SLS#4# Today's Cleopatra

Easy

Riley's POV

" Are you sure about that?" Ann asked me.

" Come on, Ann. This is the only way to get them on this trap." I said smirkingly. She sighed.

" God knows where you are going to get us trapped today. " She said.

" Just trust on me." I said.

" I am trying." She said. I glared at her. 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😠😠😠😠😠😠.

" What's with trying, huh?" I asked her.

" Nothing. Let's go in. We are getting late." She said to me.

" Ok, ok. Slow down, girl." I said to her. But she didn't stop.

" Just come with me." She said and dragged me with her. We entered into the bank building.

" Excuse me." I said to the receptionist.

" Yes, Ma'am." She said smilingly.

" Has Mr. Clark reached office already?" I asked her.

" Yes, ma'am. But do you have any appointment with him?" She asked me.

" Yeah. We do have an appointment with him." I said.

" Then please wait for a moment." She said.

" Sure." I said and she called someone to make sure if I really had an appointment with him or not. I chuckled inwardly.

" Ma'am, your name please?" She asked.

" Oh, Riley Dowson and Annie Frost." I said. She nodded and spoke for another few minutes then kept the phone down.

" Yes, ma'am. You can go in. David!!!" She called someone.

" Yes, Maddie." He said.

" Please, lead them to Mr. Clark's cabin. They have an appointment with him." She said.

" Sure. Please follow me, Ma'am." The David guy said. I nodded. Ann and I followed him.

We entered the lift and he pressed 27. I kept checking our papers for one last time. I don't want anything goes wrong at the last moment. I can handle even if things goes wrong but still I just don't want things goes wrong. I don't want to use my tricks here today.

" Ma'am, this way, please." David said and I nodded. We followed him and reached in front of the cabin of the MD of the bank.

Dustin Clark
Managing Director

" Thanks a lot." I said and he nodded smilingly then left.

" Let's go in." Ann said and knocked on the door.

" Please, come in." Someone said and I opened the door then entered into the cabin along with Ann.

I rolled my eyes finding the MD of the bank. I thought he would be a middle aged guy but it seems he is in his late 20s. No problems. I can handle men. We walked towards him.

" Please, have a seat." He said.

We sat on the visitor chairs and then I noticed there was someone else sitting there across the MD. There was something significant about him which I wasn't able to figure out

He is dashing!!! My brain admitted. I shook my head and threw that thought away.

Focus, RD... Focus...

" We had an appointment with you, Mr. Clark." Ann said.

" Oh, yes. I do remember." He said.

" Very well then you might remember that we had applied for a loan." I said to him.

" Hmm... I remember. But you couldn't give a trustworthy reference here. Why are you guys taking a loan?" He asked me. I looked at him irritatingly. Everything was stated there on the form.

" I believe that every single information was stated on the form and if I am not wrong you have already checked that after all that's what your work is. It's your responsibility." I said and he looked at me properly this time. Good job, RD.

" Yeah, I have checked it." He said.

" Then you should know that we are going to have start a new fashion house, boutique and clothing lines. A new brand. That's it." I said.

" Yeah, I know that." He said.

" Then why did you ask me that?" I asked him.

" I just wanted to be cleared about it." He said.

" It was cleared in the form that we submitted. Do you think my time is not valuable to be wasted?" I asked him.

" You took me wrong." He said.

" This is only thing anyone can think about. You are wasting my time. It's precious to me." I said and he looked a bit shocked.

" Well. Let's talk about the loan." He said.

" Hmm...sure." I said.

" How much do you need to open that fashion house?" He asked me.

" I thought we had applied for 20 millions." I said and he looked at me sharply.

" That's not a small amount." He said.

" Yes, but your bank notice says that you guys give loans up to 100 millions. Is that fake?" I asked him.

" That depends on reference which you guys don't have any." He said.

" Oh, I was wondering who was Mr. Freed's reference that he got 150 millions from this bank which is quiet impossible according to the bank notice. Isn't it?" I asked him and he looked at me completely shocked and the guy who was sitting next to me chuckled.

" Answer her, Dusty. You know the answer, right?" He asked. That Dustin guy rolled his eyes.

" Look, Ma'am, that's completely an internal issue of bank. You can't point your finger at that." Dustin said.

" Internal or personal? I heard Mr. Freed is your brother in law." I asked him. He looked at me angrily.

" He is not." He gritted. I chuckled inwardly.

" Oh, sorry. He was. He was." I said.

" What do you want to say?" He asked me.

" I want to say that if you can give loan to him without any reference then you can give loan to us as well. I assure you we will never ever do anything like Mr. Freed. Besides our headquarter is a block away from this bank. If we fail to do it you can seize our headquarter as easy as that. If you still don't believe us you can come and check our fashion house. We are not hiding anything." I said and he sighed.

" But are you sure that you can return the money back in time?" He asked me.

" I am confident about that." I said and he nodded.

I smiled at Ann and she was looking at me weirdly. I chuckled.  It was easy to handle this. I didn't think it would be this easy.