The Rich and Furious Son-in-law - Chapter 24
Chapter 24: City Folks Really Know How to Have Fun!
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Allan instinctively took a step back and then stared at Ryan with a grim expression. “Don’t go too far, Ryan!”
Grandma and Raymond had purposely invited him to the birthday party. If things went according to plan and he could take Lumi with him, she would be his woman.
But now, things had gone out of his control.
“Go too far? Who is going too far here, Allan? Lumi is my wife now. Do you expect me to sit by and do nothing, letting you steal my wife from me and make me a cuckold? Eat that freaking sock—wasn’t that what you said? I have a video on my phone to prove that. Would you like me to show it to you again?” Ryan hissed, and slowly approached Allan with a wicked smile.
Allan stepped back again. “Shameless!” He instinctively wanted to order his bodyguards to attack Ryan, but found that they were, though awake, all wailing in pain.
Under Ryan’s intense glare, Allan backed down and decided to leave. “Fine. But I am not finished with you yet. Just wait and see. If you want Moore Corporation to inject capital into Mears Corporation, send your wife to my hotel room within an hour.”
Raymond, Anthony, and Lilian tried to persuade him to stay. “Why don’t you leave only after the banquet, Allan? Let us talk things over.”
Allan hissed and shot a glare at Ryan. What for? If he stayed, he would have to eat that stinky sock, and that was humiliating, he thought to himself.
Never had he faced such humiliation before in life!
‘I will make you pay for this!’
As Allan walked quickly toward the door, Raymond exchanged a look with his father and grandma and they quietly nodded at each other. Raymond quickly went after Allan. “I will see you out, Allan.”
Once Allan and Raymond had left in tandem, the atmosphere in the living room became a little weird all of a sudden.
“Are you stupid, Ryan? You’ve just driven Mr. Moore away. What about the thirty-million-dollar cash shortfall in Mears Corporation?” Grandma said with a sullen face.
“Yeah, we agree for Lumi to lead but not bankrupt the company,” said Lumi’s second uncle Anthony.
Jerome Meyer, Lumi’s uncle, hesitated for a moment. His eyes suddenly flashed with wickedness. “How about this: Let’s sell the company’s shares while we still can? I have asked, the company’s shares are worth fifty million dollars. There is a willing buyer. After the company is sold, we will get to share the money.”
“Okay! That is a good idea.” Lumi’s second uncle, Lilian, and aunt nodded in agreement. Even grandma did not object to it.
This was what they had discussed when they gathered around the table earlier.
Since Raymond was blackmailed by Ryan and could not take charge of the company, they would sell the company rather than letting it fall into Lumi’s hands.
Lumi was sitting next to Ryan, furious as she looked at her perfidious relatives. “No, this is my grandfather’s legacy. You all absolutely can’t sell the company!”
Grandma shot a disdainful glance at Lumi. “What are you going to do with your uncles and aunts’ shares if you don’t sell the company? Do you really want them to hold on to their shares and get not a penny when the company goes bust?”
“That’s right! Even if the company can only sell for fifty million dollars, we have at least thirty percent of the company’s shares and can get at least ten million dollars for ourselves.” Lumi’s second uncle ran a little calculation. “Not that we are forcing you. Just that we have to think about our future, considering the company’s recent situation. Either we sell the company, or you buy back our shares.”
“Your second uncle is right. That’s what we meant.”
Every one of them seconded the idea, which was practically to force Lumi’s hand.
One or the other. Lumi basically had no choice when the company was having financial difficulty. In their view, the company still had a $30 million cash shortfall. How could she spend $20 million to buy their shares?
“Y-You all…” Standing up in anger, Lumi pointed at them. “You are all traitors. This is too much! I tell you what, the company is actually—”
Lumi almost gave away the fact that the company had gotten a cash injection until Ryan hurriedly put away his cell phone and wrapped his hand around her waist. He then gave everyone a once over. “You all want to sell the company? No way. How much do you all want to sell your shares for? Tell me the price. I will buy all of your shares, and after that, you all will have nothing to do with the company anymore.”
What?
Ryan’s words stunned everyone.
The company still had a $30 million deficit. How could the company get the money to buy back their shares?
Lumi became a little panicked. “Where are you… we going to get the money to buy their shares? We can’t touch that $30 million.”
If what her second uncle said was anything to go by, if the company was worth $50 million, they would have to fork out at least $20 million to buy back the shares from these relatives.
But Ryan just let out a mysterious smile at her. “Have you forgotten about the twenty-million dollars owed by Newlane Logistics? It has been four or five years; it is time to get back the money.”
“Newlane Logistics? Don’t kid me, Ryan. We have gone to them and asked them for the hundredth time to pay up for the past few years, to no avail. They just didn’t want to pay,” Lumi said with a sad face. The financial woe of Mears Corporation was also partly because of this uncollected debt.
Ryan held her hand. “Don’t worry, leave it to me. I will recover the debt in an hour.”
Those relatives murmured to each other, and at last, Lumi’s second uncle spoke. “Twenty million for all our shares—this is the price we are asking for. No bargain. If you can make the payment by today, we will not sell the company. Otherwise, listen to us—sell the company and distribute the money.”
Grandma sat on the main seat, non-committal. It seemed that she had acquiesced to it.
“Okay, very well.” Ryan let go of Lumi with a wicked smile. “No need to wait until the afternoon. Shall we sign the agreement now? By the way, those gifts that I gave you all just now are worth at least hundreds of thousands of dollars each. They should be part of the consideration for the share buyback.”
“Your shamelessness knows no bounds, Ryan. I can’t believe that you want those gifts back when it was you who gave them to us. How could you do this?” Lilian covered the bracelet in her hand with a reluctant look.
“It is not yours, but Grandma’s birthday today. Besides, it was the bodyguards, not me, who gave you the gift. I never said it was meant for you. Lumi, take a note of Aunt’s bracelet. It is worth five hundred thousand dollars. Remember to deduct it from the payment.”
Hearing that Ryan and Lumi were going to use the gifts as collateral for real, she quit. “Nice try. I have three percent share in the company, and they are worth at least three million dollars. Don’t think about using this damn bracelet as collateral. Take it back.”
“That’s right. Take back mine, too.”
…
Lumi’s uncles returned the emeralds and placed them on the table in front of Ryan.
Ryan sneered. ‘A bunch of freeloaders of guys are trying to challenge me? No way.’f
He lacked no money. But he was not prepared to give the expensive gifts to those ingrates.
Seeing that most gifts had been returned, he called out to those bodyguards at the door. “Take these gifts back, and thank Mr. Parker on my behalf.”
Matt, the captain of the bodyguard team, looked confused.
‘It beats me how we were asked to bring a bunch of expensive gifts but he did not give them out. Was he using them just to look cool?’
‘Cityfolks really know how to have fun!’
