Without A Heart

CH 02

"Good morning, National City! Mona Vanderwall, here. Your favorite radio presenter. And, I have the biggest news ever. One of my many sources sent me this photo: 'Spotted at the Grand Central station, bag in hand, Morgan Edge in a secret rendezvous with William Dey of Catco Magazine' You might wonder what is the big deal about this? I mean, do not get me wrong, if this a secret love story, I'm more than ready to ship them. But, I don't think this is about love... I don't know what you think, but, if you ask me, this bag between them seems very suspicious to me. Could it be that Morgan Edge is trying to pay his way to the exclusive CatCo ranking of the Best Entrepreneurs of the year?" Lena keeps hearing the radio broadcast while she jogs around the biggest park of National City...

"Really, Edge? You're that desperate to get into the fucking list of a Magazine...?" Lena mocks "Pathetic..." The CEO doesn't seem surprised to the accusations against Morgan Edge. She really thinks that he has done worse things than trying to bribe a reporter. Really, how people like him can walk freely in the streets? Lena wonders. But well, it seems that Karma is finally reaching him since this time he got caught in the act. Lena is not a big fan of gossips, but, she must admit that every note done by this radio presenter has been actually true, so, if what she's saying right now is true too, someone will be really pissed today...

"KIARA! TO MY OFFICE, NOW!" The blonde reporter takes a deep breath while she walks towards the office of a very, very angry Cat Grant. "Close the door..." Kara follows the order of her boss, and, closes the door of the office.

Why she's here? She's not the one who pissed her off, that's for sure, right? Kara starts to wonder what she could have done to be called into the office of Cat. It's because she ate all the donuts this morning? It's not her fault that she can eat so much! Or, maybe it's because she hasn't been able to interview Lena Luthor as Cat wanted. In her defense, she has really tried, but, it's not her fault that each time she tries to get a meeting with the young Luthor, she gets a rotound 'No'.

Lena Luthors doesn't do well with reporters, and, till now, no one has been able to get an exclusive interview with her, not even CatCo Magazine. And, Kara feels a little down with that, but, she hopes that her inability to get such interview, it's not the reason why Cat looks so angry this morning. Kara's worries get worse when the Queen of all media starts smashing things in her office...

"Miss Grant?!" The blonde has never seen Cat like this. And, her worried look is enough to soothe Cat's anger. "My apologies for the display of... you know... but, it seems that you cannot trust anyone these days..." Cat says after breaking another thing from her office. Kara gulps hard, looking around, the damages might have raised already to more than ten times Kara's salary. The privilege of being rich Kara thinks, and, the blonde has no intention to say a word at least than Cat asks something. The last thing Kara wants to do, it's to throw more fuel on the fire of Cat's rage, but, when she sees something cracked all over the floor, her mouth speaks before her brain could register it...

"OMG! You broke your sculpture of Jeff Koons?!" The blonde says in a big shock, "That sculpture must cost more than just a few bucks!" Kara's jaw drops open, big blue eyes can't believe what she's seeing...

"Kiara, focus! I didn't call you to tell me how expensive are my things!" Kara nods, but still, that sculpture was so unique, and, beautiful. Kara loved her because it had a shape of a dog, and, she loves dogs, well, she loves many things: food, flowers, the sun, the rain, the wind...

Kara is so lost in her thoughts that she seems absent from their conversation. She's in her own world, so distracted of reality that she doesn't put attention on her boss' words till Cat drops a big file in front of Kara...

"What is this?" The blonde reporter asks, and, she regrets it the moment she sees the killer stare of her boss. If looks could kill, her sister Alex would be reading already her obituary right now...