Chapter 592 - Plan: take care of Regina (4)

Sarah waited for JoAnna to finish talking. She agrees with her sister's analysis, and she would rather not mess with such an unstable woman. "As much as I'm enjoying this game, especially because she is playing exactly how we predicted… I'm still not sure that this is something we should do. It can backfire. If we push her too much, she might do something crazy. Why don't you just fire her and send her from whenever she came from?"

JoAnna sighed. "Don't think that I'm not on the verge of doing that few times every day… but you saw her. She has no considerations, or morals. She was happy to ogle at Aiden while Jeff was not there. Just firing her will not be enough to keep her away. We need to have something big enough on her that will keep her in check. Did you find something?"

Sarah shook her head. "Besides being good with finances, Regina is a socialite. She likes going out, partying, attending events. Finding a date is not a problem for her… but there is nothing scandalous or illegal that we can use against her."

JoAnna listened while her brows furrowed. "Then the only thing left is that we make her do something incriminating and use that to threaten her to stay away. Considering her personality, it should not be difficult."

Sarah frowned. "I don't approve... But if you are set on doing this, I will help. Let's come up with a thorough plan. We can't keep on doing these low level tricks on her successfully forever. This needs to end in one night. And her date needs to cooperate as well… Let's pick a place first."

Sarah looked at Aiden. "Any suggestions?"

Aiden flashed a smile. He was happy that Sarah (finally) included him in coming up with their little schemes.

"Look how happy he is…", JoAnna teased.

Seeing JoAnna tease Aiden made Sarah feel protective of him. "Actually… Aiden is very good at planning. Let's see if we can put his talents to use here…"

Aiden perked up hearing Sarah's praise.

…

Later that evening, JoAnna is ready to call it a night. She got out of the bathroom and saw Jeff sitting on the bed, reading some documents.

Her mind exploded. 'Super-handsome-glasses-mode!'

No matter how many times she saw him wearing glasses, she could not stop herself from getting lost in lustful thoughts. Few times she suspected that she has eyewear fetish, but when she noticed that other people with glasses are not invoking any reaction in her. JoAnna's only conclusion is that she is suffering from a very specific Jeff-with-glasses fetish.

Jeff saw her staring at him with a silly grin on her face and he kept the documents, as well as his glasses on the side table.

"Will you join me, Mrs. White?" He patted bed next to him.

JoAnna snuggled next to Jeff and took a deep breath.

"How was your day?", he asked.

"Productive. Sarah and Aiden set up additional security. I finished almost everything I wanted at the resort. Tomorrow I have only two short meetings and some paperwork. I think that I can finish before lunchtime, and then I don't need to go to the resort for some time."

Jeff noticed that JoAnna sounded relieved when she said that she does not need to go back. "You don't like it there?"

"The resort is great. It's just that Regina… She is mentally exhausting me."

Jeff frowned. "Let me take care of her. I will make sure she does not come back."

JoAnna rejected his idea. "You have a lot going on already. You should not worry about her."

"I'm not worried about her. I am worried about you. Why would some nobody cause you grief? Look at you…" He rubbed her forehead with his thumbs as if he is trying to smoothen it out.

Only then JoAnna realized that she is frowning. Regina impacted her more than she wanted to admit.

"I said I will handle her. I will need your help, of course, but I want to do it…" JoAnna saw him nod in agreement and relaxed. "At this time, we are still discussing options on how to handle her. We want to set her up and get evidence of her misconduct. If it's something big enough, we can use that to make sure she does not come back."

Jeff's eyebrows shoot up. "Blackmail?"

"Do you have other ideas?" JoAnna looked at him and blinked few times. She could tell that he is enjoying this conversation.

And she was not wrong. Jeff was fully enjoying seeing this side of JoAnna. This usually cheerful and carefree lady next to him is plotting to set up Regina and then to use that for blackmailing just because she is shamelessly pursuing him… he likes it.

"Not necessarily other ideas… more like additions." Jeff paused making sure he has her attention before continuing. "Regina is into finances, but the rest of her family is in Morocco. They run a coffee importing business with headquarters in North Carolina. Word is that besides coffee they are also involved in illegal diamond trading as well as corruption in high levels of government in more than one country in Africa."

JoAnna thought for few seconds. "You are saying… that we should get Sophia and Felix also involved and to handle this as a team of six?"

"When we talked about working as a team, I remember the idea that we will punish bad people and make profits while at it. Regina is stepping out of lines with her behavior, and her family is not clean… So…" Jeff flashed a big smile while observing that JoAnna understood where he is going with that.

JoAnna laughed. "I like it. I will make sure that Regina learns her lesson, and when she runs back home for help, she will find out that no one can help her. I will set up conference call, so we discuss this… Oh, since from tomorrow I will not be going to the resort, there is an increased chance that she will attempt to approach you, either at White corp. or somewhere else. Be alert. That woman is shameless."

Jeff nodded in understanding. "You can trust me."

"I do. But I don't trust her. So be vigilant." JoAnna warned Jeff.

He was happy to hear that she trusts him. "While talking about trust... Any progress on replacing her?"

"Yes. Scott is working at the resort on finances for six years and he knows the work. He is already handling everything while Regina's actual responsibilities are reduced to supervising only." JoAnna was happy that Jeff approved of her arrangement.