Electric Butterfly

Loud gasps and enraged voices quickly filled the room upon Seth's sudden announcement, shocked and visibly upset at his bold decision.

Unable to wrap their heads around thus sudden announcement, everyone was trying to get their voices heard especially the journalists who were asking questions left and right.

Feeling a major loss of confidence, he looked at Adeleine who had a wary expression on her face and then to Alphonso who was just looked at him distinctively.

Even with the questionable looks, he still forged ahead believing this was the only way to save the legacy of the Gonzales.

"I hope i'm making the right decision mum and dad" he thought to himself before pointing to Alphonso, announcing him as the designated CEO.

Noticing a very nuanced change in Alphonso's expression from shock and confused to a subtle smirk , Seth invited him to take the podium beside him.

"I'll explain everything later Uncle" he whispered as he reached out for a hug and then shook his hand in celebration.

At this point, he could hear the questions being thrown at him distinctively.

Questions mainly revolving Mr Alphonso Cruz capabilities to take up the mantle do a great job?

Seeing that he had no other way to convince them, Seth stood firmly onto his decision and ask the board members to give him and Mr Alphonso six months period, which was twice as less a time he had originally requested for to put their doubts to rest.

A board member then rose up and requested that they vote on the decision.

His parents being the great bosses they were before dying, swayed the votings in his favor as he had a 72 percentage of the votes, with the board members quoting his words "three months to put our doubts to rest Mr Gonzales".

After the meeting, he met with his uncle at his appointed office and explained why he did what he did.

"There was no other way for the board to keep me in charge, I heard the rumors" Seth said whilst looking at Alphonso, who seemed to take in the new office rather than pay attention to what he was saying.

"I believe in you uncle, I know we are going to do great things. You are the right person for this, you worked hand in hand with mum and dad, so I'm sure you know how to run the company and I want you to teach me everything especially things I haven't learned from books" he continued as he noticed Alphonso finally paying attention to him.

"One year huh?, we are going to do great things Godson" he replied with a somewhat happy expression on his face as he winked at Seth and then hugged him one last time before exiting the room.

No sooner he left, Adeleine entered the room, still with the wary expression on her face, she asked him if he was sure about his decision and her distrust for Mr Alphonso, insinuating that he could have a hand in his parents death.

Seth immediately closed his eyes upon hearing her, trying to not let the words trigger him, he then turn to her and forced a smile whilst telling her that it was a terrible accident what happened with his parents and that he trusted his Godfather.

Deep down Seth had an uneasy feeling he couldn't explain.

Noticing how hurt he was beyond the forced smile, Adeleine changed her wary expression to a happy one, hugging and telling him how proud she was of him.

After pulling back, she noticed the string of Aria's I.D card from earlier, which was now hanging out from Seth's pocket.

She then drew it out, analyzing the I.D card and then finally with a confused and smirking look, she asked Seth who it belonged to.

Seeing the I.D card in her hands, Seth began blushing whilst trying to take it from her hands which was harder than it seem.

He then sighed defeated in a good way and then explained his encounter with Aria and how he wanted to drop it at her workplace.

"Will this be a regular thing or something that ends within a months time" Adeleine asked, referring to his previous relationships.

"Hopefully something more" he replied back with a beaming glee in his eyes, quickly he said his goodbye and was on his way out when Adeleine requested he used one of his cars rather than an Uber.

Still unsure about who to trust, he requested that they hire the uber drive whom he had felt connected to.

Jaime was appointed as his official driver from that moment.

Aria being caught up with finding the missing funds was busy at work with Amid, who had a not so subtle crush on her and saw this as a perfect opportunity to finally get close to her.

"The funding donated for the EXEMT foundation was 10 million dollars, but only seven million was delivered. awhich means upto three million was squandered and not accounted for" Aria explained to him as she frantically went through her researched presentation.

It's no secret that there was a bigger scheme going on in the office, but could she really trust Amid, Aria thought to herself.

Seth and Jaime later arrived at Aria's workplace, feeling a little overhead he still couldn't help but be confident and excited as he entered the office.

Immediately being the center of attention.

The employees began to whisper amongst themselves as they were all surprised by his sudden appearance, especially after making the headlines in the tabloids few hours earlier making him a trending topic.

Aria was about to reply to Amid, who had asked her why she still chose to pursue her medical studies and not continue her job at the advertising agency when she heard the commotion outside.

"What is happening" she asked Amid before opening the door to check.

With a shocking turn of events, she was face to face with Seth who stood outside the door about to knock.

Before coming into contact with Aria again, Seth had randomly talk to Ashley who was more than willing to direct him to Amid's office thus explains why he was infront of the door.

Upon seeing her, Seth began smiling from ear to ear, visibly obvious about his excitement to see her.

Aria stood infront of him still in disbelief that he was actually there,unsure how to react to his sudden appearance.

Seeing that his smile was so genuinely radiant, she couldn't help but become lost in his gaze again.

For a moment, the world stopped around them as they both felt the intensified electricity.

The butterfly effect had taken full force over Aria, but is their something more there for it to either be a good or bad thing.

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