La Mà·fia

104

GOTCHA!

Charlotte

Damn, now the day of reckoning is here. I'm not sure I can go through with it all but I know I must, to save my father's company and make sure the right people take it over. Gillion Andreo would suffer his last days here. He'd done so much to make me want to put a knife into his black heart and twist it until his black blood spat out of his mouth and stand there and watch him die.

I held my head high knowing the guys had placed security all over the damn place so they could see exactly where he was and what he was doing. I wasn't sure if I would be able to pull this off but I had to try so the scum bag wouldn't get my father's company. He had made it very clear on several occasions he wanted me and when my father gave me his company he would be standing there right by my side not only as my advisor but my husband. The thought of it made me feel sick inside. I swallowed, forcing the bile that was rising in my throat back down. I knew exactly where he would be where he always was in the transport office. He was head of imports and exports. I had been down there on occasion with my father but unfortunately, my father hadn't noticed the unhealthy stares he was giving me and his obsession with me grew day by day luckily I didn't see the whole much as I ran who we did business with. My dad was fully aware that I didn't want to

I wore my usual office attire: a pinstripe suit with a white blouse and black boots, though it's not the best blouse for this but they had told me to get as close as I could to him. I was also wearing the smallest microphone ever. It also had a microscopic camera so they could see what Gillion was up to down here. Gabe reckoned he was hiding something big and would eventually tell me what it was he thought Gillion was going to take my father down making him the new boss and owner not only of Campbell industries but of several other companies my father owned. He was my father's most trusted but he wanted me to learn the ropes so I could take over but it was something that I was never interested in.

I first met Gillion Andreo when I was a postgraduate at Oxford doing a business degree. I had promised my father I would do anything to keep his businesses going when he retired. Even if I wasn't keen on the import and export business I would run the offices whilst he got someone to run that side of it all. Gillion Andreo had worked alongside my father since his late teens. He was thirty when I had first met him and I was eighteen and beginning my degree. I remember the day that my father had introduced us like it was only yesterday.

"Gillion. I'd like you to meet my daughter Charlotte. She'll be working here when she finishes university and she'll be here to gain experience four days a week. I would like it if you show her the ropes."

"Of course, boss."

He looked at me and held his hand out. "Good morning Charlotte I'm Gillion Andreo, your father's director of imports and exports. I make sure everything coming and going out is legit and up to your father's standards."

I smile, placing my hand on his knowing it's all bullcrap. I know only too well what that side of the business entails or was the part my mother was never too happy about but she was lucky to get out while she could and me being the only heir to Campbell industries inc. I was set to take my fathers position. Which meant this ass kisser would be below me. I'm sure a man who wants to succeed will do anything to watch me fall at the first hurdle not a fucking chance pal.

He squeezes my hand and shakes it rubbing his thumb over my hand making me feel self-conscious even more so as he stares at me uncovered by the fact my father is standing right there until he coughs and the prick finally lets go of my hand. "I'll look forward to working with you Miss. Campbell." he grins and his armour is back up, letting my father he won't let him down. What a suck ass.

I was never more glad to return to uni after that day I had the not so pleasure in meeting my dads second in command. But the guys are a damn snitch. He isn't loyal to my father whatsoever. And we're going to find out who he's in cahoots with. If I have to work alongside the slimy bastard until we do. I would do anything for my Papa. He's my world, he's my everything. He brought me up as a single parent when my mother did a disappearing act and never did he once blame me for it. He knew it was to do with the fact she couldn't take being the wife of a mafia king.