It All Starts With a Lie

They came closer

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Chapter 26: They Came Closer

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It was a conference room where all the delicates were situated. They were the Chief Operating Officer, the Director, and even the defense minister, Exo, and all the head other agents of the Ancient. Ella was standing near the project board as she was giving a presentation today. She was very nervous. She was twisting her wedding ring.

"Please proceed," The Chief Operating Officer said.

After hearing the command, Ella pressed a button on the remote which, she was holding in her hand. A PPT screen appeared in which there were a few pictures of Grandma displayed with a description written about her.

"Tell us. What've you got about the Matthews?" The Chief asked.

"After marrying Jason, I went through every member's history and present. Let's start with the eldest member of their family, Marie Matthews. Age; 80. Wife of Davy Matthews who died a few years back in 2018. Originally, her parents were from South Korea who settled and married here. She was born and brought up here, in America. But still, she lives with a thinking of living together with family which perhaps Davy liked and after their marriage to now, everyone who was born in their house is living together including me and Jason.

What I've got about her is she is strict, doesn't like romance in public but also she doesn't have any relation with Victor Deadborn or any other terror group."

Ella then displayed a screen with information about Lorenzo and continued, "In the next, it's Lorenzo Matthews. Age; 58. Son of Davy and Marie. Married his secretory, Indie in the year 1993. He's been handling all the international cases of his company. Thus, He's not here every time. After making his son, the vice president of the company he goes on world tours, at least thrice in a year. Last year, it was four, which makes him more suspicious. He never gives time to his wife or his family and this has been happening for the last ten years when his son was twenty. It's been a long, he's been living here. This is because of newly marriage of his son."

Then she switched the screen to the next slide which included Indie's information, "Indie Matthews. Age; 53. She was born to a poor family but her hard work made her work as a secretary for one of the millionaire's son. Like I said, Lorenzo after a few of their marriage, never gave time to her which resulted in an extra-marital affair. She had a relationship with a person named, David in 1998, for a year. When Indie realized that she's doing wrong with his husband, they broke up. Since then, for the whole world, he died but for Indie, he's been blackmailing her by their private pictures for a long time."

"Does anyone know about it in that family?" The Director asked.

"Not till now," Ella replied. "Still she doesn't have any records with terrorism,"

She changed the slide which showed Jason's information, " Jason Matthews, age 32, is the only son of Indie and Lorenzo. He studied here until the age of fifteen and then went on to further studies in Zurich. He returned in 2018 after his grandfather's death but isolated himself until the day he was declared the company's CEO. He recently got married but has a girlfriend named Rory. He has been in a serious relationship with her for eleven years. He joined the Ancient in 2012 and Rory became his girlfriend just after a year he joined the Ancient.

A member related to their family, Rose, has recently joined their company."

"The things you said, it's all of a normal family," The Defense minister intruded.

"Why you're telling this to us if it's of no use," The Director said.

"Do you want to say that we were mistaken?" The Chief Operating Officer asked.