Faustini ✔️

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Dina climbed into her car with her gym bag and closed the door. "Drive to the Faustini Penthouse." Sebastian ordered as he sat in the backseat. 

"Um, no thanks, I'm going to the gym." Dina responded indifferently to Sebastian's demand. 

Sebastian lunged forward and held a knife at Dina's throat. "Drive to the Faustini Penthouse." He repeated. 

"Jesus, alright!" Dina started the car. "I will take you the Faustini Penthouse because you can't even afford your own car." Dina ran her brain for possible insults. "Can you move the knife? I don't want to have to take a sharp turn and, well, you can guess the rest." 

"Fine." Sebastian put the knife away and slipped into the front seat. "And if you try anything-"

"Save it, Bastiano. I have children, you wouldn't hurt a mother." Dina snorted. 

Sebastian shrugged. "I nearly drowned Landon Laiture the other day and he has four children, so step on it." 

Amara was tending to Lorenzo's wounds as Elena stood close by, attempting to lighten the mood. "Do you know what's funny, the only Faustini I wanted to see isn't here." Elena shook her head. "That's not true, I wanted to see you too father. There was something I wanted to ask you."

Valentino had a surprised expression. "What is it?"

"I was thinking about my future, I talked a lot about it with a friend and I realised what I wanted." Elena began, walking closer. 

"Isn't that optimistic? Thinking about your future in our current position." Valentino looked over Elena and glared angrily at Diego. Diego ignored the obvious stab at him and checked his watch. 

"I want a job at the company- it doesn't have to be big." Elena shot back quickly to back up her statement. "And to balance it, I would transfer to online schooling. St Augustine was never really fit for me anyways."

"Elena." Her father laughed. "That's not going to happen."

Elena was taken back. "What, why not? You said-"

"Yeah, I'd give you a position when you were older." Her father laughed. "Do you really think I'd hire a fifteen year old? I need to be taken seriously. Hiring a fifteen year old? That's laughable." 

Elena looked defeated before rushing upstairs. Lorenzo shook his head. "That was uncool."

Diego laughed. "Are you kidding me? That was hilarious. It almost makes me not want to kill you." Diego checked his watch once again. "Thirty-five minutes."

Ralphio approached Landon as soon as he dropped by. "Any news yet?" He inquired. 

"Yes, sort of." Ralphio replied as he read off of his clipboard. "They managed to debunk the coding to discover it has a data reader type technology that in a way deciphers our strong encryption and transmits discovered data to the source in moments." Ralphio squinted at the clipboard. "How is that possible? It takes me ages to download Crossy Road." Ralphio murmured to himself. 

Landon ignored Ralphio's last comment. "Anything else?"

"Yes. One of the technicians believes you had this idea pitched to you a few years ago, apparently you turned it down because you believed it would do harm to your company. They're bringing up files in hopes they can find it." Ralphio explained. 

"Report back to me as soon as you find results." Landon instructed before wandering off. 

Sebastian pushed Dina into the elevator that led to the Faustini Penthouse. Upon seeing Diego after the doors opened, she screamed. "No, no, no!" She turned around and faced Sebastian, but he ignored her screams and pushed her closer to Diego. Once she was a metre away, Sebastian ceased pushing her about.