Return of the Tycoon

CHAPTER EIGHT

"Why is she not picking up her phone?"

"Pick up the damn phone!" 

Michaelson was shouting frustratingly. He has been trying to reach Lisa on her cell phone, but it just kept ringing and ringing, without her picking the phone.

"Let me call her aunt"

he said to himself.

After all, she liked and adored him. 

"Hello? Josephine" 

she picked up his call.

All he could say was,

"Lisa's ex-husband, isn't what we all thought he was". 

Josephine replied,

"Calm down now. What did you say again?".

He had already dropped the call. She didn't understand what he had just told her. She quickly called her niece Lisa on her phone. But Lisa wasn't coming to the phone. She kept trying, until she finally answered the phone. 

"What happened? I have been trying to reach you. Even Don Michaelson called your cell phone but you didn't answered".

Her aunt, Josephine said to her. 

"Sorry aunt, I was asleep" 

she replied.

"You better call Michaelson and find out what is going on.

Josephine said, before she ended the call on Lisa.

Lisa, immediately called Don Michaelson to find out what was going on. 

"Lisa, your ex-husband is not a pauper. What was your last name? The last name you went by, while you were married to your ex-husband" 

He asked her. 

"Del Monte. I use to go by Mrs. Lisa Del Monte"

she replied him. 

He felt like the biggest fool ever, because ever since he started sleeping with Lisa, it didn't occur to him that he should know her last name. Maybe, just maybe, if he knew her last name, while she was still married to Pedro, this would have been averted.

"Pedro Del Monte, your ex-husband, is my boss. What am I even saying? He was my boss"

he said to Lisa.

She didn't understand what he was saying. 

"Wait a second, Pedro? My ex-husband, is your boss? 

That can't be. There's a mixup somewhere. The Pedro I know, is a pauper and I'm pretty sure, one doesn't become rich overnight, talk more of being a boss". 

Lisa said to him over the phone, being all confused.

"You are not listening. Okay, listen up. My company isn't actually my company, as I told you initially. I lied, because it was the only way I could get you to sleep with me, by making you think that it was solely mine. The truth is that, it is a sub-company, one out of over a hundred sub-companies, all under a parent company. The name of the company is 'The Del Monte Group of Companies' and guess who is the owner of all of it. Yes, your ex-husband, Pedro. He had inherited from his father, Pedro-senior".

Don Michaelson explained to her.

"So, you mean to tell me you are not as wealthy as you claimed? And I remember, you said something about my ex-husband being your boss or he was your boss?". 

she asked Don Michaelson, over the phone. 

"He has dismissed me. I no longer work for him. Lisa, is there anyway you could maybe talk to him, to give me my job back".

he said to Lisa.

"This old fool. Did you just ask me to go talk to my ex-husband about you getting your job back? You must be delusional. How about me that you deceived and even made me divorce my loving husband"

she said to Don Michaelson.

"Don't even get started with me, you slut. You are a materialistic bitch. You have always been one who just wants this and that, looking for the next guy to milk of his resources. Now you know I am old? You and those criminals you call your sister and aunt. And correction, he is no longer your husband. He is your ex-husband, you slut". 

They started exchanging words. They were so frustrated with each other. Lisa, blaming Don Michaelson for making her divorce her then husband, but now ex-husband. At the other hand, Don Michaelson blamed her, for being too insultive, always embarrassing Pedro when they had not gone through their divorce yet. Maybe he would have still had his job. 

Finally, after an intense twenty minutes of quarreling and mud slinging over the phone, it came to an end, as Lisa ended the phone call. 

"I will call Pedro, start crying over the phone, and tell him how my elder sister, Sarah and my aunt, Josephine, deceived me and told me to cheat on him. I know he still has a soft spot for me. It will surely work"

She said to herself.

Lisa suddenly became desperate, as she thought of ways to manipulate Pedro into taking her back as his wife. 

Pedro was still with Simon, discussing how Simon was going to personally scrutinize subordinate workers, to get the best person to be promoted to be  new head of operations for the sub-company,  Don Michaelson had been fired from earlier in the afternoon of that day.

His phone rings, he takes a look at the screen, and it's Lisa's number. He cuts the call, he refused picking.

"Baby pick my calls please. Stop ignoring me. I am sorry" 

she said.

Like he could hear her from where he was. She called him again, and again he rejected the call, by cutting it. She continued calling, calling and calling his cell phone. He kept declining her calls, he was doing it deliberately just so, she feels the hurt a little more. 

What Lisa didn't realize was that, the tables have turned and this time, it was Pedro actually manipulating her, by making her continue calling him. His time has finally come to carry out his revenge on Lisa. It was going to be one she will not forget in a hurry. 

"Simon, let's finish up this meeting some other time. You already know the plan. I am leaving this project to you. Run the exercise on the subordinate workers and get the best one out of them, that will be proactive and productive, just like you are" 

he said to Simon, while looking at his phone screen, expecting another call to come in from his ex-wife, Lisa. 

"Surely, Sir. I will get right on it. Expect the results soon. Do have a good evening". 

Simon says, as he waves his boss, Pedro, goodbye. 

As Pedro climbed upstairs, his phone rang, and he took a look at his phone's screen to see who was calling. It was her calling him, yet again. She had taken the bait. As he climbed up he had a devilish smile on his face. 

"The game will end with me. I shall show you much pain and I will have the last laugh".

he said, as he made his way to his room.