"How strange," the collector muttered as he looked at the report before him.
On the file was a picture of Ethan Carter, and according to the latest report, their little spy seemed to have an issue with two of the sons of the Smiths and he was fixing it pretty well.
The report showed that he had done a couple of withdrawals to help the restaurant get back on its feet and also become a sponsor for the Newton Academy where he previously worked.
And all that was fine...
The strange part was that he had been spotted with OmniTech’s COO, even before she became one, specifically just a few weeks before she became a COO.
Now this could either be a dog smelling a big fat bone, a coincidence or there was something else ongoing.
The Collector placed a hand on his chin before turning to the man that stood before him and ordering, "dig deeper into our little spy, I feel like he might be hiding a secret or two and I hate secrets."
"Right away sir," the man muttered and left the collector alone in the office, a second later, his assistant, a woman with golden blonde hair walked in.
She had no expression on her face, though that was mostly because she feared him, which he didn’t mind.
Fear was good, It kept people in check whenever he wanted to.
"So," He started with a smile on his face, "how far are you with buddy-ing up with OmniTech’s COO?"
Olivia looked at him for a second before replying, "she seems to trust too easily, almost as if she’s naive."
"That’s a good thing then," The collector said with a wide smile, "after all, her circle of friends is not that impressive and her only friend just moved to California, so she will be looking for another to lean on."
Olivia was silent for a while, before asking, "my mother’s —" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
"Don’t worry about that," the collector muttered, "we just got her a Vitaband, so we should easily know what’s wrong and we’ll commence treatment when you successfully infiltrate OmniTech."
Olivia looked at him for a while before moving her eyes to the floor.
"What?" The collector asked, "his tech works pretty well, and it’s not like I hate him not to buy them."
"Besides," he continued, "they’re technological breakthroughs I can’t miss out on, after all, it’ll take a while for us to successfully clone it."
That wasn’t the reason behind her look, but she didn’t dare correct him, after all, he was a man of his word.
If she showed results, then her mother’s treatment will commence.
"I’ll take my leave," she muttered before turning to the door after the collector nodded.
***
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN DEMOTED?!" Chad screamed through the phone as he was contacted by HR.
He was supposed to be on paid ’leave’ so he never expected to get a call from his company while he was on it.
But instead of an emergency, they had called to inform that he had been demoted to basically errand boy and it wasn’t just for anyone.
It was for the kid he looked down upon, Arun.
"Even if you wanted to tell me this bullshit," Chad continued fuming, "couldn’t you have just sent it through mail?"
"We’re sorry," the person on the other end apologized, "but the CEO personally requested we call and inform you directly."
"..the CEO?" He repeated.
As far as he knew, he hadn’t offended the CEO or any of the higher ups, so why target him like this?
Was this the work of someone else? Maybe Ethan? No, that was absurd.
Even if Ethan Carter truly worked for OmniTech Corp, there was no way he would have enough reach to influence Chad’s company.
"You’re expected to return to the company on Monday to finalize the change in department," the lady of the other end informed and before he could say anything, the call was ended.
"Fuck!" He cursed as he threw the phone to the other end of the hotel room, "what the fuck is even happening right now?"
He paced around the room trying to think of which bug wig he might’ve offended but he came up blank.

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