Mrs Greyman immediately stopped eating. "Your point being??" Kevin queried irritatedly.
"I was talking to mum not you, Kevin" Lexi returned calmly but firmly.
"Imagine the temerity! Are we back to the classics were you always countered and challenged me?? Cos I could always whoop your ass like I did back then!"
"enough!" Mrs Greyman yelled.
"I thought you said you've handled her mum?? What's this now??!"
"Enough I said!" she sounded again.
"I thought we've settled this Alexandra, what's with the back and forth??" Mrs Greyman queried.
"I never agreed to this mum, I won't be a party to this deception, there has to be some other way" Lexi declared.
"Listen up young lady, this is the only way, you don't have much of a choice here, I'm doing you a favour you know, except you have a better plan, do you?
"What plan could she possibly have?? If she did we wouldn't be here in the first place. Even if she does, we cannot trust Lexi's judgement, she's reckless!" Kevin spat.
Unknown to Kevin, he had struck a nerve, for she slowly stood, put her two hands on the table, leaned in on them and said, "I will do it."
"What?? You can't be serious!" Mrs Greyman ruled out
"Yeah right!" Kevin mocked.
"Whatever comes out of it, I will take responsibility for, but I need you two to do me a favour, do not breath down my neck, keep out of this completely" she sounded and then walked out on them.
"Mum are you just going to sit here and watch her Walk out like that?? We need to stop her! Do something mum!" Kevin whined.
"Shut up! For the umpteenth time Kevin! You don't know how to do anything! You claim to know your sister so well, yet you fail to realize that when she makes a resolution like that then there's no stopping her!"
"So we're just going to let her have her way??"
"Of course not! Listen..." she started to say but suddenly went mute as she scanned the entire area, then with an extremely low voice she continued.
"You have to meet with the board members ASAP, and convince them that you're the best man for the position."
"I agree but, can you do the convincing part? Those folks hate me you know."
"Are you an idiot or what?? I can't continue to spoon-feed you! You must do that on your own and earn their trust all by yourself!"
"Alright, fine, fine! How soon are we talking about??" Kevin asked.
"Tomorrow" she replied.
"What??!"
...
By evening Lexi had informed Gabriel of her decision and, Gabriel being a man who lived in the future, had already made preparations, one of which included getting Lexi a personal assistant.
"Hello miss Greyman, I'm Matthew Rashford, but you can call me Matt" he said eloquently.
For some odd reason, Lexi liked him immediately, maybe because of the way he permed his hair, did his lipgloss flawlessly, gave his brows the neatest microblade ever and amusingly, carried himself elegantly like a lady would.
Whatever be the reason, one thing was clear, Matt was someone who paid attention to details and that's just the kind of person Lexi would work with.
The rest of the evening was used to do a lot of prepping and getting acquainted with most of the things a Chief Executive Officer of Grey Bridge should know.
Shopping wasn't even necessary cos every single attire she would ever need had been bought and to her taste too, which had her suspecting that someone who knew her too well was involved in this.
At last, there was nothing left to be said or done and by now, Gabriel and Matt had already left, now she was to wait till she hears the word go.
The next morning started with an early morning meeting at Grey Bridge, and just according to Mrs Greyman's plan, Kevin was proceeding over the board meeting.
"I can assure you that everything you heard was just rumours, there's no way my little sister who had never even set foot in this company would run it. Believing such baseless rumour is an insult to my father's judgement, therefore I beseech members of this honourable board to jettison such rumour" Kevin implored.
"Still, we cannot over look some glaring facts here. We all got a mail from Mr Anderson's desk, stating that your sister would be his stand-in, now that can't be false. Have you got any explanation for that Mr Kevin??" Mr Brown quizzed strongly.
"Also, the mail stated she would be the one officiating this meeting. So why are you here?" another Mr Harrison queried.
By now, Kevin was already thrown off balance, 'how did I miss all these details??' he wondered.
"And giving your reputation with the company in the past, I doubt Mr Anderson would want a repeat in history" Mrs Reginald chipped in.
Kevin was at a loss for words, he was thrown into disarray and whenever he was in this state, he did all the wrong things... he said all the wrong things.
"My sister is incompetent! She is inexperienced! She is... "
"The best man for the job" came a voice from without and soon the owner of the voice can in view.
"And you are??" Mr Vincent queried.
"Alexandra Greyman."