"Hey it"s been three days, have you arrived safely?" Leslie asked upon receiving a call from Amber."I arrived just fine. But I need you to rush the game we are developing. Cooper Empire was focused on games this year."
"And?"
"I"ll be needing that to placate them. I"ll trust you will be able to finish that in a week span of time. Bye."
Leslie was about to retort but heard the end of call tone. She stared at her phone in shock.
A week? Does she think they are robots? Though it is a simple race game, they have incorporated the idea of using your own phone as your steering wheel.
They needed to make sure that every touch phone brand won"t have any glitches or lag.
They dove into game development at the same time they dove into the hardware.
That is why their six years were completely packed that she sometimes wonder how she was able to graduate.
But hearing the seriousness in Amber"s voice and the way she said that it is to placate the Cooper Empire.
"It seems that the reason why she suddenly left was connected to them," Leslie shook her head and made a call to her secretary for an emergency meeting.
"One week? You really look up to us, don"t you?" she added in her mind.
*****
After making that call Amber went ahead and walked past a man, "I know how to help your daughter."
The man stopped in his tracks and felt that lady place something on his pocket.
Seeing how secretive she was, he acted like nothing has happened as well and went his way.
Upon arriving to the company, he went straight to the men"s restroom and reached in his pocket.
It was a letter.
~I know that a bomb was placed on your daughter and you are being closely watched. I can help you, contact me in this number. I will wait for five days.~
Without instruction he pulled out his lighter and burnt the letter before flus.h.i.+ng it in the toilet.
His heart was beating so fast, the word help was never mentioned to them.
For five long years he wanted to hear that word. He gave up everything and was prepared to leave in order for his family to be safe.
But that person didn"t allow him to do so and even implanted a bomb in his daughter to make him his puppet.
But he too was skeptical, why the sudden appearance? Why would someone suddenly appear?
As he contemplated, Amber who was wearing a sun gla.s.s and face mask returned to her apartment.
Upon removing them, a hideous scar was presented. It run from above her right eyebrow, crossing her nose bridge and ended below her left eye.
She sat tiredly in her sofa, before slowly sliding down to a lying position.
"I would really need my own people to do all these stuffs in the future."
She complained when the doorbell rang. She frowned, she didn"t order anything nor someone knew her, for them to visit her.
She put on a white half mask, something not as eye catching as her silver one.
In full alert she went to check the monitor. It was a delivery man, she grabbed a knife in her kitchen before walking to the door.
Putting the hand holding the knife behind her, she opened the door.
"Good day ma"am, delivery for ms. Amber Wood?"
The man was first stunned before handing her the food and gave a bow.
After closing, Amber stared blankly at the food when her usual phone rang.
"h.e.l.lo, have you received the food? I ordered that for you, you should try it. It wsas one of the best dishes in one of my favorite restaurants."
Amber couldn"t help but to ma.s.sage her temples, "Grandfather, no one must know I am here."
"Don"t worry, it"s not like the name would instantly be connected to you. Oh and I placed a few guards around you."
Sometimes she couldn"t help but wonder if Gideon Wright was her biological grandfather or not.
He takes care of her better than most people.
"I understand, thank you very much. I will eat everything happily."
Gideon smiled happily after they ended the call.
He only has three children, Kyle, Michael and Tiffany.
Kyle has two children, Ashton and Ashley.
Michael has two, Lian and Caleb.
Tiffany has one, Gee Ann.
Both Lian and Caleb, have respect towards Ashton and both knew that he was capable enough for the position as the master of Wright Empire.
Within these five grandchildren of his, not one appreciated this kind of simple gifting.
They love him very much but Ashton was cold, Ashley was under them so she does not need it.
Lian and Caleb would rather joke that he should have just given them the restaurant itself. But they will still eat the food.
Gee Ann, well she was too focused on her dream and is currently in another country for training.
Upon hearing Amber say that she will eat it happily, he felt so much happiness.
"Nathan, you have such a lovely child," he couldn"t help but say.
*****
It was on the fifth day, before Amber got the call.
The call was through the disposable phone she placed into a big teddy bear that a delivery man sent, saying that he bought it.
Then on the note was a few words. Inside my heart, you will always be my baby girl.
Confusion filled him for inside my heart was underlined twice.
When asked by people who saw it, he just remarked that it was for his daughter.
She was an eight year old girl. And him giving her teddy bears were normal so no one suspected it.
Upon returning home, knowing where the hidden camera"s are, he stealthily carried the teddy bear and placed it where it was in a blind spot of a camera.
When he reached inside, he found the phone.
He was obviously shocked. The way it was delivered and the way the note was written. The sender knew he was being monitored.
He then patched up the teddy bear before happily giving it to his daughter.
It was all seen by the cameras that the teddy bear was indeed for his daughter.
He hid the disposable phone and thought hard until the last day.
"Who are you?"
"Well I suppose, I am someone who needed them to pay as well."
"How will you help me?"
"Just let me enter his office, then I will help you."
After that Amber explained everything.
"How can I be sure?"
"Someone else will call you, then you might as well just trust me. Just go to where they ask you to," Amber replied before hanging up.
The man stared at his disposable phone before receiving a call on his real phone.
"h.e.l.lo?"
"Yes h.e.l.lo this is..."
He furrowed his brows as he listened, it was a police calling him to the station for his lost wallet?
He kept the dispposable phone in his inner pocket before putting his phone back into his pants pocket.
He then stepped out of the restroom.
Remembering that the helper told him to go. He just followed along. Just as he stepped out of the building.
A guard followed him, "I am going to the police station, I have lost a wallet and my identification cards were there. You have heard right?"
The guard just nodded before he followed him to the station.
To his surprise the police chief was there and was inspecting the place.
As Lucas pa.s.sed him he said a single word, "Believe."
Jacob was obviously shocked but he managed to hold it in and thanked the police officer in front of him.
When he opened it, everything inside was the same as what was inside his wallet.
"Just how capable is this person?"
Even the police chief was there to support her?
That night, he gave the number another call inside the bathroom and approved of her plans.
*****
"You even had me make a trip, quite capable aren"t you?" Lucas said as he speak to the phone.
"To make it more believable. He is the best witness after all."
"And have you placed the devices?"
Amber have explained to Lucas what she found out.
Thomas Barbers should have been the successor but he back away. Giving the position to Mario.
People said that his daughter that time was in vacation but some found it weird how much he missed his daughter to the point of tears upon her return.
He was also planning on leaving the country with his family but suddenly decided not to push through.
Amber felt something was off regarding this and checked the records of his daughter going on another country.
Only to come up that not once have she left Celestial Country.
Then she checked the plan of their vacation, it was said that everything was prepared but somehow Thomas looked pale after he supposedly pa.s.sed his resignation.
So she focused her attention to the young child.
The child after returning have quite a lot of fainting spiels but not once did Thomas bring her to the hospital.
She then placed a listening device on Thomas, it was small enough that detectors wouldn"t even notice it.
It stick that even water wouldn"t be able to remove it.
After two weeks of listening, she finally heard that Mario implanted a bomb in the girl"s head. It was during a time that the girl collapsed again and the mother was hysterical.
He used this to make Thomas work for him, for Thomas was actually smarter than him.