A Billionaire's Tale

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she quickly walked to the table of the expecting older man. She placed the envelopes on the table

s that were in front of the older man, she adjusted her skir

he man asked “Jo

er and shook her head with a little furrow on her b

that would get us out of this mess we found ourselves in,” he s

k was

loud enough for the pe

enveloped letter came inside his office, closed t

and that made both father and daughter

Robbie handed over to him. He looked at the sealed envelope and

ent, his eyes widened when he saw the content

ey

ir, th

hed her father’s reaction then stood to pick the paper that lay on

have to be joking” she sai

are no

hen placed the paper on the table “Yes, we have been struggling since the Kingswell project which was a dis

nkruptcy but we can still hold on, right Dad?” she asked for clarity with h

e used up the rest of our resources to try and make an al

ound the room as she thought about what could be done to save h

g then refer some of our employees to other companies, temporarily so that we can have lesser sa

e families to feed,” she finishes and he bows his head then s

he breaks to her and she widens her eyes “I don’t know how that happ

s ridiculous, they possibly wouldn’t just want our com

our company has been progressing over the years, they saw o

hing else,” she said then let her lips draw a smirk “And I think I

an?” she nods “You want to

lease” she begged when she saw the sullen look on her dad’s face “I’

ctions she was going to tak

ther so that you start work as soon as possible,” she said and he nodded before leaving “

months

’s office looking really panicked. He walked to Gary

ng of his office door again to see Darken Reliso, the son of Henry and Ansel Reliso

on his lips and kept his right b

was in front of Gary, he then let himself sit on the chair i

are directed at him. “Can you leave us so we can talk?” he asked but Robbie

ing here Dark?”

at up on his chair “

are you doing here

the table and raised his chin up “Now I see w

?” Gary asked with a litt

this man to leave us to tal

o be present in every meeting I

ple are too stupid to see who truly is against them,” he remarks and before Gary can ask

s ridiculous”

ges and you are already bankrupt, soon some company will come to buy you guys off

h my words if

t will be okay if we took over some shares of your company than

a of what he wa

N

ou’ll just end up losing what yo

in a deadlock here and as much as he doesn’t want to agree with Darken,

n all blank spaces and flung it at Darken “Don’t think yo

a triumphant smirk and walke