Chapter 6

 When Carmen went to the office with Shane to talk to Mr. Morales, she noticed that the way Shane walked into the office….its like she owns the place…’well she does own half of it’ Carmen thinks to herself. But there’s this really sexy way she enters…like everyone has to look up at her when she comes in and there is a certain air of authority in Shane’s appearance. Even when Mr. Morales and Shane were walking down the hallways together, Carmen noticed that Shane would get more respect and attention than the funny and light hearted Mr. Morales. This made Carmen feel uncomfortable. But she brushed away the feeling thinking, ‘I am probably being over protective of my father’. 

 A good three weeks has passed since Carmen asked Shane to live in her family house. Shane spent Thanks giving with them. She seems pretty close to Marco. And the kids love Shane. But Shane is moving in her new apartment. Carmen has grown some feelings for Shane. But she cannot really decide what those feelings are about…its confusing so Carmen tries not to think too much and just enjoy the time she spends with Shane in the movies and in the office and sometimes in the studio. They have shared a couple of heated kiss. But they are still not officially or even unofficially together. It can be inferred that they’re right now probably just friends with benefits. But Carmen is happy and so is Shane. 

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 One morning at MM entertainment: 

 Shane has full access to Mr. Morales’ office and papers and everything since she’s the co-owner of the company. Shane walks in to the room and sees a fax coming she pulls in the fax, reads it. It was about some warning from the bank saying not to invest on one of their most trusted companies, since that company is going to go bankrupt in 48 hours due to some unfortunate circumstances. Shane reads it carefully and destroys the paper. 

 On her way out greets Mr. Morales who was late today. 

 Mr. Morales:"Shane can you get started with the meeting? I am gonna join in a couple of minutes!"

 Shane:"Sure thing"

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 The meeting was going perfectly fine until Shane brought up that they are not going to continue on their yearly investment on BNT’s anymore. 

 Mr. Morales:"Wait Shane did I hear you righ..?"

 Shane:"Yes Sir" Shane cut him off confidently. 

 Mr. Morales:"SHane, if you know our company history then you must know that they have a lot of our shares and we cannot just stop investing on them this year, unless they go bankrupt, which is impossible at this point"

 Shane:"Mr. Morales, I respect your business skills…But I hate to bring up the fact that your skills are probably getting a little rusty…and if you have been studying the present situations and keeping good track of underground news you would expect the BNTs to go bankrupt in the next 45 hours…mark my word"

 Mr. Morales also had Carmen’s temper and Shane was getting on his nerves now. 

 Mr. Morales:"You should watch who you are talking to"

 Shane:"I have 20/20 vision Mr. Morales"

 Mr. Morales:"In that case you should know that I have been doing this since you were a toddler and I know my how to run my business"

 Shane:"Why talk to big Mr. Morales…why don’t we stall the investment for the next 45 hours and see who’s right?"

 Mr. Morales:"Are you challenging me?"

 Shane:"Well I didn’t bring up the challenging part…but you say so then sure! I can sure play a little betting with my co-worker"

 Mr. Morales:"If you are wrong then you have to leave tomorrow first thing"

 Shane:"I would do anything you would tell me to! But if you are wrong Mr. Morales…then the whole company becomes mine"

 Mr. Morales:"Dream on little kiddO" with that Mr. Morales leaves the room, but Shane continues with the meeting as if absolutely nothing happened.