Sharon has rarely been to her husbands office, but she has been and so knows just where to go.

"Excuse me, Miss, but you just can't go in there." Tristan's secretary does her best to stop her.

"It's alright, he's expecting me." Sharon says not slowing down at all.

"That's his wife," Darrin says to calm the agitated secretary.

Instead of calming her this seems to alarm the secretary even more. Darrin speeds up to find out just what Tristan is doing to upset his secretary so badly.

"So, you are expecting me and still you fuck some random? Have you told her that you just gave her Chlamydia like you gave me?"

"Sharon." Tristan says through gritted teeth even as he's pulling up his pants. The unfortunate female is doing up her blouse and pulling on her underwear as fast as she can.

"Do you have the divorce papers ready with the changes I requested?"

"Yes, yes, they are right here." Tristan says through gritted teeth. He had hoped that he could talk Sharon into delaying the divorce, but after walking in on him having his afternoon delight he knows better than to even ask.

Sharon reads the document thoroughly before handing it to her brother. "Does it have everything you wish for in the settlement?" Darrin asks even as he skims through what Tristan is giving her.

"More or less, yes. Now he only needs to send the money to me like he should have during our marriage."

"I told you the money was removed from my account monthly."

"But you saw for yourself that it never made it to my account. You know damn well what happened to that money and did nothing to fix things."

"Mr. Townsend, the board meeting will start in fifteen minutes." His secretary says from the doorway.

"Thank you, Tansy. Make sure the conference room is set up appropriately."

"I have already double checked it, everything is set to go."

"Thank you Tansy." Tristan says and Tansy returns to her desk.

"She's the best secretary I've ever had."

"Hmm, have you had sex with her as well?" Sharon asks with one raised eyebrow.

"No, I don't have sex with those that work for me."

"Right." Sharon says and rolls her eyes. She heads out of the office and goes to the conference room.

"What are you doing Sharon?" Tristan asks his newly ex wife.

"I'm going to the board meeting. I am after all on the board of directors since I took over Penny's spot."

Tristan mutters under his breath as he takes the lead. He doesn't seem to notice that Darrin has followed them all and is highly amused at how his sister is dealing with Townsend.

Sharon grabs the door before it could shut in her face. Darrin reaches over and take the door and waits for her to go into the room. He takes a seat in the corner after grabbing a plate and some food. He can't wait for the show to begin. Or rather in this case to continue. Tristan doesn't even seem to understand just how badly he's out maneuvered at this time.

Slowly the other members of the Board of Directors enter. Finally someone that doesn't seem to belong enters, but he is warmly welcomed by many of the Board. Darrin watches Tristan to see his reaction when he sees the new man.

It was well worth watching. Tristan abruptly leaves off talking with the board member and rudely leaves to confront the man.

The two are near enough that Darrin is able to hear the entire conversation. "What are you doing here Farnsworth?"

"I was invited by Sharon Townsend to be a part of this meeting."

"My wife had no reason to invite you here."

Neither man had noticed that Sharon had come up behind him. "Oh, but I do, Tristan. Now it's time to start the meeting. Some of us have other things to do this day."

"You are welcome to leave any time Sharon." Tristan says through gritted teeth.

"Oh, but Tristan, love, I wouldn't dream of leaving before the meeting is over."

Just then the meeting is called to order and they all take their places, many of them still eating as they do so.

"Before any other business is brought up, I call for a vote of no confidence in Tristan Townsend as the CEO. Since he's taken over the position the stocks in the company have had a steady decline and we've had to severely cut back on many projects that should have been finished by now."

The motion is quickly seconded and the vote is taken. There is shock all around as Sharon votes with all her newly acquired stocks and not just those from Penny.

"How the hell did you get those stocks from me?" Tristan forgets himself and demands loudly in front of the entire board.

"You really do need to read the fine print. The will your father left stated quite clearly that if you divorce whoever you were married to before your twenty-eighth birthday after three or less years well up to five I guess, that the lady in question would receive half of your father's stocks in the company as compensation. You would then receive the remaining stocks permanently. Had you waited until we were married for five years you would have kept all the stocks and you would have to pay me the equivalent of said stocks in monetary value.

"The paperwork has been filed with the court and look here, the judge has already signed off on the divorce. I guess now is a good time to tell you that as well as giving me Chlamydia you also got me pregnant and you signed away all rights to said child when you signed the divorce agreement."

"You can't do that." Tristan stares at her shocked.

Darrin is having a hard time holding back his laughter at the destruction his sister is handing to Tristan.

"You have no abilities to take over this company."

"I have no intentions of controlling this company. I know my limitations better than you do, Tristan. I nominate  Mr. Jason Farnsworth to be voted back in as CEO of the company. Under his leadership the company thrived. He has assured me that his health issues are dealt with and he's kept up with things here in the company so it won't take him long to get things in order."

"I'll second that motion, but I would like to know why Mr. Darrin Northrup is sitting in on the board meeting."

Darrin waits for Sharon to give him the go ahead. "My sister, Sharon, has generously allowed me to sit in so that I can be assured that her ex is no longer head of the company. With Tristan Townsend no longer controlling the company Northup Enterprises is willing to work with you and sign a contract that will be mutually beneficial to both companies."

Sharon raises her eyebrow at that but doesn't say anything. That's the first she's heard of any of that.

Shortly the vote is taken and Farnsworth is back in control of the company. He accepts the back slaps and well wishes from the board members as he makes his way to Darrin.

