Paying The Price

Top floor, CEO's office.

A middle aged man in black suit sat on a chair with his legs crossed, by his sides, an early 30's woman wearing a black body hugging gown held a tab on her arm and a man with a black Italian haute counter suit flipped through some doc.u.ments. Leon stood by the window looking at the scenery of the city.

"Mr, am hungry." A little soft voice drew their attention to the entrance.

"Hold on, we'll go out for lunch soon." Wayne replied with tenderness, trying to coax his daughter, he had to ignore the word 'Mr' with great exertion. 'She would change soon' he thought to himself, though it may take time.

Pearl on the other hand wasn't very promising. "How can I trust a stingy promise breaker?"

Sign

Wayne had a long way to go, it seems every step he takes makes the distance longer. Yesterday he was stingy, today he's a promise breaker, cards had to be played right or he could loose them all.

"Is this your daughter?" The middle aged man had stood up from the chair, walking towards Wayne he asked. A 'Yes' was about to slip through Wayne's mouth but Pearl replied quickly before he could.

"He's not my dad, he's a counterfeit."

Pftt

Those present in the room found it difficult to control their laughter, denied by your daughter was one thing called a counterfeit was another.

"Am I interrupting something?" Ronin walked into the office with some doc.u.ments in hand.

"I thought you had left." The Ronin Wayne knew, wouldn't waste a second here mostly when he had an event to attend to, cause he wouldn't want to be restricted from attending.

"I had somethings to attend to and the meeting doesn't start till 6 this evening, anyway I just wanted to drop this here and leave." Ronin walked up the table, leaving the doc.u.ments on it, he was on his way out when a task was placed on him.

"Take Pearl out for lunch first then bring her back."

Complying with Wayne's command, Ronin turned to Pearl "Come on Sugar let's...."

"Whoa uncle!, only authorized people can call me that." Pearl cut him short.

"She's really adorable." The woman couldn't help but comment.

"Why thank you, please call me Sugar." Pearl blushed.

"She can call you sugar and I can't?!" Ronin lamented bitterly.

"Of course, she's authorized. Here's my card, call me." Pearl brought out a contact card from her bag and handed it to the lady after reprimanding Ronin.

"Thank you, I will." Cheerfully accepting the card the lady thanked Pearl.

Pearl walked out of the office filling satisfied leaving behind Ronin who was stupefied beyond compare, snapping back he exited the office miserably.

"She has a contact card?" Leon asked, slightly confused.

"I just found out." Taking a good look at their appearance, Wayne enquired "Why are you dressed like you're at a funeral?"

"We are at a funeral, the world's funeral." The Italian haute counter suited man replied.