Mr Jones sat on his sofa, twirling a glass of wine in thought.
He could not get into Mr Hugh's home, and Mr Bono was in coma, then how was he going to achieve his selfish dream of becoming the number one businessman on the chart.

He had tried to get into Anton's home using a chef, but Anton was undoubtedly smart.

The interview had a polygraph and a tech wiz.
Anton knew that a polygraph wasn't the best bet because it was 87-90% correct, so he added a tech wiz, supposedly the best in the country, but turns out he wasn't the best since he couldn't see through the fake identity Luther made for Mia.
While Robert focused on the polygraph, the tech wiz did a background check on each of the applicants.

Mr Jones had sent three people, two males and a female to apply for the job, but they were useless.
The males couldn't cheat a polygraph, while the lady who could, her identity didn't match up.

After the practical interview, Anton went to see the fakes.
He had initially planned a painful beating for them but later decided not to react violently.
All this was getting old, couldn't they just give up, many of his rivals were up to get him but he had outsmarted them a thousand of times but they were just persistent.

He told them

"Tell whoever sent you, that CEO Hugh sent his greetings, and tell them that they should be smart before trying to outsmart me. Like aren't they tired, this whole thing is getting old"

"I will allow you to walk out of this room alive and void of bruises, but if you try coming back for one of this schemes, I promise you would wish for death but you won't find it.
And also, don't forget i have your real details and real identity, so if by mistake I see you anywhere around..." He let his deliberate pause, say what he wanted to say "...and trust me when I say I can be ruthless and inhuman at times"

Some of the 'fakes' were literally shaking out of fear right now

He decided to add a burner

"And trust me, your families wouldn't be spared either, so next time before you accept any stupid contract to work against me, think on this"

Anton smirked and walked out, this was more satisfying than beating them; just a few words and they were already trembling like chickens caught outside on a rainy day.

*** *** ***
Emily told Mia that Mr Hugh was home that afternoon.
Things had changed with time, Emily and Mia became close, not actually for Mia; to Mia she was just a nice lady who she got information from.

"Hey, how are you?" Emily said as she saw Mia on her usual stroll.

"I'm okay. Where have you been, I checked on you but didn't see you"

"Mr Hugh is home today, we had to clean his study"

"He is home?"

"Yes"

"But he didn't request lunch"

"Maybe he isn't hungry"

"Yeah maybe"

Twenty minutes later, Mia was in the kitchen making coffee.
She wasn't going to let go of this opportunity.
For weeks now, she didn't know how to go about entering his study room but now the opportunity presented it self, she was at least going to take a peek at the room to know how to make plans because she knew she could only get in by sneaking.

The coffee she was making wasn't on Mr Hugh's request, she was just using it as a means to get to his study.

The problem at hand now was that she didn't know how he liked his coffee, with milk or without milk, with sugar or without sugar.

Whatever!
She added both milk and sugar.

*knock*

Anton was surprised when he heard the knock, because no one came to meet him in his study except Robert and he knew Robert was at a meeting on his behalf right now.

He checked the camera at the door and was surprised when he saw Mia standing at the door with a tray of coffee in her hand.

He quickly got up and unlocked the door.

"Good afternoon sir, I brought you coffee"

"Thank you but you didn't have to, I didn't send for it"

"I just did it out of consideration sir"

"Okay thanks, but next time don't bother, besides I make my coffee myself; black, no sugar but this is okay by the way"

He had a coffee maker in his study room.

Mia felt irritated that they had something in common; she also had her coffee black.
She wasn't on a diet or something, she just hated sugar.

Unlike every other girl, she hated candy, chocolate, flowers, pink color, romantic poems and the rest of it; she was kind of weird.

"I didn't know sir" she looked up taking slight peeks at the room

"Its okay"

She nodded and excused herself.

Anton couldn't hide the smile on his face, he was happy that she did something, like made an approach, no matter how little it was.

Mia went back to the kitchen and prepared another cup of coffee; black as he said, she wasn't going to give up now.

Anton sat contemplating if he should drink the coffee or not, he was thinking about his stomach, he wasn't used to taking this kind of coffee so he knew it was going to upset his stomach.

While contemplating if he should risk it or not, he heard a knock on the door.
Checking the camera it revealed that it was Mia, he got up and opened the door

"Greetings again sir, I made another cup of coffee just the way you want it, black, no sugar, no milk"

"You didn't have to, but anyways thank you" he stretched his hand to collect the tray but she brushed past him into the room and went straight to his table to drop it and take the other one, while surveying the room.

She picked up the other tray and made her way to the door where Anton stood not knowing what to say to her.

'How mannerless' he said inwardly, but deep down he like the attitude.

Mia just nodded past him not bothering to apologize, well she didn't do anything wrong by helping him, did she?

Anton looked at her retreating figure until she took a turn so he couldn't see her.
He sat down watching her through the cameras.
She disposed off the coffee and went out but Anton continued following her through the cameras.

As she passed the guard quarter, a guard who was bold enough to like this lady despite her feisty look, he wasn't just bold enough to like her, he was brazen enough to approach her.

As Mia walked past him like she didn't see him, obviously she did but was she supposed to greet him or what? he made his move.

"Hey"

Deaf ear.

"Hello"

Deaf ear.

"Miss Natasha"

He had made some inquiries about her from Emily.

Still a deaf ear.

He began walking faster to catch up with her because her strides were really large, creating a measure of distance between them.

"Hey miss, just want to talk to you for a minute"

Another deaf ear.
Well this was the typical Mia.

Anton watched with furrowed brows

'What did this low life think he was trying to do'

Mia heard him call her, but she was not in for any stupidity.

As brazen as this young fellow was, he walked quickly and got to her, he grabbed her left arm as a way of getting her to stop walking and give him attention.

Out of impulse, Mia turned her left hand, now holding his arm, turned it to his back and squeezed it angrily, his pained scream clothed the air but this lady wasn't done yet.
To add the finishing touches, she hit his spine with her elbow and kicked his knees, causing him to lift off the ground and then she let go of his twisted arm.

He fell on the floor, like a bag of flour.
All this happened in a span of ten seconds.

She squatted down facing the guard who now had a cut on his right cheek and blood from his mouth

"Some guard you call yourself, tch tch" she mocked

"Also never touch me, I hate being touched"
And with that she walked away.

Anton's eyes were still wide in shock, 'did he just see that?'

He recalled the night when she almost punched him, was this what she would have done to him?
He didn't want to believe it.

Now about the guard, Anton made a phone call of about 10 seconds and automatically that brazen guard got fired.
Apparently he was useless, for a lady to get him down within ten seconds, what use was he to anyone.

So much for just trying to hit on a lady.

Anton became a bit scared of her, her resumé didn't indicate that she was a martial artist, but hey she was one.

Mia didn't want to deal with that guard, she didn't want to be violent nor did she want anyone to know she was a fighter, but all that she did was out of impulse.

How dare he touch her?

Despite what she did, she wasn't a bit sorry, he deserved it and more worse.

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