02: Meeting

Today is the 4th of July, a very sad day for Mason.

“Good afternoon Boss” He heard a male voice with his steps disturbing his ears.

“Can't you stop being a nuisance?” He yelled at the man approaching with his cold voice sending fears into his spine immediately.

He doesn't care about people, He just lives in this world to maybe avenge his parent's death and after that, he will exit. Nothing interests him as he does say.

“I'm sorry boss, I came to tell you about the meeting, The board of directors and the companies to work with us have been waiting for like one hour and they are complaining” He mouthed shivering, almost peeing on himself.

Mason sighed in anger turning to the window side, looking at the outside view to prevent him from thinking, and about the board of directors, he intentionally made them wait because of their pride.

He can't let anyone come into his company and try to control him, it can not work even in his next life. He believes that making them wait will teach them a lesson.

They dare not leave without seeing Mason for the approval of the current projects, He is the King of New York as they call him, He has the most successful business there which made their economy stable and one of the things making New York stand is the taxes and revenues the company generate for them, Ooks Group of company alone taxes and revenues is enough to skyrocket their economy.

He looked over to his secretary who was still on his feet waiting for Mason to walk forward so he could follow.

“Are you sure all of the board of directors are there? Did they all arrive at the proposed time? ” He asked, he is willing to deal with any of them that aren't there or that arrive late.

“Almost all of them came before the meeting time but only the company to handle the fifth hotel furniture is unavailable” The secretary mouthed, He shifted his glasses up to be able to see well.

“They sent a message this morning but due to your order, I didn't check it, This is the message sir” The secretary stretched the iPad to Mason with his head bowed, he dared not look at Mason's face. The frown on Mason's face alone could depress a child and make an adult tremble at his feet.

Mason collected the iPad and scrolled up to see the message from the furniture company. A loud laugh escaped his mouth, making the secretary wonder what happened.

“So stupid” His laugh turned into a frown immediately. He threw the iPad at the secretary not minding if he would catch it or not. The secretary knows that he must catch it or else he wants to get fired.

“Let's go to the meeting and make sure you hold the iPad, You will read out the message to everyone in the meeting” He mouthed and picked up his jacket and threw it on before picking his steps one by one.

Everyone who met him on the way trembled in fear at his aura and walked steps alone. Greetings rain from different angles but he ignores as always.

** In the meeting hall**

Everyone was murmuring and complaining. They had been sitting down for more than one hour and nobody showed up to address them about the reason for the lateness.

“This is the highest of it, How dare he make me sit down and wait for him? His father was never like this” Mr Dennis, one of the sassiest of them all, is one of the oldest board of directors who once walked with Mr. Larry, Mason's father, and also was the closest manager to his father in the entertainment industry.

“You have the balls, If you know you couldn't wait without complaining you should have left the moment you came” Mason's voice came up making the hall silent immediately, The secretary opened the door for him. One step into the Hall everyone's head was bowed.

He walked towards the CEO's seat and sat down pulling off his jacket to give his secretary to hold.

All the board of directors and representatives of each company involved in the project sat down after him. His eyes went directly to a particular seat, the faces looked strange, The look on his face alone asked the question.

The representative stood up with a strange face.

“Good morning Sir, we heard that the furniture company dropped the project which made me bring my friend's furniture company alongside us. We are in a partnership contract” The representative uttered, almost shaking because he knows what Mason Brooks is capable of. He can order that they should be removed.

Surprise filled everyone's face as they heard his statement.

“You can sit down but make sure they sign the contract for the furniture today” His cold voice came up, and even his secretary was surprised.

“Let's go straight to the purpose of the meeting” He proposed returning the business atmosphere to the meeting hall.

The Zinc Company representative was the first to stand up.

“After the readjusting and rewriting, we have concluded that our company alone cannot handle the project due to a shortage of zinc materials. We then decided to work in hand with the Indriz Zinc Company located in Nigeria, but their branch here is the one we signed the contract with” He explained and waited for Mason's reply.

“You should know by now that I don't care whichever companies you partner with, My only concern is that the Zinc should be provided at the required amount and quality” Mason replied looking at the representative with his emotionless gaze.

The representative sat down silently and closed the contract book.

“Everyone should forward the whole estimate of materials needed and the amount to my secretary, I will look over it and get back to everyone” Mason mouthed and stood up.

“The meeting has finally come to an end, Thank you” He collected his jacket and walked out.

Another round of murmuring begins as all exit the meeting room one by one.

****

Mason got to his office and sat down dejected as he reminisced about his ex-fiancee. If she was still with him, he would have been eating a delicious lunch by now but what can he do other than order food?

“What should I order for you Sir, it's lunch time” He heard his secretary's voice. He was about to reject it again when his stomach rumbling got louder.

“Just get me a burger and fries. You must get it here before five minutes if you don't want to get fired” He threatened.

He heard his secretary chuckle from afar. He was supposed to smile if it was some years back but now even the chuckle made him angry.