Valeriu Point of View

Her eyes are given a smoky touch. Her lips are plump and painted in red, inviting the onlookers to drink in the juice.

Her long wavy hair fell freely down her waist.

If I'm not dreaming, then the little blush on her cheeks is considered makeup which she never used until now.

What's freaking terrifying is, she is wearing a gown above knee length, showing off her well-toned and muscled legs.

She only wears jeans though! What made her go through such hell right now?

She is definitely up to something. I can sense it.

How come she is transformed into a girl suddenly?

"Is she dying today?" Dan inquired dramatically with a hand on his head. "It is like she is fulfilling her last wish before dying."

"I think she is actually killing." I breathed out. She was already so gorgeous on regular basis, but the kid looks no kid after putting effort on her dressing.

That, standing right there, is a woman that came out straight from the deepest desired dream of a man.

She has been acting weird from last night. Is her makeover for me?

I observed the kid talking to the managers of the departments and addressing key issues. Unlike her usual pretending to be weak self, she has this seductive aura around her.

If it wasn't for her confusing behavior in the car on our way to the office, I would've thought she is like a woman she looks now.

She turned back a little towards my way and passed on a small alluring smile that can pull any straight man into a tornado of feelings.

This kid is out to get something big.

The whole morning, I worked with my mind filled with possible assumptions regarding her sudden change. That noon, I got a call from Dan passing on an order from the kid that she is interested in having lunch with me.

Wordlessly, I went to have lunch with her and also find out more about her change on the same note.

"Elder Cazacu, please come." She led me towards the small dining table in my – her – our office.

"Look what I prepared for you." Don't try kid, it is least bit cheerful and completely frightening.

Cheerful doesn't suit her.

Scanning the small table filled with boxes of different food arranged neatly, I could already tell that she cooked them with just one whiff.

She is an amazing cook!

Only three days with her and I already can differentiate her cooking from others just by a whiff.

I reluctantly sat on the chair beside her and let her serve the food for me on the plate. She leaned on her head on her hand and kept looking at me while I'm supposed to eat my food.

Well, that was nerve wracking.

I started to put a little by little, morsel by morsel of food inside my mouth ignoring her stare. Whenever my eyes unconsciously find her, she is found smile diabetically sweetly at me.

"May I know why you are seemingly acting different today?" I finally asked after going through the hell of laser scanning from her the whole time.

Her eyes changed their color for a second and went glazed before she answered me. "I realized I should give myself a chance."

"A chance to transform like a girl?"

"That – and a chance to find out more." That isn't perplexing at all.

Well, thanks for the affirmation kid. You are a commanding general when it comes to leading silence.

She is changing from frowning to smiling in seconds like a psychopath. One second, she has this usual frown on her face that resembles the actual her while the other, her eyes glazes over and suddenly she starts smiling sweetly like a psychopathic woman on loose whenever she looked at me.

I need to take her samples and test her mental status. She isn't normal.

"Right, finding out more is important. What exactly are we finding out?"

"Something we don't know but are interesting in knowing." Am I talking to a robot?

Why is she giving cryptic answers?

Just when I finished food on my plate, Dan rushed inside the room without even knocking. He looked baffled and hustled about something that doesn't seem like good news.

"Boss"

"Dan?" I and Veira called out in unison.

"What happened?" We asked in unison again and for a second there, Dan didn't know whom to answer.

"Those darned directors." What did they do now?

I went from somewhat enjoying Veira's duality from having a severe headache.

"Those old foxes can't sit still. What did they do now?" I shot up from the chair and looked dead into Dan's eyes seriously.

"The medicine we are going to launch; the liquid for treating paralysis; the formula got out into the hands of another company and a handful of directors are protesting against the management run by a little girl with no experience."

My hand folded into a fist when I heard that. They really know how to take what belongs to others.

I made this empire with my sweat and they just come and make problems to have it for themselves.

"Investigate clearly about –" I was cut off by the Veira who is grin wide.

She went back to being all cunning and confident after all of a sudden and winked at me as she tapped my shoulder to relax.

"I was just waiting for this news." Her words actually relaxed me in real.

I mean, at this point of time, I'm not even baffled by her sudden revelation. Somehow, I know she has something planned already.

"What do you mean? You knew about it already?" Dan exclaimed loudly in anger but Veira answered him in a cool way with a nod.

"It's Mr. Valdez who did this under the supervision of Mr. Miller."

"And where are you in this whole scheme?" I asked with a small smile. I could've even laughed out loud when the radiation of absolute confidence blinded my eyes.

Someone is paying big time! I know it already!

"I? I'm always in the bottom. Weak, vulnerable and prone to take the fall." Such a pity!

"So sad."

"Indeed."

"Dan, why don't you work on gathering all the scams Mr. Valdez did in these past years. I will handle the other matters myself."

Dan frowned at the order and looked at me for approval. I gave him a nod to work religiously on the task given by Veira.

Once Dan is out to work on the task, I raised an eyebrow at her for more explanation.

"Don't worry Elder Cazacu, I have it all set." Now, this is interesting!

I'm a type of chairperson who works directly. My defense and attack were always straight and direct but now, having a person who loves to twist things and work as if she is staging a play, I'm loving it.

I'm more like a strategist but Veira, she is more liked a wicked criminal loved by the people nonetheless.

"You knew they would attack you?"

"Of course. So, I was prepared."

"Interesting. They are quite bold to do this on your second day here."

"Bold, no. Foolish, yes. They are too impulsive. But I'm going to take my time with them."

"And your first target is?"

"Mr. Valdez."

"Not Mr. Miller?"

"Nah, we have to first cut down the limbs and paralyze the whole system before attacking the heart. Cutting out Mr. Miller's useful limbs one by one, slowly and painfully is more satisfying. Trust me."

That was devilish!

Urgh! She looked so damn hot when she said that with such devilishness. When my parents were alive, I've always seen them positive, hopeful and humble which made me like I am today.

Veira, on the other hand, is not an angel but a devil.

A devil that excites me with her actions and I love it.

"Dan will not find any evidence against them. We've already tried it before but they always covered their traces very well."

"We don't need any old evidence." I looked at her a moment when realization dawned on to me. I realized what she meant by her words.

"You are creating evidence? Forging them?" I asked and to my question she only answered with a shrug.

"That is risky. What will happen to the formula when you are bent on trapping Valdez?"

Is she not worried about the formula that is stolen? It shall be a great loss to the company if the rival company starts making the liquid.

"Formula is safe. The launch will go as planned."

"What if the rival company acts before we do? You should concentrate on getting back the formula."

She signed and held my and took me to her working desktop.She typed relentlessly on it and finally opened the main internal server of the rival company.

I blinked my eyes and checked out everything and that is indeed the confidential account of our rival company that only a few have access to.

There it is, in an encrypted folder, is the stolen formula.

I saw that only two have access to this account and one of them is Valdez.

"You hacked their confidential account?" She scoffed at me almost mockingly.

"Not hacked but created." I'm sorry, what? "I created this whole account because –"

"Because?"

"Because he leaked the formula to me."

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