Chapter 8
" But mother I really do not want to do this, and I really do not like him either." Jasmine whined as they headed for the city.
" You will do as I tell you to do, and you will not ruin my plans to get what I want, do I make myself clear." Lucinda gave Jasmine a warning look that she means business.
Then only thing that Jasmine could do was nod her head and not to argue with her mother, or she did not want to think of the punishment that Lucinda will do to her if she did not do what she said, and her thoughts went to her step-sister who was locked up in the basement of her childhood home.
" Why can I not got with you for your meeting today." Jasmine whined again just as they pulled up to the office building that now belongs to Lucinda.
" Because I need you to do a few things for me here, and I will mostly be with Martin and you do not need to be with us, because this meeting only involves two people, if you understand what I am telling you?" Lucinda gave her oldest a very knowing smile.
" Mother! You should not be telling me that you are still having sex, well good luck on your so called meeting, and please mother I really do not want to be with that guy. He is to good, how about the other brother he is a couple of years old and he is just like his father and he is also the Vice-President of the Company while the younger brother does not even work with them and he is way lot younger than me too." Jasmine gave her mother one more begging look before she opened the car door.
" I will think about it, but I want you to have one date and try to get some information from him on whatever he does." Lucinda nodded to her daughter as she would think about what she had asked her.
Jasmine got out of the car and headed into the building and Lucinda drove off to another office building that is located on the other side of town.
Lucinda pulled into the parking lot of the business that is owned by the person that she wanted to see. Once she parked the car she got out of the car then made her way across the parking lot. Walking into the building and walked across the lobby and headed for the desk.
" Good morning and can I help you." the young lady looked up from her computer as she saw Lucinda standing over her desk.
" Yes you may please tell Mr. Brooks that I would like to see him." Lucinda looked around the young girl's desk as she was trying to find some stuff that she could use against the owner of the business gets in her way of what she wants, and that is Cinderella's business.
" I'm sorry ma'am but you cannot see him, because he is in a meeting and will be in it all day, I can make an appointment for you for tomorrow afternoon." the younger girl looked at her appointment calendar for an empty time slot.
" I need to see him now, and I will not leave here until I see him, now you better let him know am here." Lucinda leaned slightly forward and gave the girl a warning look.
" I see, well let me give you a word of advice Mrs. . . . you cannot and will not threaten me, and no I will not disturber Mr. Brooks, for you or for anybody, now you can either make an appointment for tomorrow afternoon, or I will call the police to have you remove from here thee choice is yours." the young lady looked up at Lucinda and gave her a warning look too.
" Fine." Was all Lucinda said before she turned away from the desk and began heading down the hallway until she came across the office of the person that she wanted to see.
Lucinda opened the door and walked right into the room without knocking.
" Excuse me but you are interrupting a meeting Mrs. Carson." James looked up and saw Lucinda standing behind the three people who was in front of him.
" I will talk to you now, and I will not leave here until you listen to what am going to tell you." Lucinda walked further into the room.
" I will not have you talk to me this way and you better leave now." James stood up from his desk.
" All I can say is I know that Cinderella was to have dinner with you, but she never showed up at the restaurant." Lucinda gave him a look that told him that she knew something else about Cinderella.
" Everybody we will continue this meeting in a few minutes, ok Lucinda you have five minutes and then after that I will have you arrested for harassment." James nodded to his workers and waited for them to head out of the room before he told Lucinda how long she has before the police got there.
The three people all stood up and left the office and just stood in the hallway and waited until it was time for them to head back into the room and finish up their meeting.
" Ok you better start talking, what do you want and what do you know about Cinderella." James sat back down at his desk.
" Well the first thing is that this Friday you will take my daughter Jasmine out for dinner and if you refuse to what am telling you, then I will not tell you about Cinderella, do you understand me." Lucinda glared at him and also gave him a very evil look.
" What did you do to her and what do you know where she is?" James looked up at the crazed woman and hoping that she would tell him where Cinderella was.
" You still have to answer me about taking my oldest daughter out for dinner, and like I told you before, you will take her out." Lucinda began to walk around the room and looking at the stuff that James had in his office.
" Fine, now tell me what do you know about Cinderella." James looked down because he knew that the only way to get her out of his office it to do whatever she asks.
" Well the only thing I can tell you is that yesterday I needed to talk to Cinderella but all I got was her voice mail, so then I called Olivia and she told me that Friday Cinderella left and did not tell where she was going, and the only place that I could think of is the beach house." Lucinda looked straight at James and she knew that what she was telling him was all a lie that she and her oldest daughter knew where Cinderella was and it was not at the beach house.
" I see well you came here for what you wanted so now you can leave or I will call the police." James looked at Lucinda and he hid the fact that he knew that she was lying to him.
Lucinda nodded her head and then headed out of the room and pushed pass the workers on her way out of the office and she headed down the hallway and out of the building. Then she got into her car and headed off to her other appointment which involves James' father.
James and his workers continued the meeting for the day and by the end of the day he called the police and reported Cinderella missing and he also told them that he believed that Cinderella's step-mother was involved with her disappearance so all he could do now was wait to see what will happen.
