Chapter 320 - Team of six (9) (1/2)
Later that evening, Sarah got out of the shower and plopped on the bed next to Aiden. He embraced her. ”Talk to me.”
Sarah sighed. ”I have difficulty understanding how much malice Vivian has toward me because she is jealous.”
”Think about it this way...” Aiden paused for a second. ”You are a bright star, amazing, blinding. People stand around you and can only admire you. But there are few who can't stand your light, because it's too intense. They will turn away from you and see their own shadow. They don't hate you, they hate their own shadow, but they see it because of you, so they think that by diminishing your glow their shadow will go away.”
Sarah looked at him in awe. ”Since when are you so good with analogies?”
He chuckled. ”I have many talents that you still need to discover.”
”I see...” She smiled. ”Thank you for cheering me up.”
He smiled for a second and then his lips straightened up. ”When do you want to go back to the warehouse?”
Sarah shook her head. ”I don't want to go back.”
”Are we going to leave them locked up in there?”, he raised his eyebrows in surprise.
”No.” Sarah got out of the bed and picked up her phone. She dialed a number.
”Mom...”
Sarah heard Stella exhale. ”How many?”
Sarah could not help but smile seeing that her mom knew why she is calling about. ”Four. Vivian, she sold me out. Philip, who drugged me, and two of his henchmen.”
”Their state?”
”Some beating, and they might be in a compromising situation.”
”Compromising?”
”I didn't do anything that they didn't plan to do to me.” Sarah was not comfortable talking about it. Not yet. She hoped that her mom will not probe further into this.
”Location?”
Sarah explained where warehouse is. ”Can you get them tomorrow afternoon?”
”Yes... Sarah, honey...”
”Yes, mom?”
”You did well.” Stella always taught her daughters to retaliate and not to be victims. Hearing that Sarah punished people who wronged her made Stella feel proud.
”Thank you.” Sarah was happy that her mom praised her.
”Good night.” Stella hanged up first.
Sarah kept her phone away.
”Your mom is awesome.” Aiden praised Stella. ”Scary, but awesome.”
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During weekend, certain blogs, magazines and news sources published damaging information related to two companies. One was owned by Simmons family and other one by Peterson. News ranged from money laundering, suspicious activities of companies, to criminal and immoral behavior of executives of those companies. Several new stories got published every hour, everything was backed up with documents and pictures.
Sarah and Aiden watched trends on social media and made sure to take down any posts that are in favor of those companies.
From Saturday morning, to Sunday evening those two companies became synonym for dirty way of doing business. Many of their business partners announced that they will break their relationships with those companies.