some products that are more cheaper than the original products. I remembered he was mentioning to me about something scented but that's all, Ms. Castroff." She said in a sad tone.

  "You both take me to the factory now!" I hissed. I grabbed my phone in the table and the files from Phoenix. My secretary drove me to the factory and my father's secretary tried to read through the lawsuit that Phoenix gave me.

  "I want you to give me Phoenix Sterling's phone number." I told Vira, my father's secretary. She immediately opened her work phone and sent his phone number to me. I saved it in my phone as we arrived at my soap factory.

  I got up and walked inside to ask the employees there for the changes that my father made recently. They brought me to the gallons and gallons of new scented oil for our beauty product.

  "I want details on this product and what's the new thing that my father changed?" I asked and the led me to the coloring product that we used.

  "Ms. Castroff, we checked the production of products that Mr. Sterling's receive." My secretary said as she gave me her iPad. Apparently the products that Phoenix received was made around 2 weeks ago. He received the products about a week ago. So my father already changed everything.

  "I want you to pull back all the products that we produced with the new ingredients. I want the test team to do another test on it." I said as I gave the iPad back to my secretary.

  "Yes, Ms. Castroff."

  "I want every product already here by tomorrow and check all the people that purchase our product recently if they have any infection like Phoenix Sterling's employees got." I said with a hint of an angry tone.

  My employees quickly do as they told and I dialed Phoenix's number. I walked out from the factory hoping that he would answer my call.

  "Hello."

  "Mr. Sterling, this is Lana Castroff." I introduced myself.

  "You want me to cancel the lawsuit?" He asked in a cold tone. I rolled my eyes and completely hated this man.

  "No, but I would like to send some of my employees to check on your employees' condition. We want to know the cause of it." I said nicely or maybe trying to be nice.

  "Very well, you can come to the West Hospital tomorrow at 1 o'clock."

  "Okay, thankyou." I ended the call and sighed.


Capítulo 3: Chapter 3

  Phoenix Sterling

  "Who?" Angelo asked as he gave me a glass of white wine for us to enjoy. I put my phone on the table and sighed.

  "Lana Castroff." I answered as I swirled my glass of wine.

  "You filed a lawsuit on her company?" He asked me in a curious tone and I nodded.

  "You know what happened so I have to take actions." I said and took a sip of the white wine. "I wonder why didn't you just expose her to the public. You don't seem nice to her."

  "She's the one who called Julie a commoner. I guess she just always hates them." I said and Angelo chuckled.

  "I don't get it either why you're so nice to Julie. I didn't like her when I first laid my eyes on her." I raised my eyebrows looking at him.

  "At least you're not being rude to her."

  "I never thought Castroff Beauty products will have this incident because they're one of the top brands out there for beauty. Somehow it's hard to believe that they have something going on in their products." Angelo said and I glared at him.

  "They do have one of the best brands, that's why I bought it but it turns out like this." I hissed.

  "Hello dicks." I turned to see Adrian walking into the room and he sat down on the sofa beside me. Sometimes I really doubt that this man is a Prince of Denmark. The youngest of all of them too. He's the immature one and will always troll around.

  "Chance and Dean are out of town and I'm bored." He said as he grabbed a new glass of wine on the table pouring himself some.

  "How's the airlines going?" I asked him and he gave me a thumbs up.

  "It was doing okay. We just need to buy more airplanes to expand the business." He said as he sipped his wine.

  "But I thought you already bought 13 airplanes last month." Angelo asked and he shooked his head.

  "I need a bigger airplane for international flights." He said as he put his glass on the table.

  "Interesting." Angelo said, chuckling.

  "How about you? Suing Castroff?" Adrian smirked looking at me.

  "Yeah, you know why." I said simply and Adrian gave me a cheeky look. We all know that he's up for something with that look.

  "Lana Castroff is something and she's the type of woman that I will date or maybe have fun with. She's hot." He smirked looking at me and I shook my head. Adrian is a playboy, just like his brother Carter back in the days before he settled down.

  "She mocked Julie, a commoner." Angelo said and Adrian laughed.

  "That's hot." Adrian said and I shook my head disapprovingly. Adrian suddenly leaned his body forward to me.

  "If you don't want to go after Lana, I'll be.. happy to have her." Adrian said and I raised my eyebrows.

  "Why do you ask me? I don't like her so feel free to.. have her." I said and sipped my white wine.

  "She's your type, Phoenix. I'm quite surprise that you haven't make a move on her yet but I guess it's my time to shine!" Adrian smirked and laid back to the sofa again.

  After that, I went back to the office to continue to work. I have a lot of things to do and I have to go to Spain next week for an important meeting. I guess tomorrow, I'll be seeing Lana again for her to investigate what's wrong with her products.

  The next day..

  I got out from my car and found Lana already standing there in front of the hospital entrance with her team. I told my secretary to showed her team in. I walked towards her and she gave me a polite smile.

  "Mr. Sterling."

  "Ms. Castroff." I gave her a nod. My secretary led her team into the hospital and we both were left alone.

  "Today, we took all the products that might have an unidentified ingredients so people won't get hurt." She said and I was quite surprised to see her pretty professional despite our encounter yesterday.

  "I want to personally apologize to you." She said as her eyes met mine. Another surprise of her apologizing, I thought she won't apologize judging by her attitude on Julie.

  "My team met your lawyers earlier this morning and I was hoping if you could give us time to investigate a little bit more."

  "Very well, I will give you time to investigate and you know that I'm not dropping the lawsuit. I will never." I said seriously especially on my last sentence.

  "I understand completely. Our company should have been more careful and we will discuss about the settlement sooner after we investigate further." She said without taking her beautiful blue ocean eyes off me. She was very professional and I really like her work ethic.

  "For what I know, it contains hydrochloric acid." I stated and her eyes widened.

  "Acid? That's impossible!" She gasped and I can see that she didn't see this coming at all.

  "Why would it contain that? Shit!" She immediately walked into the hospital. "Take me to your employees, please." She turned to me and I nodded before leading her towards my 7 employees that's currently hospitalized.

  She walked into the first room and she gasped seeing the burn on my employee's hand. Lana introduced herself to her and she immediately apologized. She didn't even think twice to apologize and she even told my employee that she will take care of all of her hospital bills and she will give her money for the damage.

  And again.. I was surprised.

  She ended up saying the same thing to the other 6 employees. She felt so bad and never stop apologizing to the victim of her products. As soon as she's done apologizing to every single victims, she called someone and asked them to check on the dangerous chemical on her products that she pulled back to her factory.

  She walked back and forth in her highheels and not to mention that she was wearing a blazer dress that made her look really professional. She has her hair on a ponytail making her look neat and intimidating. Her red lipstick was like a statement to people that you shouldn't mess with her.

  After she finished her phone call, she walked towards me. "We're currently investigating if there's a possibility of acid being inserted in our products and I want to apologize one more time for all the damages. We will contact you further more for the settlement." She said with her eyes looking straight to mine.

  "Very well."

  "I will pay all the hospital bills and give them more money for the damages that they got. I promise you that this-" She stopped when we both clearly can hear her stomach grumbling.

  "I.. I promise you that this won't happen again in the future." She continued as she avoided my eyes completely embarrass.

  "I'm assuming you haven't eat lunch, wanna have lunch together?" I asked and she turned to me blinking her eyes multiple times like I was possessed.

  "Sure."


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