wedlock with the man he asked to protect me. Now I know this may seem old fashioned but that is how my father thinks and he is protective of his daughters and would do anything he thought was best to protect our honor even if it was antiquated. As you probably already know, Takeo is head of security here at Takahashi and is an extremely honorable man, but if my father found out that I was pregnant, I’m afraid he may order someone to do harm to him.”
Takeo turned to Kiyomi and began to speak Japanese in a very aggressive tone. She also began to speak Japanese. Monica stared at Kiyomi as she spoke fluent Japanese and still could not believe what she was seeing. Her attention was brought back to the couple standing in front of her as Kiyomi stood and walked over to Takeo and softly placing her hands on his face and began to gently caress it as she continue to speak in Japanese. His expression and body language instantly relaxed. He kissed her softly on the lips before turning his attention to Monica. “I will leave you two to continue your conversation. I will be back shortly to escort you both to the conference room.” He immediately exited the office closing the door behind him.
“I apologize for Takeo’s behavior, Monica, he is a very proud man and would prefer to confront my father and deal with the fallout of his actions, and while I know he is very strong and very capable of taking care of this situation physically, I don’t want him hurt. My father was given six months to live a year ago and he is currently in extremely poor health. If he were healthy, I would have told him about me and Takeo and also told him that if he harmed Takeo he would lose me forever, but his poor health is also affecting his thinking. As you can see we are trying to balance a delicate situation. Then there is Mr. Yamada. I am concerned that if something happened to my father, Mr. Yamada will do whatever he has to do to gain control of the corporation. There’s nothing he can do as long as my father is alive. He knows my father has dangerous and powerful friends. Some so loyal that they would die for my father. As you can see we are dealing with some tremendous obstacles. I would love to meet with you later this evening to explain our entire plan, but I needed to meet you this morning before our business meeting so that you could get over the initial shock of seeing me. Because I hired your company, Mr. Yamada will expect me to be at this meeting. I need you to hold your presentation without any distractions.”
“I don’t understand any of this and I definitely don’t understand how I would be able to help,” Monica said, still in disbelief.
“I can explain everything this evening, I just need you to get through the presentation. If Mr. Yamada thinks that there’s anything suspicious going on he will want to use another US company.”
“I will conduct my presentation, don’t worry about that, but I need to call Victoria, she doesn’t know she has a sister,” Monica said concerned.
“Please don’t involve her just yet, we need to make sure our plan is in place. If either my father or Mr. Yamada finds out about her existence before she is fully prepared, it will cause a major disruption in her life and possibility put her life in danger. If our plan is executed, we may all be able to walk away unscathed and I get to meet my twin sister,” she said smiling as a tear slid down her cheek.
Monica instantly felt a connection with her and stood to give her a hug. Takeo walked in as the two began to embrace and quickly closed the door. “It’s important that no one suspects that you two have a connection,” he said with a low stern voice prompting both women to pull back while looking at him. He gave them a slight smile indicating that he understood, but he needed them to know that they were in a dangerous situation and needed to be very careful. “We need to
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