BOARDROOM WARS

The board meeting had been dragging on for now.  Men in black sat in rows. Their hands clutching their pens tightly with their elbows straight on the hardwood table. Their eyes intently  focused on the graph in the screen. They all looked monotonous with all of them middle aged, grey hair, saggy wrinkled skin, bushy eyebrows  and drooping eyebrows, But  Hawkins stood out, his  hair coal black gleaming with  the  fine oil, his  skin flawless and smooth, his beard clean shaven , his body youthful and his clothes exuding confidence.

His seat was the biggest, his pen the fanciest and his position in the company the highest. From a tender age, Hawkins has always wanted bigger things…… Bigger  toys , bigger phones , bigger rooms . He was never satisfied with the little things. He instead chose to seek happiness in the finer, bigger and expensive things in life.

Hawkins, an orphan who was taken into a foster home has accomplished a lot for his 23 years he has endured in this world. He has met the most influential people, ate the fanciest food, interacted with powerful personalities and has gotten rid of a lot of people who came in between him and his success. At his age he should be chasing girls by day and partying at night. At his age he should be living in his friends’ caravan and going out of town just for the fun. But here is running the biggest multinational firm in the world, an achievement that he is proud of.

He has always been different, At kindergarten he could solve trigonometry better than a senior. In middle school, his teacher called him delusional and overly ambitious when he told his class that he would be a millionaire at 22. A dream that was long accomplished.

A long the way, Hawkins never found it easy. At 18 years the CIA indicted  him for  fraud . He allegedly stole millions of dollars from the accounting firm, at that time. He was sentenced to one year of jail. At 29 he went behind bars after he failed to repay loans with thousands of dollars. 6 months later, he was  released . After the second time in jail, he came out a different person. His tactics more smooth and his mind quicker he vowed never to go back again.

Hawkins paid full attention to the  shareholder speaking. He knows that this meeting will determine his life forever. His position is jeopardy of being aborted and Hawkins is not happy about It.!

The  man  speaking  in front  of  them  was  fluent  and coherent  and  his  choice  of words chosen  carefully. Tom Wilbroke, the man aged 62 has   never liked Hawkins. He finds Hawkins to be boisterous and intolerable. And today was the only day he could prove to the team of shareholders and directors, today was the only day, he could become the chairman.

Hawkins knew  all about  Wilbrokes plan  and he  was not happy at all . In fact, angry could not describe what he was feeling at that time. Hawkins ruefully smiled as he thought of how he could permanently get rid of Wilbroke . It wont be the first time to murder someone and he knows that it would not  be the last either.

Nothing ever gets between him and his money, NEVER , and  he knows that Wilbroke  has crossed his  boundaries  and  he surely  shall heavily pay for this!!!  

By Anne WAmbui