A Billion Dollars Game

Chapter 3: Unannounced Arrivals

I sat in my office contemplating on what just happened. Thinking about it, made my stomach twisted. I took a deep breath to shake my thoughts and I realized, I reeked with his smell.

"Hey." Alex busted in my office. I looked at her, and her expressions told me something was not right. I was about to ask her but right behind her entered, Mr. Robert Scott. My Father. And I understood Alex's expressions. I stood from my seat unintentionally and nodded at Alex and she went away.

"Father, to what do I owe this honor?" I asked as I signaled him to sit in front of me. but he stood there, just staring. And then I realized what he meant.

My Father started his struggle early in life, when his father died in front of him due to drug over-dose. He was only 8 at that time. And he stayed with his dead body for 5 days, until someone came and found them. I heard that story from a very young age. He always said, I became a man after those 5 days. But he became too manly that he thought, treating his only daughter with a little love would make him weak. Those 5 days might have made him stronger, but I was pretty sure, they made him an empathy less, stone-hearted person.

Drenched in his ego and pride of money, he stood in front of me. I walked myself to the other side of the table, where he was standing and signaled him to sit on my chair. He moved and sat there while I sat in front of him. His unannounced arrival made me agitated. Something wasn't right. 

"So, did you submit the tax report for this month?" He asked me. I nodded and he rose his hand high. I got up from my seat and took out the monthly taxes file and I gave it to him.

"You want something to drink? Or eat?" I asked him, regardless of everything. And he shook his head.

I sat down again, in silence After a minute which seemed like a decade, he said.

"Give me the booking charts for this month and also I want the sales from the restaurant." This was new, he never asked me those things before. He kept a check on the taxes of the hotel yearly, but never monthly.

"Father, what is this about? I gave you the report last month, of whole year. Like always. And why are you asking about the sales?" I asked him.

"Give me the files, Kate. I will be on my way." I didn't see the point of argument. But I got the gist. He was about to do something about it. I called Alex and asked her to arrange the documents. She made the files and I gave them to him. He stood up and went away. I just sat in my office, thinking.

"What was that about?" Alex came in. "I don't know Alex, but I didn't like it." I said biting my nails.

"I think he is about to sell the hotel." I divulged my thoughts. "Kate, what are you saying? He can't do it without your authorization. Right?" She confirmed from me. But at that moment I, myself was unsure. I did own the hotel, but could I deny the demand of my father. I was fretted. This hotel was my life. I have been here since I remember. I couldn't let him take that away from me. If he was selling the hotel. I had to do something about it.

"I will be right back. I have to go and check something." Alex said to me, when she didn't get any response from me. And I just nodded.  I was in my thoughts, when a red light started blinking on my intercom. It was from the Penthouse. I took a deep breath and picked up.

"Hello." I said, as a faint memory of afternoon played in my mind and I jittered.

"Kate?" He called my name. I was preoccupied with million other thoughts, but I couldn't mess that up. "Yes. Mr. Greyson, how can I help you?" I asked him. I could hear his phone started ringing behind him and he got a little distracted too.

"Can you come up?" He asked me. "I am a little busy, is it something important?" I asked him, because I was still a little mad at what he did to me before.

"Just come when you can." He said and cancelled the call.

"Ugh, I hate him." I said to myself and put the receiver down. I got up and went to the elevator. I pressed the button and started waiting for it. It finally came and I went up to the penthouse. The elevator reached to its point, and I went in. I could hear him talking from the study. He was on call.

I went near the study but stopped when something caught my ear.

"First of all, it was a fucking mistake, you, coming up here." William said in an enraged voice. He was with someone. "Second of all, if he is trying to sell the hotel, then I will just kill him, Lex." He continued in a soft, yet scary tone and my legs started to shiver.

"Look, I just wanted to inform you with this information. That's all." The other person spoke. It was a very familiar voice. My breath caught in my throat.

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