Married by force

Chapter 1

Dana took a deep breath. She had a headache and was annoyed but she was in an important meeting and had to attend though she much rather had skipped the boring meeting. She opend her eyes, she was seated at the very top of the table and couldn't allow herself to not listen so she fixed her view onto the older man standig at the other table end and pointing onto some diagramm. Again... She took a deep breath.

This is going to be a looong day, she thought while giving her best not to let her thoughts wander off somewhere. The moment where she craved for an aspirin was the moment her Pr manager Owen came rushed in and interruptet the meeting. In a way she was thankfull to get a break, she never really cared much about how much money the firma made. She cared about the quality of her workers and most of the staff knew that well. She made sure they never forgot what Steel and Fire Inc. stood for. She fixed her gaze on Owen as she realized that her thoughts were trailling off once more.

"What is it Owen?" Her voice a calm yet cool tone she raised a brow questening.
Owen just stood there a moment, trying to catch his breath, when he finally gathered enough breath to speak his normally dark voice was pitched up about to tombres higher than usually "Have you read the news yet ?" was everything she got. Suddelny the headache was back again, clinging its claws right in her brain. The irritation was well heard in her voice when she answered "No Owen I haven't, maybe you forgot but I actually have to work every morning.

Owen gulped as he pulled out a newspaper under his jacket and layed it infront of Dana "Just read..." he said, his voice conserningly deep.
Dana took the newspaper, very aware of the room full of people staring at her.

The first she saw was the headline.
In big fat letters there was written :

Dana Steel hiring ex prisoners  ?!

Dana went pale as she read the article about how, she, Dana Steel the misstres of the lawyer world, was hiring people, wo were in prison and who were drug addicts. She gulped as she layed the paper down. Her hands shaking, not in fear... but plain pure anger. Her silver eyes were burning in fierce fire of revenge when she pinned Owen with her gaze. "Who did this ? Who told the reporters ?". Her voice was clear and sharp as a scalpel.  

Owen struggled and gulped "As far as I know it was an Inturn you fired about a week ago. He was so angry he told the press our secret"
Dana cursed under her breath. This ment trouble, a huge amount of trouble. Maybe some of her clients would choose someone else before her because they didn't trust her anymore and that would kill her and her employees. She couldn't let that happen but what should she do ?
It was in the news big time. Never before had someone been able to talk bad about Fire and Steel Inc. but now the had the perfekt opportunity to ruin her business.

She looked up at Owen, her eyes blue silvery orbs of freezing cold. "Owen I want you to gather the press. I will hold a meeting and tell them it was all a lie." Yeah she'd be lying but it was for the sake of the company and everyone who worked here. She would call it a social experiment. Her hiring 'bad' people, it shoudn't have bothered anyone but she was CEO of one of the worlds biggest companies in the law inforcement so everything interested the media, especially if it would be able to hurt her company. 

This would be hard, she took a deep breath, her headache only got worse and she rubbed her temples. She was under extreme pressure, shoe couldn't say something wrong, she couldn't say the truth or the reputation of her company would be shattered. She sighed. Was this a joke. She had people who were hired to fucking make this NOT happen. She had the ourge to kick something but she had tho contoll herself. This would be hard, harder than a rock. And this would be the perfect oppotunity for the other companys to make a run for the top. She wouldn't let them, she had worked hard for this, she had fought hard to make it to the top and she would not go down to one simple person that just went running with the company secret. 

She looked at her watch, it was time. She flattend the wrinkles in her suit and walked to the big conference room. The press was gathered. Like piranhas ready to gnaw her flesh of the bone. 
She straightened her shoulders und walked to the podium. She watched as the press rose and the cameras flickered while a bunch of photos was taken. If she showed weakness it was over, she would be strong, she would save the reputation of her baby. 
"As we all know some one.." "IS it true that ire and steel inc. are hiring ex prisioners ?!" A repoter interrupted her. She narrowed her eyes at the reporter. "No it is NOT true !" She almost hissed already annoyed by the reporters and flashing lights.
"How pathetic that you take every lie as truth without even looking up the facts" she stated with eyes cold as ice.
The reporters were silenced but not because they were intimidated. Fuck, she thought. She had lost controll. Now here outbreak would be all over the news. The once so calm Dana now fiering shoots at the press. She could already see the headlines comming.