38 I Feel So Useless 2 (1/2)

Liam was startled when he heard his brother's revelation. ”Did you say Samantha is the CEO of Trident Company?”

Daniel didn't respond, he continued to read the documents in his hands. Liam saw how Daniel's expression was and he knew he was truly angered.

When they started this project, Daniel assigned it to his brother Liam. So all the biddings and details were mostly handled by him. He trusted his brother so much that he only had to decide some matters that are very important. As to which company joins and wins the bidding, other information and proposals, it was Liam who handled them.

Samantha never mentioned anything about joining the bidding. And Daniel didn't think about talking business with Samantha. Thus, it was the first time that he has heard about it.

Liam was shocked by this piece of information. Samantha owns the company that is currently in the rocks, what's more, her company joined the bidding and both he and Daniel didn't even realize it. He even thought about disqualifying Trident; how could he allow a thief to join their project? Although he wouldn't decide right away because he planned to have the matter investigated first, the thought about kicking his sister-in-law's company out of the bidding sent shivers down his spine. He couldn't imagine what Daniel would do to him if that happened.

Daniel went to his office and asked his assistant to look into everything regarding Trident, the article and whoever was behind this.

Assistant Ahn was quick this time, he gathered everything in less than an hour. With Samantha's skills in keeping company matters private, Daniel wasn't able to get a lot of information that would somehow indicate that Trident was in the wrong. Of course, he also believed that they would never do something like stealing software programs.

When Daniel saw the documents, he didn't truly understand what he was feeling at the moment. He was mad at Quantum Solutions for doing dirty tactics not just to Trident but to the other competitors who joined the bidding as well. Though there weren't enough evidence as of the moment that says Quantum was the one behind it, with what Daniel had heard several months ago about Quantum's underhand dealings, it wasn't hard to connect the dots. And the fact that Trident had entered the bidding but Samantha didn't tell him about it, made him feel unsettled.

'Why would she keep it from me?', he wondered.

These things happened under his nose, his girlfriend's company is attacked because of Cho Corporation's project. And the worst feeling he thought is probably that Samantha kept it all to herself, enduring this mess. This was a problem that Daniel believed Samantha should've told him. She shows herself in front of Daniel as if she didn't have any problems at all.

'You dare to smile in front of me like that? How deceitful.'

Feeling vexed and dejected, Daniel dialed Samantha's number. She picked up after a few rings.

”Where are you?” He asked without waiting for her to say anything.

”Um... I'm at the office. Why?”

At first, he thought of talking to her on the phone about what he discovered but he didn't want to give her the opportunity to 'lie' and 'get away' with it.

”Can I go there?”

Samanthas was confused about why Daniel wanted to come to her office, he hasn't been there before but she didn't reject him. ”S-sure. You can come through the private elevator, I'll ask my assistant to meet you at the underground parking.”

Daniel hung up the phone right after, his actions made Samantha worry. She felt like something bad was about to happen.

When Daniel Cho arrived at the company, he had some papers on his hands. Assistant Chen led Daniel straight to Samantha's office. As soon as they arrived, Chen asked if Daniel wanted something to drink but he just shook his head, Samantha felt something unsettling so she asked her assistant to leave them and not to be disturbed.

”We just saw each other earlier... Did you want to talk about something?”, Samantha stood up from her chair but before she could take a step further, Daniel placed some papers on her desk with a little force.