Chapter 9

Nina was standing by the sink drying her hands when she heard the commotion and it was the voice that she has dreaded all her life and the worst part of it now was her mother was giving Sandy hell, but the only good thing is Sandy could give Lucinda the crap right back at her.

Nina threw away the paper towel before going to the restroom door and opened it and walked out and stopped at Sandy's desk just in time to see her mother storm down the hallway and stop at James' office and went inside the office and saw three people come out of the office.

" Hey Sandy I am so sorry that you had to deal with her, I would love to know why she is here in the first place." Nina watched the people just standing there out in the hallway waiting for James call them back into the office so they can resume their meeting.

" Hey Nina, I cannot believe that woman is your mother." Sandy just shook her head and feeling very sorry for the young lady that was standing in front of her desk.

" That is one thing I wish she was not." Nina also shook her head and began heading down the hallway to where the three people were standing.

Nina nodded to the three people before going to the door and slowly opening the door just a crack so that way she could hear what was being said and she could not believe that her mother lied to James about not knowing where Cinderella was, no wait she knew that her mother would really do something just like what she is doing all along because she is a wicked witch.

When Nina saw Lucinda starting to leave she closed the door and ran over to the empty office next door. She waited a couple of minutes before walking out of the room and following the other three people into James' office and found their seats again and continued the meeting where they had left off.

" Thank you for letting me sit in on your meeting today and I will let Cinderella know what the plans are for the projects that you want her to see." Nina put her stuff into her bag that she had with her.

" It was not a problem, and it is I who should be saying thank you, am just so sorry that Cinderella could not be here for the meeting. Well next Thursday I do have a meeting with one of the Doctors and Cinderella so hopefully I will see her then." James looked away from Nina, because he did not want her to know that he was really worried about Cinderella and he is hoping that where ever she was he just hoped that she was ok.

" James I know that you are worried about Cinderella, and I also know that she is missing." Nina looked at James and saw that he was worried about her step-sister, but she also saw fear too.

" So do you have any idea where she could be Nina?" James looked back at Nina, who was still sitting in front of his desk.

" Am sorry to say no I have no idea where she could be, but I do have this feeling that my mother is involved with her disappearance and I think she also had Jasmine to help her too." Nina stood up and picked up the bag that she had sat down in the chair that was next to her.

" May I ask you just how much of the conversation that your mother and I had before you came in here?" James also stood up from his desk.

" All of it, and I cannot believe that she would threaten you like she did, no wait yes I do believe she would do something like this, and also demand that you take Jasmine out to dinner the nerve of that witch." Nina shook her head in disbelief.

" I know I should not have given into her like I did, but I just wanted her out of here, I also get this feeling that she is up to something, but what could that be." James walked around his desk to where Nina was standing by the door.

" Well you are right about one thing, she is up to something and I do know one thing she is after Cinderella's business, and she may have told Jasmine to spy on you and to get some kind of information out of you about any kind of projects that you may be working on, so whatever you do, do not talk about work." Nina warned James in what her mother could be planning.

" Thanks for the warning, well would you like to join me for lunch." James walked out of the office with Nina.

" I would love to have lunch with you." Nina smiled at James at they stood there in the hallway just long enough for James to lock the office door.

James locked the office door, and the one thing that Nina said about Lucinda trying to get information about what is going on his business and even in Cinderella's business too. He was glad that he did come back to the office and grabbed the files that he was working on and coping onto flash drives, and then making up false reports and putting them into the files and putting them back into the desk drawer and locking it up, and the bad thing was he had this feeling that his father was also involved with something with Lucinda.

After lunch James called Sandy and told her that he would not be in the office for the rest of the day and that he would be back in the office on Wednesday. He got into his car and headed over to his house and changed his clothes and got into his other car, because he had a feeling that the car that he was driving was bugged. He drove off and headed for his winter house so that way he could hide all the real files that he had taken from his office last night, and put them in the hidden safe. Once he knew that everything was safe he left the house and headed into the small town and had dinner before heading back to the house and relaxing before going to bed.