Control The CEO

Prologue

Control The CEO

Prologue

❝The most shocking deal❞

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Many have wondered how I'm able to stand him, and the answer to that question is rather simple. I can't. He's obnoxious, arrogant, cocky, egotistical, annoying, childish, snobbish, spoiled and not to mention a dick. Of course no one can forget how he loves nothing more than to take anything with a large chest and big bottom to bed and then break her heart in the morning. Ace is many things and a player and a heartbreaker is one of them. None of those qualities that have been listed (with more on the list) are good qualities.

"... Why do I feel like I'm talking to myself here" My brother says and I chuckle as I roll my eyes. "What were you talking about?" I ask him with an innocent look on my face, trying to not hide the fact that I had not heard a word that he said. He sighs. "The Las Vegas deal, we've been walking about them for the past..." He trails off and looks at the clock on his phone. "Twenty-five minutes" He says. The disappointment in his eyes does not go past anyone. I smile. "You've decently been talking to yourself for the past twenty-five minutes. I lost track after you said 'Let's begin'" I tell him.

He groans and gives me a look. I know what that means. My brother, Leo has been working on this deal for months, and with his best friend and worst (according to me) human being in the world, Ace is with him on this deal. And my brother somehow managed to get me tangled into a deal that barely has anything to do with me at all. To this day I still have no clue how he was able to get me into the mix or how I even agreed to this in the first place, but family is important so.

I sigh. "All right, just send me the documents, I'll look over them when I can" I tell him. He gives me a small smile and then takes my hand. "Thank you, that means a lot. However, in the future, can you be present here with me and not in your head?" He asks me. Slightly I smile. "Fine" I tell him. "I can't promise. You know how my mind works" I say and he rolls his eyes. Still holding my hand he takes the other one and holds them both.

"I know" He says. Since I was born I would get lost in my own mind, the thoughts in my head would pull me in and I would be in another world, in a trance of some sort. I do see a therapist every week for it, and I do take some medication for it. But, other than that this doesn't really impact my life. I'm all right, and my life is all right. I do however get lost sometimes, lost in my life and lost in life sometimes.

Mostly the reason for this is because I was born with anxiety and since I was a child, stress has been something that I've had to live with. It's something that I know how to deal with, and I can live with it. "I need to go, but I will be back to make dinner" He says. Leo let's go of my hand and stands up from the couch and looks down on me. "What will you be making?" I ask him. He winks at me. "You'll see" He says and then turns around to face me. "And don't even think about checking the fridge, I will take care of the groceries after work" He tells me.

He then leaves but not before I get the chance to shout at him. "Yeah, after work" I call after him in a mocking tone. Because both of us know that he gets off from work when the work is done, not sooner nor later. Leo runs a company. He's sort of an important power and the boss, the CEO of a really large Hotel chain. It was actually our parents that owned the Hotel chain, they were going to hand it to me, but I refused. I'm older than Leo, about ten minutes but still older.

And because I am older they were going to hand it to me. But, I refused it because I knew that I would not be the right person of this job. Still today I stick to that choice. And besides, Leo loves working in the company. He loves it, and he loves nothing more than to talk endlessly about it and talk about how he and Ace are working together. Ace owns a restaurant chain, it's a really big hit. And both of them have connected through food, as both of them love cooking.

I sigh, as I stand up from the cough. The apartment that Leo and I share isn't big and neither is it small. It's home and I love it. We're loaded with money and still we live in an apartment with one small kitchen, a living room, and two bedrooms, one bathroom and a spare storage room. We like it here and while we live together, we don't want it to change. I pick up my phone and open an email that Leo sent me and read through the documents that he sent.

It's not all of them, just a half I think. Something about Las Vegas and opening up a Hotel there along with one of Ace's restaurants. A collaboration of some sort. I walk around the apartment, pacing as I read through them. Nibbling on my thumb's fingernail while I do so as I read through it. But, it is not until I read one of the things in the fine print that I freeze. My mouth drops open as I read that same sentence over and over and over again. 'Miss Davina Lily Jackson will be taken out of the care from her fraternal twin brother, Mr. Leonardo Tom Jackson, and into the care of Mr. Ace Stone'.