Ewan didn’t know how he had stayed so long without seeing the monster that was Fiona. He guessed that was what was bound to happen when you trust soone blindly - you get the rug pulled out from under your feet.
Well, no more of that theatrics; he had learned a lot that would last him a long ti.
"Sure, sure, Fiona. Whatever it is you say..." He spoke nonchalantly, glancing at a side of the room, treating Fiona like a speck of dust on an abandoned armchair.
Fiona jerked back as if slapped; she was still getting used to this kind of Ewan. The Ewan that didn’t bow to her demands, or try to make her happy; a far cry from the old Ewan that was ready to sacrifice anything and anyone to keep her reputation pristine clean.
Fiona missed that Ewan so much that she could cry. She so wished Athena never existed; her good life would have been left untouched.
"You’re ungrateful, Ewan," She finally spat, her voice laced with venom, imnsely irritated and frustrated. "Rember who had been with you, who had taken you in when no one else had thought to do so for the orphaned child of the Giacotti family? You..."
"Let this lie, Fiona. Aren’t you tired of roleplaying already? Personally, I think you should have studied that, instead of giving your body to all and sundry while you tried to understand business in school." Ewan cut in sharply, still not looking at Fiona, his voice an epito of boredom.
But Fiona was desperate to hear an emotion in that voice, so she kept on. "Ewan..."
Ewan finally looked at her, and the intensity she saw burning in his beautiful eyes stopped her short instantly.
"We might be bound to the rules in the council," He said, his voice low and nacing. "But don’t think for a mont that I won’t bend the rules just for a little mont, to get rid of a stinking flea. Do you think the elders would mind if I happened to even a score right here and now, if I open up your wardrobe of sins?"
"You...wouldn’t...dare..." Fiona stuttered, losing face.
"Try ," Ewan stated calmly, his voice icy cold.
The shareholders, who hadn’t been aware of the council eting, now had an inkling of what was going on, seeing that they each had councils operating in their local towns for resolving special issues.
It would an that a special issue had co up involving Ewan, his fiancée, and Athena. Madam Ruby thought, tapping her feet slowly on the floor, excitent threatening to consu her whole. She needed to get the gist of this, no matter what!
Alfonso, seeing the realization spreading amongst the earlier ignorant shareholders, cussed ntally at the foolishness of his daughter; the shaless girl was always causing more trouble than usual.
He pinched her lap with more force than he had intended, causing Fiona to scream in irritation. "Dad, what the hell!" She paused, however, seeing that she was the center of attention - hostile attention.
She reverted her eyes to Ewan, who wasn’t even looking at her. He was rather looking at Athena, whom she could see now had her eyes shut and head tilted at an odd angle on her chair, as if the latter was sleeping.
But Fiona knew better. Athena would never be sleeping; the bitch was just ignoring her existence as usual, enhancing the ideology in everyone’s mind that she wasn’t worth a di.
Fiona gritted her teeth, then inhaled calmly, as if realizing sothing. She couldn’t go on like this, reacting like a banshee to everything that was happening.
Maybe, she could borrow a leaf from Athena, pretend to be in control at all tis, and maybe she’ll actually be in control.
But before that...
She placed her hands on the table, gripped it tightly, and began to shake her head maniacally.
Murmurings broke amidst the shocked shareholders as they wondered what was happening. They looked at Ewan, and then Athena for answers.
Athena, who had opened her eyes when her ears picked up on the murmurs, was thoroughly amused. What now?
"If this eting is over, then I would love to leave..." She finally said, pushing back her chair. "As you all know, I have patients to attend to. It was nice..."
Athena paused, raising a brow, when Fiona stopped shaking like a mad woman.
She watched as Fiona opened her eyes as if waking from a trance and wondered if the latter was going to start giving prophecies soon.
"Apologies, everyone... Constance can be a pain in the butt. She’s quite vindictive,"
Athena bit back a laugh at Fiona’s words. Really? She shook her head. The lady never ran out of jokes!
The shareholders who hadn’t been aware of this were all the more confused.
Ewan sighed tiredly. "It’s okay, everyone. Fiona here is suffering from so sort of ntal disorder. But that will be treated soon enough..."
"Was it why you broke up with her?" Madam Ruby asked, before she could help herself, shrinking when she realized the implication of her question.
"Not at all," Ewan replied. "This result ca after. You should do your due diligence before asking irrelevant questions."
Ewan paused and reverted his attention to the others. "Since the eting has been concluded, and the traitors outed from our midst, let’s all head out to our respective places. I have to take Fiona to where she will be treated, away from her father’s influence."
Alfonso jerked with a frown. Ewan was painting him as the sole doer of these evils? Did it an that he believed Fiona’s act now?
Alfonso sighed wearily when he discovered that he didn’t really care for all that. He only cared about his wife, who had left without saying goodbye, who had given her shares to Athena.
Alfonso couldn’t believe the turn of events. He took his lips in. Maybe, if Morgan rescued them, if the brat did this thing right today, maybe he could pay a visit to his wife, wherever she was, and have a word with her.
Thinking of this made him feel better, next to making sure Athena got what she deserved for absolutely wrecking his life and family to the finish.
anwhile, Fiona was happy. Even though Morgan would rescue her today, she was happy that at least Ewan didn’t see her as a completely bad person, just one with a disorder. She could work with that in the future. The thought put a smile on her lips.
Athena, seeing this, shook her head in disappointnt. It seed Ewan still wasn’t in the clear of Fiona’s plays, and here she was thinking he finally had so sense!
She looked at Ethan and gave him a curt nod.
Ethan nodded the sa, and then raised his hand. "Please, before we all go to our various companies, I have an announcent to make..."
All attention, for a minute, was stripped from the Adams family and placed on the whiz businessman, who had suddenly appeared in the country months ago and began to make waves in the economy without even settling in.
"And what is the matter, Mr. Ethan?" Ewan asked, clasping his hands on the table calmly.
Beside him, Sandro was hoping that Ethan wasn’t about to announce his exit from the company, after seeing the drama that had taken place in this room.
"Well, I will be leaving the city soon," Ethan said. "I have another investnt to look into, so issues ca up..."
Ewan nodded. He had expected this, having researched Ethan, a wanderer in the business field.
"What about your shares, and the companies you have acquired here? Do you want us to buy them?" Ewan asked.
"Not at all," Ethan replied, bringing out a file from his laptop bag. "They already belong to soone else. I’m just here to make sure there’s a seamless handover."
"And who might that be?" Ewan asked, both for himself and the other shareholders.
"Athena," Ethan said, his voice matter-of-fact. "I was just holding it for her, after all."
For a full minute, silence descended in the room, as people were too shocked beyond words.
Holding for her? What did that even an? They wondered alike, darting glances at Athena, who seed not to be moved.
Even her group, except for Aiden, were shocked. It was obvious that the only one who was aware of this move was just Athena and her bodyguard.
"Mr. Ethan Patterson, what are you talking about? What do you an by ’holding the shares for her, after all?’" Ewan asked, calmly, aware of the ice creeping into his voice.
What was with these people playing around with him?!
Ethan smiled and pushed the docunt toward Ewan.
Sandro stood up, stretched his hand, took the docunt, and gave it to Ewan, only glimpsing at the heading of the docunt.
"Request to handover shares to Athena Caddels"
It was nothing threatening. He thought.
Not until Ethan’s next words.
"Mr. Ewan Giacotti, what I ant by my words earlier is that..." A pause. "I’m only a faithful employee of Doctor Athena Caddels."
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