Sleeping With The CEO-Chapter 364: Invite

Patience had never been one of Derek’s strong points. Especially when there was something that he really really wanted to be doing. Just sitting back and waiting to heal had nearly had him pulling his own hair out. His uncle needed to be dealt with, and Derek wanted to confront him as soon as possible. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

But unfortunately for him, he had barely made it out of his last encounter with Sebastian Haven alive. He still needed to heal. But in all honesty. If Derek did not have toworry that Emily would follow him into danger.He would have gone to confront Sebastian in his current state. Using his crutches as weapons if he had to.

If his Emily, his wonderful, beautiful, brave Emily would not have insisted on following him into the fight. Derek would have gone after his uncle without a second thought. But for Emily’s sake, he forced himself to stay hidden at the manor, and get better.

His time at the manor was not just focused on healing though. In an effort to stay sane. He had also started preparing for what would come after his uncle was ousted. Haven Group would need a lot of help to recover. So Derek was trying to fill up most of his time thinking of ways in which he was going to help the company recover. Something which took a lot of effort, and mental focus.

But even with all of that, there was only so much patience that Derek had and it was quickly running out. He had to do something. His uncle needed to be stopped. The longer he stayed in power, the more fearful Derek was of the man.

It seemed that being willing to kill his own family was just scratching the surface on things that his uncle was capable of. They had not been able to confirm things yet, but there were rumours flying around that his uncle was seriously entertaining the idea of financing dictators. Helping to empower people who thought very little of human rights. There were also whispers of him trying to win over warlords.

The kind who loved using child soldiers in their armies. That was a level of evil that Derek could not even imagine. But his uncle was said to be actively considering it. He had to be stopped. But the when and the how, were proving to be difficult. At least it seemed that way until the day that their mothers came to the manor with news.

"Your uncle is planning to throw a party to celebrate the fact that he is now the CEO, he sent me a handwritten invite," His mother said, pulling out the card and handing it over to Emily and Derek. At first, when Derek had been looking at the card. His uncle’s familiar handwriting on the expensive material, he had not been happy at all.

In fact, he had been livid.Only hisEmily’s hand over his own had stopped Derek from tearing the card apart.

Rage coursing through his veins at how crass Sebastian was being.

As far as his uncle knew, Derek was dead. And yet the man had sent his mother an invite to his party within weeks of Derek’s supposed demise. Had the invite come from anyone else, Derek would have tried to look for a different reason behind the gesture.

Trying to fool himself into thinking that his uncle was maybe doing it to try and get his mother out of a gloomy mood. But he knew better. His uncle had sent the invite to his mother as a jab, a way to rub salt in her grieving heart. It was a messed up thing to do, especially when considering that, if things had gone according to plan. Sebastian would have been directly responsible for killing his own nephew.

If Derek really had been dead, as his uncle thought, then the mere gesture of just receiving the card really would have twisted the knife deeper into his mother’s heart, reminding her exactly what she had lost.

And for him to do that, knowing that he had been the one who was responsible for Derek’s death was something else. Being as angry as everyone else around the table. Derek almost missed the opportunity that was right in front of him.

But when he realised what his uncle had unintentionally given them, he could not contain his startled gasp.

"What is it, Derek?" Emily asked, staring at him with wide eyes. Her worry clear.

Derek gave her a reassuring smile, looking at all of them excitedly. He was pretty sure that the look in his eyes was manic, but he did not care.

"This is it. The chance that we have been waiting for. My uncle has given it to us on a silver platter,"

Three pairs of eyes looked at him. It was clear that they were all trying to figure out what he was talking about. Derek reached for the glass of water on the table and took a sip. Resuming talking once he had put it down.

"Think about it. It is a party with every single shady character that uncle Sebastian knows. All eyes will be on him. And we all know that he loves being the center of attention,"

There were multiple nods from everyone at the table. That was a well-known fact about his uncle.

"But my uncle only ever loves attention when it paints him in a positive light. Imagine him throwing the party to end all parties, only for it to end with him in cuffs.Embarrassment is the only pain that actually seems to get through to him. Lets go after him there, and and make him suffer." Derek’s voice was a low hiss, by the end of his statement. A clear indicator of the rage that he still felt towards his uncle.

"You are right. It will not just be enough to go after Sebastian and arrest him at Haven Group. If we take him down in front of all of the people that he is so invested in being seen by, it will be a blow to his ego. Very little touches that man. The only thing he cares about are his pride and his ego. If we hurt him there, then it will be certain to leave a mark,"

His mother sounded like a totally different person. Her tone cold, all emotion gone from it, but there was fire in her eyes. Finally, she would get to go after the man who had killed her beloved husband.

Every single person at the table had a reason to want vengeance against Sebastian Haven. Now the perfect opportunity had presented itself. They finally got a chance to make sure that Sebastian got what was coming to him.

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