Sold? Oh Please.

Jason eyes flew open, he raised his head and looked for the annoying alarm that kept ringing. His eyes searched for the the source of the sound and landed on his phone, 'huh I guess it's pretty strong' he thought. 

Grumbling he tried to stand up, after sleeping on the floor, in a sitting position with his knees to his chest and his head resting on them. His whole body shook with pain, today was going to be very uncomfortable. 

He walked to where the phone lay on the floor and picked it up, inspecting it he was even more assured of it's strength not a single scratch. He should buy this brand more often. 

He read the text again, the board meeting was by 10AM  right now it was seven. He had three hours, he should probably get to work as soon as he can to prepare for his father today. 

In less than an hour he was ready, and as he came downstairs his secretary Matt, was already waiting for him. 

"Good morning sir." Matt bowed.

"Good morning Matt, what are the stats looking like today?" Jason asked.

"Well sir everything seems bright and sunny today, but the day is going to be pretty hot, so I arranged for bigger car so you'll be taking the jeep. The agenda for today's board meeting is simply the quarterly statement report. And to discuss the sudden decline in shares." Matt informed him.

"Let's go, inform me the rest on the way. How were last weeks sales for the new perfume line?" Jason asked.

"They were surprisingly higher than expected, and the marketing team have suggested we have another advertisement with a popular celebrity. People voted on your fiancee Patricia Lee." Matt said as the elevator doors closed.

"Patricia Lee? They realise that the two families are business rivals right?" Jason frowned. 

"The point was brought up but..." he trailed off.

"But?"

"Many were persistently, saying it's best to show a truce between families and that she is your Fiancee afterall." 

Jason furrowed his brows and stepped out of the elevator. "They have no right insisting based on stupid reasons. Find another celebrity." He said firmly. 

Matt wanted to argue further but he also did not want a Lee endorsing any of the Kangs product. Who knows what they do with things they touch?

"Have you set meetings with the share holders yet?" Jason asked.

"Yes I made the effort and reached out, but many are wary of the idea of overthrowing the chairman." He stated as he pulled the door open and Jason stepped in. He walked to the front and got in and the driver drove away.

"Hmm."

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Jason kept shifting in his sit, sleeping on the floor did not sit well with him, besides this meeting was suffocating. He never cared for board meetings because all anyone ever did was try to impress his father, and now he couldn't even concentrate. His mind was on Jessie the entire time. Why couldn't he accept that she was gone? Why didn't he want to accept it? Could it be that he has grown attached to her in just two months? 

"CEO?" Jason looked up, all eyes were on him. He sighed and sat up straighter. "Can you repeat the question, I didn't get you."

"Actually it was the chairman that asked the question." The man pointed to his father.

Jason pursed his lip and looked to his left, where his father was sitting, at the head of the table. 

"I heard you are using Patricia Lee to model the new perfume line?" His father asked.

"You heard wrong father, I'm not doing that." He said firmly. 

"Why not? This is a perfect chance to show the world that the Kang and Lee families are making a business alliance." His father stated.

"Well there are the brides family, I believe they are to make the first move, besides the perfume business is all mine. And I make the final decision and my answer remains no." He frowned. 

His father narrowed his eyes at his son. If he pushed this further it would not end well for either of them. If the chairman forced this decision and Jason declines it would be undermining to him. But if he did and Jason agrees it would undermine Jason, either way one of them wouldn't come out unscathed and Jason knew this. So his father let it go and looked at his second son. "Jonathan your reports?" 

Jonathan nodded and the manager under him came and began to deliver the reports. For someone without business experience he did pretty well, and Jonathan's kept looking towards his brother to his reaction. But he wasn't even paying attention, was he really that unimportant? He worked hard to make sure Jason

acknowledged him as competition but he wasn't even looking at the screen.

Before long the meeting had ended and Jason was already out before anyone could even say hello. Paul also noticed his friends strange behaviour and was following close behind him.

As Jason walked into his office Paul was right behind him.

"Jason?" 

"Paul? You're here? You know you don't have to come for all this monthly board meetings right?" Jason said as he sat down behind his desk.

"I came because I was worried about you, I guess I made the right decision." He frowned. 

Paul and Jason both had shares in each others businesses, the two families were pretty close to each other.

"In what sense?" Jason asked.

"You're not acting like you normally do, I know you hate board meetings but you've never been distracted before. This is about Jessie isn't it?" Paul asked.

"And if it is?" Jason asked nonchalantly. 

Paul scoffed, "not even denying it anymore are you?"

"I don't see the reason to, besides why are you so invested in my feelings?" Jason asked, looking incredibly bored.

"Your feelings? You realise you are the person that always warned me about getting emotional involved with a woman that would be detrimental for my work right?" Paul asked. 

"And you point is?" Jason yawned, leaning on his desk.

"I'm sorry I'm I boring you?"

"Oh no, sorry I just didn't get enough sleep last night." Jason said. 

"My point is, you're doing the exact thing you warned me about. You have a woman that can basically make you the most powerful man in the country, down side she is a witch but that's a small price to pay for power. And isn't all you want to get enough power to bring Paradise out?" 

Jason eyes perked up when he heard Paradise, that indeed was a dream of his, infact it was his goal.

"So your saying I should put my emotions aside and marry Patricia so that I inherit the Kang empire and finally get Paradise out huh?" Jason said.

"Wasn't that always the plan? That's the only reason you agreed to marry that witch." Paul replied, sitting on the couch.

"But marrying Patricia isn't the only way to get the Kang empire." Jason said.

"What are you finally ready to go to the dark side?" Paul asked with a small laugh.

"Yes." Was Jason curt answer and Paul's smile was upturned. 

"You can't be serious. You promised you wouldn't become you father." 

"Yeah well, I feel like I'm inbetween a rock and a hard place. And the only way I can escape is foul play. Besides I need to be powerful enough to look down on the Lee's and never have to be wary of them." Jason said.

Paul shook his head, "so this is because of the Lee's? Do you really hate Patricia that much, or do you really love her that much? That you are willing to throw away your principles?" Paul asked.

Jason stared pointedly at him and didn't say anything. After everything yesterday, after every that had been going on for the past month, he could finally answer the biggest question on his mind. Why he cared so much for the actress? And he had never been so sure.

"Yes Paul, I love Jessie and I am willing to set this world on fire to get her back." He stated firmly. 

"Wow.. I never thought I'd ever see the day you would give up on your mother's memory for someone else." Paul replied, trying to open emotional wounds to get him to get out of this delusion.

"Look, I understand your concern but I believe I'm still fulfilling my mothers dream, she did tell me to do what ever I could to fight for love. At the time I couldn't understand her, I didn't even want to understand her because I was so angry at her for loving my father even though he didn't care about her. But now all I want is Jessie, I want her by my side as my woman." He said with a small smile. "To make that happen I need to destroy everything that makes her scared, angry and upset. I need to be strong enough to destroy her enemies. So that in the end the only thing that will be on her mind and in her heart is me." 

"You're in deep huh?" Paul asked staring intently at his friend.

"I am, and I am about to turn this world upside down to find her. The question now is will you help me?" Jason asked his friend. 

Paul scowled at him. "Do I have a choice?"