Charlotte

Chapter 2

8 years later

1/7/2020
Charlotte's POV

"Yes Mum. I'm fine. What about Holly? Mellanie told me she got a seizure? Was she rushed to hospital? I'm so wor-"

"Yes. She's fine. You don't have to worry dear. You have enough to worry about, especially now that you own your own company. I'm proud of you honey, at the age of twenty four, you're a very busy woman."

"I might be a very busy woman but I always make time for family." I said softly into the phone.

I walked towards my office desk, took a seat on my leather sit and sighed, "Mum, are you sure Holly's okay?"

"She's okay Charlotte. It's just a seizure, it's not her first one."

Holly- is my sister, she's fifeteen years old and Mellanie is twenty, she's my sister too.Holly is a very shy girl if you ask me, very humble is what my mum calls it. Mellanie is the complete opposite of Holly, outgoing and talks a lot, she put her personality into use and became an actress, a successful one infact, in Hollywood.

"Really, it's fine, go back to work dear, maybe you can fly in this Friday, don't you think? Just to check up on her and the family. Dad misses your cooking. He says he prefers yours to mine. Im thinking of divorcing him now." She giggled.

"Ooh noo. Can't do Friday, nor the weekend too, a company wants to do a deal . This deal is going to gain massive profits for both the companies. Sorry mom. Maybe next weekend? And if you ever divorce dad, i dont think he'd survive on his own since you always remind him where his glasses are every two minutes, he'd be blind without you."

We we both laughed simultaneously.

"Ms. Walters, your assistance is needed at the printing office, the printer has failed to function Ms." Matthew, my personal assistant, spoke through the small space between the door and the side of the wall.

"You know you can just enter my office, right? Always shy, aren't you Matthew?"

"Ooh. Pass a hi to Matthew. Hope he's doing good." Mother said through the phone.

"Okay mom. I have to go back to work, have a good day!"

"Good bye. You too honey. Promise me you'll call me later this day, okay?"

"Yes mom. Byee."

"Bye honey!"

And the line was cut and it became silent.

I switched my phone off and looked at Matthew who was now in my office, adjusting his thick glasses properly.

"Matthew, call the technician or whatever and as soon as possible."

"Yes ma'am." He responded almost immediately.

"I though we got over this ma'am thing. Im twenty four not six decades old you know. Call me Charlotte." I said smilling.

"Yes ma- I mean, Charlotte." He said side smirking.

He turned his lean body around slowly and opened the door to get out and just before he got out, I opened my mouth to speak.

"My mom said hi by the way."

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"Good evening Ms. Walters."

"Hello Catherine. How was your day? Mine was packed."

"Mine was the usuall, me here struggling with Ms. Puffball on where to release his wicked bombs." Catherine, the house keeper, said as she pointed to sailums, my white cat, who was sleeping on the couch beside me.

I wish I were her, sleeping for almost twenty hours a day.

"Still has a problem with potty training Shnukums?" I said walking towards sailums and played with her fur. He immediately started purring.

My house is a six bed-roomed house although I only lived on my own. Catherine only came during the day and went at seven, sometimes we even have dinner together. Mother thought it would be best to have a huge glass house just incase the whole family came to visit, I thought it would be completely hazardous since almost everything here is fragile.

However, my mom always has her way around everything.

I considered Catherine to be my gaurdian angel. She was elderly and she had a lot of experience in life that she had taught me. She's litteraly my other mother. She's helped me through those times I used to come home crying about the company's failure, but she gave me some advice on how to handle it although she is totally inexperienced in the bussiness field, I guess she had unlimited wisdom too, she also helped me in improving my cooking skills. If you ever tasted any of her dishes I think you'd have a food orgasm immediately.

My life since I employed her has been great actually. The company I own (Mayfields oil.) has its bussiness booming, investors after investors and deals after deals.

My company has many branches across the world. I am glad to say that the company has been established through sweat, determination and hard work I did during my university days.

I was also amongst the top thirty under thirty. People really congratulated me on being a self-made millionare at such a young age. I'm glad I made the right decisions in life.

I switched my phone on and went through my e-mails breifly. As I was checking, I tapped on a read e-mail by mistake.

It was the one the investor had sent to me.

His name was Mr. Filters.

I remeber the first time that I read it, the name seemed extremely familiar.

I couldn't remeber.

However, I immediately erased the feeling and continued doing the work.

I was very excited upon remebering that if we actually do get the deal, both our companies would greatly gain huge profit on it. Im positive about it.

"Charlotte. Im off for home!" Catherine said as she removed her apron off.

"Oooh. Okay. Have a nice evening!"