As he talks to Darrin the room starts to clear out, soon it's just Darrin, Farnsworth, Tristan and Sharon remaining.

"I can't believe you did this to me, Sharon. What have I ever done to you to deserve this?" Tristan says as she moves over to him. She takes out a manila envelope from her bag. She pauses at his words and looks at him incredulously.

"You dare say that after all you've done and allowed done to me for that last three years? Take a look at my face. Your bitch of a mistress did this and you didn't give a shit." She hands him the envelope. "You've been served. By now your mistress, mother and butler have also been served. Your mistress at least will be arrested for the assault she did to me and likely for the theft of my luggage your grandmother gave to me. It's also possible that your butler will be arrested but I'm not sure on that. Have a great day, Tristan." Sharon says then smiling laughs as she walks away.

For the first time in three years she feels free and happy. She just wishes that Shaun could have been here to see her. She still misses him terribly.

She makes her way to the security room and requests the video of the conference room from shortly before the meeting to the time she left. When she sees Tristan in real time picking a fight with Darrin she sends in security to stop the fight.

Security doesn't get there in time and Tristan throws a sucker punch to Darrin's gut. She can hear the grunt from the force of the hit, but Darrin doesn't go down.  Tristan shakes his hand out and complains that he thinks it might be broken.

Darrin doesn't give him much time to complain and gives him  a right hook knocking Tristan out cold.

By now the police have been called by security.

"Not him, he was merely defending himself. Arrest the one that's unconscious." Sharon tells the officers before dumping a bottle of water onto Tristan's face. Then she pulls up the video showing that Tristan was indeed the aggressor and so they arrest him after Darrin tells them that he's pressing charges.

About that time Sharon gets a text telling her that both Honey and Angelina are arrested. She starts laughing. "Well, Tristan, I guess you'll be seeing your mother and Angelina at the station as you are being processed. They too are arrested. Angelina for her attack and theft earlier and your mother for assaulting a police officer when they arrested your mistress.

"Oh, by the way, due to the bad publicity you and your mother are causing the company I will be reducing payment from the trust to a hundred thousand a month. You and your mother will need to reform your spending habits. Have a great day. I know that I am."

"Happy sister?" Darrin asks wrapping some ice around his hand.

"The happiest I've been in years. How's your hand? You weren't supposed to hit him."

Darrin sniffs, "You should know that we don't take threats lightly. We also don't take assaults lightly. He started the fight and I made sure to end it." Darrin tells her shrugging.

"Were you serious about a contract with us?"

"Of course, if you had asked it of me rather than your ex I would have given it to you."

"Just like that?"

"Just like that." Tristan says looking at his hand and grimacing. Not broken or sprained but it does hurt.

"Why would you have done that?" Sharon asks him incredulously.

"You are my sister, if you had asked then I would have done so." Darrin says shrugging once more and shaking out his hand. Then wrapping it back up in ice he had taken from the side table.

"Just how old were you when mother left?" Sharon demands. She can't believe this man telling her that.

"I was fifteen when mother was given the ultimatum by father."

"Sperm donor, I don't recognize him as anything other. He was never in my life and wouldn't even recognize me as his." Sharon says after unwrapping the ice Darrin had wrapped around his hand. "Hmm, how are the knuckles?"

"I'm fine, it wasn't that bad. The heavy bag was harder than his chin." Darrin says with a slight chuckle.

Sharon gives a small snort at those words. "I only wish I had been the one to deck him."

"So what papers did you serve him so gleefully?"

"I'm suing him for breach of contract. I'm at the same time suing his mother for physical and mental anguish, his bitch for physical assault and battery and grand theft and lastly his butler for slavery and theft of wages."

Darrin stares at her, "Slavery? what the hell was going on in that house?"

"What didn't. You still haven't finished telling me why I should give a shit about any of you, although I don't think the others are as willing to know me since you are still the only one to bother meeting me. My story will take some time to tell as well.

"Then let me take you to dinner, this lunch meeting was a joke, nothing to fill a person up with and we can tell each other the happenings in our lives for the last decade plus." Darrin is really hoping that she'll allow him this. He truly wants to get to know his amazing sister. He's read about what she has so far accomplished and has no doubt that she will be able to soar if given the chance to do so.

He also hopes that she will be willing to give him and the others a chance to know her and if she does that she will be willing to work as their chief of security for the company. He happens to know that she can build not only kickass firewalls but that she can hack just about whatever she wants as well.

"If you really want to. I would think you would be tired of me by now. Me and my attitude."

Darrin finds himself shrugging once more. "Your attitude is no worse than mine or our brothers. Like I said you have the Northrup attitude even if you don't want to have anything to do with us."

"Very well, where do you want to eat?"

Darrin smiles delightedly at her. "The rooftop restaurant at the hotel is top notch. I think you will enjoy the food and there is plenty of privacy there."

Sharon looks out and sees the storm clouds moving in rather quickly before looking back to her brother. 

Darrin chuckles, "The rooftop restaurant is entirely encased in glass and has heaters to make sure that we'll be warm enough."

"Fine, let's go, hope they won't have a problem with the clothes I'm wearing since I'm not changing."

"You're with me, they won't say anything and if they do they'll be fired." Darrin promises her.

"Right." Sharon makes sure that he hears the doubt in that one word.

Darrin grits his teeth in anger. Just how bad had things been that she doesn't believe that he'll stick up for her?