Wipeout: Wipeout Book 1 by Richards ES & Kraus Mike

Author:Richards, ES & Kraus, Mike
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2020-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“Oh come on!”

Samuel thumped the steering wheel with the side of his fist, frustrated by the voicemail message that greeted him again. He’d been trying to get through to Trident ever since leaving his parents’ house and every time he called all he got was voicemail. There was no one manning the phones, no one screening the calls; nothing. Any suspicions he had that the company was still in operation were fading fast.

He hoped his parents would understand what he was doing. He had left in sort of a whirlwind, not fully explaining the rationale behind what he was doing. In truth, he wasn’t really sure what it was that had come over him. But Samuel was loyal without a fault and to see the company he had worked tirelessly for over many years being torn apart on national television had awoken something inside him. If there were people at Trident, then he felt like he needed to be one of them and he needed to be involved. If only someone would answer the phone.

Being back at his parents’ had reminded Samuel of the many life lessons they’d taught him growing up. Both his mother and father came from a long line of family money, never wanting for anything in their lives and being brought together by their social groups and standings. His father was a highly sought-after lawyer, dealing in only the most high-profile cases often with celebrities who had more money than sense. His mother meanwhile owned the majority share in a confectionary company that her great grandfather had founded in his youth. Nowadays she had very little to do with it, having hired enough people to make the decisions for her that she only visited the company perhaps once or twice a year at most.

It was a management system not that dissimilar to the one currently in place at Trident. The CEO was Claire Manning, earning her place at the top by having it handed down through her family over generations. Samuel had met her once or twice, but both times had remarked about how flippantly she treated her employees. She wasn’t very well liked within the company, no matter how hard she’d worked to get there. In fact, it had been rumoured in previous months that her younger brother was due to take over from her, though whether that was something she’d known or not was another question. Either way, neither of the Manning siblings would have a company to control shortly, unless something changed with Trident very, very soon.

With this thought on his mind, Samuel hit the redial button on the screen in front of him again and willed someone to pick up the phone. Words hung on the tip of his tongue, ready to pour out if someone answered his call, but the moment never came. Irritated, he huffed as the call went to voicemail again, his calls being well and truly ignored by everyone inside.

“Alright then,” Samuel muttered to himself, revving the engine of his father’s Mercedes.

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