Justice In Shadow's Eye

Chapter X: Confidential Files

- - 3rd Person's POV: - -

Upon taking a much more vivid understanding of the contents held by the folder in his hands, Cleo was shook, almost about to burst out of anger.

He took all the files with him as he stormed off of the room feeling extremely furious, his grasp of the folder almost crumpling it due to how hard he was holding it.

He had first decided to look for his older brother in the mansion, knocking on his bedroom door a couple of times, he received no response and proceeded to look for him someplace else.

As he continued to walk past the other rooms and hallways, he came to a stop outside of the dining hall.

Carefully opening the door, he had spotted Alex sitting on one of the chairs while enjoying a perfectly crafted sandwich.

"Cleo! There you are! Come sit with me!" Alex had spoke, patting the seat next to him while finishing his little snack.

Cleo took a deep breath to calm himself down, he wouldn't want to approach Alex in an intimidating way.

Cleo: "Uh.. what are you doing?"

Cleo asked in a confusing tone.

Alex: "Oh, well the chefs had prepared me a small snack since I requested it... What about you? What seems to be the problem? Y'know I could hear loud footsteps coming outside of the door just before you arrived."

Cleo ignored his last sentence and only placed the files on the table in front of him.

Alex: "What's this?"

Cleo: "I don't know.. but it seems urgent."

Alex: "Urgent?"

Alex slid his plate to the side as he carefully examined the folders and the papers inside it.

Alex: "Hm... Are these... Business proposals for father to sign? Cleo I don't think you should be touching these, these seems highly classified."

Cleo: "I know but something about the proposal seems kind of... Off."

Alex: "What do you mean?"

Cleo: "It states here that majority of the resources that needs to be used should come from father's side of the business partnership but he only has 2% of shares for whatever invention they're going to build."

Alex: "What? Why would they even offer him that small percentage of shares? Why would father even accept this proposal?"

Cleo: "He's considering it."

Alex: "Why would he?"

Cleo: "You know father has always had a gullible mind... Due to his care and passion of helping those in need, he lacks the ability to be vigilant in moments like this."

Alex: "Well we can't simply let him do that, he's basically gambling all of his hard work for this."

Cleo: "Which is why I am one step ahead of them..."

A smirk had formed on Cleo's lips.

Alex took the files to have a look once more, after a few minutes of examining it, something caught his attention.

Alex: "These files came from the "Intelli-Profien Enterprises"."

Cleo: "The what?"

Alex: "It's a huge business owned by the "Luceria Family" Intelligence and Proficiency combined and created a massive amount of commerce."

Cleo: "Commerce?"

Alex: "According to some hidden investigations that I fortunately discovered, this particular company cages their shareholders until they reach to a point of coercing their business partners to give them a 100% of ownership to whatever business they hold kicking them out in the process."

Cleo: "How are they not been exposed yet?"

Alex: "Well, news articles covering this topic were immediately erased off the face of the media, and just like I said earlier, I was lucky enough to dig some dirt on them."

Cleo crossed his arms together.

Cleo: "And if they successfully have father on agreeing with them under these conditions..."

Alex: "His rights for his own company will be gone for good."

Cleo formed a fist on his hand out of anger.

Cleo: "If they think that is how it'll end for father then they got another coming."

Alex: "Father would be furious if he ever finds out we've been meddling with his business... We can't take the risk of getting caught."

Cleo approached the table and took the files, arranged them properly before taking them with him.

Cleo: "Which is why I need your help, do you think you can use your lengthy knowledge to set me up with a meeting with him?"

Alex: "I guess but... Why would you want to meet up with the Lucerias?"

Cleo: "I simply want to have a word with them."

As Cleo was about to leave the room, Alex stood from his chair.

Alex: "What exactly are you planning Cleo?!"

Cleo turned around to face him.

Cleo: "Relax alex, I'm simply going to help them have a taste of their own medicine."

Alex stood there, his heart pounding with nervous as he's completely oblivious on what Cleo has on his mind...

A part of him wants to stop him, but he also didn't want his father to lose the company he had worked so hard for.

Alex: "I hope my worries prove me wrong Cleo..."

"I really hope."

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