Deadly Poison

Chapter 3

"What should I do? Should I meet them immediately?" Zia did not expect Leigh response. She thought that the younger might get annoyed at her for thinking of her as someone who can be offered to anyone else anytime just for the sake of everyone, especially the company that they are trying to survive. But maybe, just maybe, Leigh was so mature already to not think about it and rather think of the positive outcome it could be done to them.

Zia gulped and looked at Leigh directly, the latter did the same when she felt Zia's eye were stared at her. "I'm sorry, Leigh, but you don't have to do this actually. We... we can think of a better—"

"I don't think we can still think of a better plan, better than that. As of now, that's the good move and the least thing we can do especially we are running out of time," Leigh cut Zia's words with hers, her seriousness was visible on her tone, her facial expressions says that she was not joking and every words that were coming out of her mouth was true and she intentionally want to do it.

Zia sighed again and scratched her head. She does not know what to feel or how to react, she should be grateful about Leigh's decision and about her not getting mad, but she was anxious after all. Her behavior and actions that night screams anxiousness. Zia was scratching her head while changing her gazes from Leigh to the grass and back to Leigh and to the grass again.

"What should I do, Zia? Should I call them? Set up a meeting with them?" Leigh questioned but Zia was still silent, she does not know what to say.

"Don't think that I am mad. I am not mad and will never be mad. Yes, I admit what you thought was a kind of ridiculous thing to do, but that is our last card, our last option. All of my life i did not expect this thing to happen, this arranged marriage thing just happens in a book, a fairytale. But our problem and what our currently facing right now is not a mere fairytale, it should be done with a good decision and plan because one wrong move and everything will follow, unless we are super knowledgeable, like dad, when it comes to business," Leigh explained. Zia thought of it and realized her sister got a point.

"Ever since dad adopted me, and all of you accepted me, i already have decided that I will follow everything he and you will say. Dad has been so good to me, the family has been so good to me ever since. I did not feel I was just an adopted child because you made me really feel i was your blood-related family. So I think it's time to give something back for the family,"

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"Leigh!" A shout from downstairs echoed the entire house, Leigh was stepping down on their long cleared stairs. Their stair has a transparent tile where every step you make you can see what is below you, the handle was a a crystal type, a bit transparent but you can't clearly see the back of it. Everything in their house screams money, wealth, and power.

"Zia? Why?" Leigh asked as she step her foot on the last step on the stair. She saw Zia sitting on their khaki colored couch and went closer to her. "I already set up a meeting with them. So it will be tomorrow at 7 in the evening. We're going to have dinner with them so make a good impression, dress good, okay? I want them to look at you as someone elegant because you really are," Zia said and tucked Leigh's hair at the back of her ear. Leigh slightly furrowed her furrowed and smiled awkwardly at Zia, seemed like she did not agree to what Zia said about elegance.

"You knew I'm not that really elegant, I just tried to act one, " She explained that made Zia shook her head as a sign of disapproval. The latter also picked a strawberry on her bowl filled with strawberry and bit on it.

"Who said you are not? You're the most elegant girl I have seen. Well, I have seen some girls or women who looks elegant but you know... " Zia went closer to her a bit and whispered ".. they are trying hard, but you, you are the epitome of it," Leigh also shook her head because Zia was being ridiculous, she seemed drunk, yes drunk but not because of an alcohol, but due to her strawberry.

The day passes so fast. Leigh found herself afternoon, on the same day when they should meet that family she does not know yet, finding a good dress for the... let's say a dinner meeting or a dinner meet up with them. She got a lot to choose from, her options the green dress, the skirt was above the knee and a sleeveless one. It good and it's pretty but she does not want to wear green even though there were some diamonds worth 100 thousands dollar each.

The second one was a red dress. A heart shaped at the chest, with white long sleeve, made of silk, for the skirt part the slit was in between her legs and not located at the side of her legs.

Out of like 20 dresses she could choose from, she choose the navy blue dress. It was a strapless dress, below the knee length, slit at the side, made of silk, does not have something to shine, it was just simple. But what made her choose it was the somehow look like a net circled on the dress' chest and extend up to the arms, and that net made it look like a strap for her right arm.

"Good choice. I like that too," Zia complimented her dress as she took it out from its bag and hanged it on a hanger and keep it on her closet. "You haven't told me yet about them," Zia widened her eyes and dropped her jaw as she realized she haven't really told her about them. She was busy thinking about Leigh and forgot about it.

"Oh.... i'm so sorry! But I think you knew them because the president and CEO of it once visited in the company for a meeting, I judt realized it yesterday. They were the owner of the Flox Cybersecurity Company. And their son, Camero Flox, was the head, I think sooner or later he will also become the CEO because his father is getting old. And as far as i know he could run the company completely because he studied and finished both cybersecurity degree and business management,"

Leigh blinked her eyes repeatedly as Zia continued to tell her about Camero. And really, that guy, is the man who could become. By Zia's story telling, she thought that Camero is a wise and intelligent man, as well as handsome, she thought. But that makes her intimidated by him.

What if Camero wouldn't accept the offer? What will be their plan b?