My Cursed Mate

While the ladies were having their time, the atmosphere in the living room turned serious. Evos left earlier to take care of some things with the company leaving Megrez and Vega.

“What’s your next step?” Megrez asked his brother with his gaze on the swirling wine in his wine glass.

“I don’t know,” Vega shook his head, “the ORDER, the curse and our relationship, there’s too much going on.”

“I know. Everything just got complicated in a day,” Megrez sighed. “By the way, regarding Sophia’s death, I already called people to clear it but her father is still looking into it.”

It was Vega’s turn to sigh. “As long as he can find solid evidence of her dying in an accident, there won’t be any problems. Kazandra and Evos already planned it in Zaithan as long as there’s no mishaps, we won’t have a problem.”

“I hope so. The matters about the elders, I’ll take care of it so you can focus on yourself and on breaking that curse.” Megrez gave his brother a pat. His situation was not easy and he couldn’t let those elders add more to the burden.

Vega was glad that he has a brother like Megrez. He was an alpha but he still cared for his biological family. “Thank you.”

The sun hasn’t fully risen in the sky yet when Evos came running and knocking on Vega’s door. The man just finished his run when he heard the rapid knocks on his door. By smell alone, he could already tell that Evos was nervous. The moment the door opened Evos showed him the tablet he was holding.

Vega frowned at the tablet and took it from the man. His frown deepened when he saw the contents of the article being shown on the tablet’s screen. He continued to browse through it and could only sigh.

“Let’s go to company today.” He returned the tablet to Evos, “have you contacted the PR department?”

Evos nodded. “Yes, I already told them to take down all those fake news and all posts that may cause damage to Empire’s image.”

“Alright.” After that, Vega and Evos left the pack early after informing Megrez of what happened. The alpha assured them that he will take care of their mates.

They reached Empire just as the employees started to come in. The usual early morning chatter in the company’s lobby was replaced with silence and whispering. And at the appearance of Vega who felt colder and even more detached made the atmosphere worse. The employees greeted him as usual but he had no time to return their greeting because someone was trying to discredit his company.

“Update?” He asked after they reached the PR Department of the company.

The IT and PR staff were busy in taking down the malicious posts and fake news and in coming up with an effective solution to change the public’s opinion about the company.

“We’ve taken down most of the posts and are now tracking the people behind those posts.” The head of the IT Department answered. He was about to say something more when one of the staff shouted.

“They’ve uploaded a video and now its spreading like a wildfire!”

The room was in an uproar. Evos opened his cellphone and immediately saw the video. As he tapped on the play button, what met him was the day when they were inside Sophia’s room in the hotel.

“Sir,” he passed his phone to Vega, “I think this is done by the ORDER.”

Vega saw the video and understood his friend’s word. Before they left Zaithan, they made sure that all evidence during that incident was destroyed. Reiga made sure that everything was flawless but it seems that the ORDER had some back-up plans.

“It must have been the doll,” Evos interrupted his thoughts. “That doll was somewhat special because it assumed Sophia’s form and with that video, the blame will fall on us.”

Another staff came running to the room and looked at Vega with wide eyes. “Mr. Reiner is here and he wanted to talk to you, sir.”

Evos looked at his friend and saw the man the sigh before he spoke. “I’ll take care of Mr. Reiner. You take care of the matters here. I want all articles, posts, videos and pictures to be taken down before lunch.”

After receiving affirmation, Vega left the room and went to his office where the man was waiting. He entered and faced the unusually calm man. Mr. Reiner was silently having a coffee and was casually looking around his office.

“Mr. Reiner, it is a pleasure to meet you,” Vega greeted.

He was wearing a black pull over that showed how buff he was. As he turned around, Vega could finally see how he looked like. He had his short black hair slicked back which made him seem very professional contrary to the rumors Vega heard in the past. The reason for those rumors might be his eyes, they were black and lack the warmth and compassion of a human being.

Mr. Reiner gave Vega a curt nod. He returned to the couch and sat down. “Do you have anything to tell me?”

Vega took the couch in front of the man. “All of those rumors are not true and that video is obviously fabricated.”

Mathis Reiner was one of the most influential people in Xefton. Rumors of him being involved with the underground and black market circulates around but no one has really proven its legitimacy. Despite that, most of the business men in Xefton don’t dare to offend the man.

Mathis narrowed his eyes. “Do you think that I am a fool?”

“No one would ever think that you are a fool but what I am saying is true, all of those were deliberately done in an attempt to bring down Empire.” Vega answered with a straight face.

Mathis maintained his silence. He was impressed that Vega could remain calm while facing him when most people would tremble in fear by just hearing his name. He knew that he was intimidating but the owner of Empire really lived up to his name.

“If you insist, then, I won’t stop investigating the matter. Whether those articles or videos are true or not, I will get to the bottom of it. I hope you can wait for the result.”