My One And Only

When the lift finally did open up on the thirtieth floor, both Madi and Kian got out of it.

His right-hand knuckles were bleeding and the white handkerchief was not doing much to stop the bleeding.

Everyone turned to look at the pair as Kian walked to his offices like a ragging tornado and Madi followed him behind.

The employees and board members greeted him but he paid no attention. Madi smiled at them on his behalf.

When Kian pushed open the glass door to his office, Valeria was already there sitting on the head chair.

“You are late.”

She said.

“Does it matter now?? I recall I m only here to resign. ”

Kian replied with a straight face, not reverting his eyes from Valeria who was looking at him to dare.

“We could solve this with a cool mind and in a matured way.”

Madison barged in between, trying to calm both the parties down. It was only them present in the huge office but soon they would be joined by the lawyers and officers from the stock market.

“You disappointed me, Madison. I thought you to be different and civil than the stunt you pulled.”

Valeria gritted her teeth, referring it to Madison who reverted her gazes down to the white floor, ashamed of her drunkard action.

“I’m really sorry for it, Mrs Wilson.”

“You need not apologize, Madison. It was to come out to the public this way or the other way. ”

Kian interrupted her even before she could start with her apology. It irked Valeria to watch her nephew so turned against him.

No wonder the bitch did lure him in her dark magic spells very deep and there was no returning from it if she did not pull the strings to make him see that he was nothing without her and the Wilson name.

“We should not delay then. Let’s start with the paperwork.”

Valeria declared and clapped her hands for the attorneys general and the stack holder members to get in.

Line by line all the men in black suits appeared. Madison stood by Kian’s side, trying very hard to control his temper.

All she wanted at the moment was to be done with the resignation civilly and that good professional behaviour would help them in securing investors in their new firm.

“I denounce my nephew, Kian Wilson, now Randall from the post of Cheif Executive Officer of Wilson Oil and Industries. ”

“You do not denounce me, Valeria. I m stepping down on my own accords. ”

Kian cut his aunt short. And all the members in the office room could see the tension and anger between the nephew and aunt with their own naked eyes.

The bond of unity that they used to share was long gone. Now all they had was bad blood.

“It’s the same thing. Let’s get done with the paper works.”

Madison stepped in, indicating the attorneys from both sides to showcase their files.

“It’s not the same thing, Madison. She is not denouncing me but I m stepping down… I m resigning because I will not sit and watch her treat my wife like some insignificant pawn in her game of power.”

“Your wife??? I render her not even insignificant, Kian… she is a nobody to my eyes.”

Valeria spat, with venom in her eyes directed to Kian. The board members could not stop gossiping about the scene unfolding before them.

“After everything, I did for you and after everything you did to her, you still have the courage and dare to stand like that as if you have done nothing wrong at all??

How could you be so passive and biased??”

Kian questioned, raising his voice. It roared in the hall. Madison had no idea how to neutralise the environment in any way. The situation was getting out of hand.

“I’m biased??? Am I??? Or was I biased with you?? I have given you everything from my name to riches when you had nothing, Kian…. you were an orphan. I raised you like my own…”

“Only because you had none as your own, Valeria. ”

Kian hit her right on the end, silencing everyone in the room completely. Madison facepalmed herself.

There was no returning from this. Everything just had gone down the gutter.

“And if you have not read the agreement papers, it is I still who owns everything starting from the oil to the companies, the houses, the properties… the vineyards… everything.

You named all of that after me when your late husband gave it to me.

But here, I m willingly stepping down. I m resigning from everything I own… under my name, not the other way around. ”

Kian elaborated vehemently. Under no circumstance, would he allow to feed more of Valeria’s ego?

If he was going to leave, he was going to make sure that he had left of his own will and that not because someone snatched everything away from him, handed it to him in a golden platter.

“All you and your husband had was the oil from your ancestor. It is I who built the rest. In these fifteen years, I had invested every bit of my sweat to a place where the Wilson industries stand now. ”

The members nodded in approval. It was the truth. It was Kian who upgraded the position of the company from a mere state rich to an international and global rich.

“Why does it matter now??? Nothing was yours, to begin with… everything that you built… it started from the thing that got handed to you on a golden platter… including that name.”Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

Valeria stroke hard and her manager came forward to silence her. He informed them of the arrival of Mr Harrington.

Kian’s furry increased to no end. He surely would have knocked that bastard down, slamming his back on the wall for even daring to step inside the office he had built but Madison walked forward, holding onto his hand, trying to calm him down.