THE CEO AND ME!

"I know it is a lot to take in but your dad and I are going to fix this...do not worry. You give your attention to getting in with Josh...maybe after the marriage, we might get some help...."

Mom said, rubbing her palms above mines. I nodded positively. I knew Josh could help.

"It will all be fine mom. Do not worry...go ahead."

Mom and I shared one last hug before she bid me farewell for the final time and they were off in their Mercedes leaving me all alone in this huge ass mansion.

I hummed to myself as I stepped away from the veranda and got inside the mansion again. The maids were cleaning up the breakfast table.

After what mom had just revealed about our financial status being so down to drain, I could not help but feel a little bit uneasy about all of it.

Although it was true, I did not know any of these but still, I was concerned about my family business.

I had a plan to go out shopping for my dress, shoes, and stuff for the upcoming Josh's party but now I had lost all the interest in it.

Regardless, I knew I could not just sit around, sulking and thinking about the crisis.

So I got up and collected my credit platinum card, a gift from daddy, and my purse before heading out in my Bugatti Veyron.

Since last night, I had not received any texts or calls from my fiance and I knew that he was still mad at me and that was why he must have not really even tried to contact me in any way.

I doubted that if Josh did not know about the crisis in Rutherford Corp and I was hoping that he was busy helping my daddy in all these.

As I parked my car by the corner of one of the many stores I shop from, I got out and walked towards the store only to stop on the way when my phone started to vibrate.

I halted and pulled the phone out to see who's the message it was. As I ran my eyes over the text message from my credit card bank blew my mind off.

They had sealed my credits, frozen my accessories. That shocked me to no extent. What the hell was going on??

I asked that question to myself as I ran my eyes over the text message over and over again, standing outside the entrance of the store.

What if the financial crisis was really very bad than what I was expecting it to be??

It surely did not help when you had no idea about even what caused the crisis. I had zero knowledge when it came to business stuff, I was raised to be ignorant about that stuff.

Now that in moments like these I realized, how helpful it would have been if I knew at least a few details if not all.

I had no idea what to do now and what not to do. I needed at least more than five thousand dollars to buy my gown from Gucci or Prada. That was the minimum cost for my shopping.

I tried to refresh my banking account, standing ideal as people went in and went out while I paused there trying again and again to check my account details

I called mom and daddy but I knew better than they would never answer. It was always like that.

I chewed on my lower lips, a bad habit of mine as I tried to think what were the possibilities for me to be able to rescue myself from my frozen account crisis.

Debra, my shopfitter, came outside to confront me when she saw me hanging outside the shop.

As mom told me not to expose the Rutherford bankruptcy case, I just lied to her not feeling well and excused myself to head back home. She walked me to my car. I thanked her before going out.

In the midway, my stupid car ran out of gas and I could not help but shout at my fucking luck for the day.

Nothing was going right. First the very bad news, then a frozen account asset, and now my car out of gas.

Where the hell would I find a gas station now?? I parked it by the side and got out. The sun was shining so bright.

I wore my sunglasses as I started walking my way to home. Thanks to God,  it was not so far away from where I started off.

All these events in the very short period just made me think of how important money was and how life would be if there were not enough cash.

After a good long walking, with heels on my hands and sweat beads dancing on my forehead, struggling to breathe in the fresh air, I reached home.

Anna Maria saw me standing outside, leaning on the gate, trying to catch my breath.

"What happened, child?"

She asked, checking me out from top to bottom. I huffed for air before nodding my head to answer her.

"Just had a very bad day. My car ran out of gas and my banking assets were frozen. "

I replied to her in gaps between to breathe. I was really so tired. She understood how much I needed to get inside so she did not interrogate me any further and let me in.

I sat on the sofa, trying to calm my nerve after a good cool, and soothing shower, sipping on my lime soda, eventually checking my phone to get any kind of update regarding the crisis.

I went on surfing on the internet to see if the information had been leaked but there was none. Maybe they did a good job hiding the word from the press.

I found myself battling with my eyes to keep them open and did not realize when but I was fast asleep on the sofa.

I woke up only when Anna Maria woke me up, with a face that looked horrified. I rubbed my eyes trying to gain my senses but it left me speechless the next moment when I heard Anna.

"Señor and Señora got into a car accident."

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