A POWERFUL SON-IN-LAW

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This morning, Daren was standing in front of the company owned by the Hoodie family, and luckily he already had a new shirt that Jackob had given him. So, Daren didn’t need to embarrass himself to meet his new colleagues.

“Who are you?” asked the security guard just as he saw Daren step into the company.

Daren turned his head. With a friendly smile, he immediately showed his ID Card.

“I’m the new CEO of this company, is there anything wrong with that?” Daren asked.

The security guard seemed confused. How could he not, he knew that the CEO of the company owned by the Hoodie family was Miles. Without any meetings or anything else, how could suddenly on this bright morning the CEO change? Because as far as security guards knew, Miles was an ambitious leader who will definitely continue as CEO, even if possible forever.

“Excuse me, is Young Master Hoodie chronically ill and needs quite a lot of time to recover?” asked the security guard.

Daren shook his head perfectly, because Miles wasn’t sick at all.

“No, he is healthy, and he can walk very well. He can even run if he wants.”

“Or maybe Young Master Hoodie was away somewhere for quite a long time so you came to replace him? Who are you? Why have I never seen you before in the Hoodie family?”

“My name is Daren Wiles, I am the grandson-in-law of the Hoodie family. And I never show myself, so rarely anyone knows about me.”

“Which company did you work for before, sir? Why is the name Wiles quite familiar?”

“No, I didn’t work anywhere before. I did not own nor I did lead any company.”

“Are you crazy?” said the security officer. “How can people who have no experience be trusted to run a company?”

Daren smiled again, while blinking his eyes he said, “You’ll see, whether I’m capable enough or not at all.”

Daren stepped in, a woman in work clothes who was quite sexy walked over to Daren. Daren pulled his eyebrows together, until the woman bowed quite significantly.

“Welcome to the company, Mr. Wiles. I hope you enjoy working here.”

Daren was silent for a moment, Mr. Wiles? Didn’t Daren introduce himself yesterday as Daren Hoodie, so how could the woman in front of him even call him Mr ... Wiles?

“Sorry, don’t you think you have said something wrong, Miss?” Daren asked to clarify everything.

The woman smiled quite sweetly, then shook her head perfectly.

“I’m Cassandra. Actually I’m not a secretary at this company, sir. I was ordered by Mr Materna to accompany you, on the grounds that as one of the conditions of the Wiles family company there must be a representative working here. Because Mr. Materna couldn’t help you here, so he asked me to replace him.”

Daren immediately looked away, then he took a deep breath after making sure that everything was fine.

“I didn’t expect Jack to be this cute, thank you very much for coming and once again, call me Mr. Hoodie. You know about that, don’t you?”

“Yes sir. Sorry if I accidentally called you Mr. Wiles, because I heard you introduce yourself as Daren Wiles to the security guard outside.”

“Because I’m sure that if they don’t know me. It’s different if you call me like that, my identity will easily be revealed, do you understand?”

“Yes, I understand, sir.”

“So where do I work?”

“On the twenty-fourth floor, I deliberately chose that floor with some room decorations that you like. And of course all my requests were immediately approved by this company, on the pretext that if I wanted to accompany your work and see how the new CEO was doing, they wouldn’t be suspicious. But I’m sure they were the same, they were curious about your performance. However, I have heard from Mr. Materna how you are doing, I am sure you will get whatever you want.”

“I stopped working a long time ago, my performance must be quite stiff. More than that, my attitude is very old-fashioned at work, Miss. So I hope you won’t be easily offended when you’re working with me.”

“Of course I won’t, sir. I can guarantee that I won’t be easily offended because I have heard everything from Mr. Materna about all these things.”

“Okay, let’s go to my room, there are many things I want to learn before starting my adventure here.”

*****

“Why are you still here, Miles. Don’t you have to go to the office?” Mrs. Hoodie asked just as she saw Miles sitting silently in the living room with his chin propped up.

“Should I embarrass myself by going to the office while my grandmother has handed over my position to an ignorant man like Daren? Of course not, I don’t want to go anywhere as long as Daren is still at the company.”

Mrs. Hoodie held her breath. Miles’ stubbornness had been imprinted since Miles was a baby until he was an adult.

“Aren’t there so many Hoodie family companies? Look for one and arrange it however you like, don’t be like a child who acts as if there is nothing else you are fighting over at the moment.”

“But, Grandma—”

“You can choose to quit your job and have me remove your name from the Hoodie family list or just do what I say!” Mrs. Hoodie said firmly, then she glanced at Miles again while taking a deep, perfect breath. “Besides, I’m sure Daren won’t take long, can you be patient for a year? The problem is that he is the one who has succeeded in persuading our biggest investor. In any case of loss and destruction, even the Wiles family company personally sent its best secretary to accompany Daren, stop worrying about this.”

Hearing this, Miles smiled. He seemed quite calm because his family’s company would not be destroyed by Daren, until then Miles glanced at his grandmother again.

“Grandma, what if I introduce some of my acquaintances who are rich and handsome businessmen to Serena? You know, while she was married to Daren, her life was really sad. As Serena’s male cousin I couldn’t bear to see all this, so I thought about introducing her to some men whose qualities were clearly very far from Daren’s, and I hope Grandma agrees about this.”

“Do whatever you like as long as it’s later, we still have to wait to see how Daren performs. If Daren really isn’t capable of managing the company, whatever you want, do it straight away.”

“I’ll bet Daren will fail within the first month. It is impossible for a restaurant delivery person to be able to lead a company, unless there is a miracle.”