Chapter 2 II

ACE ROCCO'S P.O.V

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? I shouted at Jude, who is one of my employees.

He moved back quickly, probably scared at my outburst, as I looked at him angrily.

"Si...sir...sir.... I really don't know...." he said stuttered.

I gave him the 'Are you crazy look'.

"You don't know? Really? You are standing here telling me that you don't know, huh? What the hell is showing on the laptop screen?" I questioned as I turned the laptop to face him.

"Mr. Ace, it was a mistake, sir. We were scammed, sir. People were talking about the new organization, they even entrusted plenty of goods and I thought we working with them will also benefit the company. By the time I checked all the emails sent last week, I noticed that we had been blocked, and we had already invested goods worth half a billion with them and we...."

"Just shut the fuck up. I thought you could do this job better. How could you be so careless to the extent that you trusted a new organization with goods worth half a billion? Not even a million dollars? But a fucking whopping sum of five hundred thousand million dollars! Really, Mr. Jude? Really! Now my company will have to bear the loss. Did I make you my fucking director of affairs, so my money can keep wasting, Huh?" I yelled at him.

He looked down as he tried to avoid my eyes.

"You know what? You are fired. " I said angrily as I sat back on my chair.

He looked at me with shock written all over his face.

"Please Mr. Ace... I assure you I will get to the bottom of this. Please don't relieve me of my job..." He pleaded.

Mr. Jude is one of my best workers and that is why I made him the director of affairs since I am barely around because I do travel for business deals most times and might take two to three weeks before I get back, but for me to lose half a billion? That is a massive sum of money. It's really bad and I will use him to teach a lesson to my other workers.

Let no one think he or she is special.

Any mistake you do, I'm ready to cut you off from my company.

Well, I am the second child and first son of my family, Mr. and Mrs. Rocco. My mom and dad had a fatal accident that took their lives. My grandfather raised Me and my elder sister, Hannah.

My grandfather retired from being the CEO and handed over the company to me at the age of twenty-three.

For the past two years, that I have handled the company, the company profits have grown from 21% to 75%.

My elder sister owns a very large fashion hall.

She sells shoes, bags, clothes, clothes accessories and other fashion stuff.

Her company is quite big I must say, and she is the madam of her own.

My family's second name is money.

Whenever the Rocco's name is mentioned, you should know the level of respect that will be accustomed to it.

Because I am rich doesn't mean I am a bad guy.

I am actually a good guy, but women....

Those daughters of eve won't just stay away from me.

Some come to me because of my good looks, while some are after my money ...

Well, if you need my money, then you have to follow me to my hotel, and we can talk business there.

I know you must be thinking I am a playboy.

Yes, I agree, I am.

I am the number one Casanova in Italy.

I don't believe in love.

I don't want any woman to give me a headache.

I just want to live my life the way I want .

So back to the present.

I listened as he apologized.

"Jude, I give you one week for you to get my money my back, if not, you will know why people fear me." I said in an authoritative, calm tone and he nodded.

"I promise Mr. Ace, I will get your money back." he said and left my presence.

And just then my best friend, Daniel, came into the office.

"Hey...what's up bro?" Daniel said, coming to handshake me.

I shook hands with him as he sat on the chair facing my desk.

Daniel put his both legs on my desk and crossed them, I gave him the *are you mad * look and he chuckled.

"Did you buy anything in here? Get your filthy legs out of my desk" I ordered, trying to hit him as he quickly removed it and he chuckled.

"What's up buddy? You are sounding upset today. Did anything happen? What's wrong?" He questioned after he noticed my mood.

"Seriously... Jude signed a contract with some fraudsters. They ran away with the sum of five thousand million dollars." I informed him.

He looked at me with amusement in his eyes.

"Seriously man.I should have my team look into it for you." Daniel offered.

"Thank you. I will tell Mr. Jude to send you the details of everything."

"Alright dude. Anyway, I am here to tell you that we are going to the club Tonight." Daniel said rubbing his palm together while smirking.

"Okay Dan." I said.

"I can't wait to meet some hot chicks" Daniel grinned and I smirked.

Well, I really need to go to the club and get some drink into my system to clear my head from all this office scandal.

To be continued