She was surprised and even doubted the latter’s age.
“Well, you can use that perfume during the international competition and not domestic if you want it to reach a lot of people. For now, you should think of other perfumes to use on the domestic competitions,” Rhiannon said as she patted Ruby’s head.
“Yeah, I know. But it's just that I haven’t succeeded in that yet,” Ruby answered in a low mood causing Rhiannon to shake her head.
“Don’t worry. There is such a perfume in mother’s recipes but I will only tell you when you are number one in the domestic competitions,” Rhiannon said shocking Ruby as she couldn’t believe what she had just heard.
“What! Are you serious?”
“I never lie,” Rhiannon replied with a smile on her face as she looked at the dumbfounded Ruby.
“However, you need to remain silent about it We don’t want to alert the enemy,” Rhiannon said and Ruby nodded her head vigorously.
They talked about the company and Rhiannon understood it well. When Raven got out of the washroom, they went downstairs as the girls complained that they were hungry.
Rhiannon enjoyed the dinner as she was in a harmonious environment. She was so envious of the family but she also knew that she couldn’t do much about everything as she admitted that not everyone was as lucky as Ruby and Raven were.
However, after some time, she realized that her mother had a lot of people under her and they served her like they were serving their God. Although Rhiannon didn’t feel well about everything, she knew that she didn’t have a choice.
She just promised herself that she would make their dreams come true. She now understood the reason her mother had left a lot of summarised books with every kind of recipe.
If she wasn’t wrong and from Raven’s words, there was a company that was involved in food and beverages and design. She hoped that they were somewhere before taking control of them.
After meals, she requested to talk to her aunt Melda and she was led to the study room.
“Rhiannon, what do you want to tell me?” Melda asked with a smile on her face.
Rhiannon stared at her aunt and wondered how she had managed all these.
“Did my mother open other companies?” Rhiannon asked taking Melda by surprise.
“Yes. Your mother was a very kind-hearted person. She would sponsor children who didn’t have fees and had potential. She also had a skill, she could tell who was a successful person. Who could become successful after being nurtured by her? I was also nurtured by her although I was still in university. She was my master,” Melda said with a smile.
“She had a lot of apprentices. When she saw that one had gained enough skills, she would open a company and let you run it. Because of this, she opened a lot of companies. Although one may think that those guys will be the owners, your mother made them take a pledge. They are running the company for her bloodline. They and their families will always be under her family and her generations,” Melda said causing Rhiannon to frown.
She thought that it was more of a cult.
“We saw her as our mother, our savior as she had saved each one of us. We also knew why she was saying that as she had a lot of enemies. We always wanted to protect her safe thus when we failed, we vowed that we would do everything in our might to protect her child and future generations. When one gets married and gives birth, we teach other children about loyalties. We tell them we are servants of Celestine Sanders so that they can know their stand and everything they have doesn’t belong to them. Well, it does but it is because of the master's mercy we are living a comfortable life,” Melda said as her eyes shone.
“I have a question like you manage the perfume company, is there any other company that is in that industry?” Rhiannon asked as she didn’t want to hear about their vows as to her, it was very odd.
“Yes, there are. She had said that instead of opening one company and all of us to work there, there should be various companies so that when they are joined together, we may dominate. For now, my company is the leader in the perfume industry. We are number 3, numbers 5, 8, and 10 are your mother's company. We want to be the leading, all the companies to be top 5 if not 10 before we join them all together,” Melda said shocking Rhiannon.
Rhiannon just stared at her aunt while she was lost in thought. She wondered how she could manage all of those companies but when she thought of Octavius, she sighed as she felt that she had a man to help her out.
“Okay. If possible, can you arrange for me to meet with the people running the companies? Mom left some recipes behind and I think it would help you guys in moving forward,” Rhiannon said taking Melda by surprise.
Melda had thought that it would take Rhiannon some time to adjust to everything that’s why she had not told her anything during the day. But now looking at Rhiannon, she knew that she had misjudged her.
Rhiannon on the other hand didn’t see any problem with that as she felt that since her mother had already done all this for her and her future, she should continue with her mother’s legacy. She also understood that since they wanted to dominate the business world, it seemed that her mother’s enemies were so powerful thus she knew that if she didn’t take enough precautions, she might end up dead before realizing it.
“Okay. Do you want to only meet the perfumers or all of your mother’s apprentices?”