The Rich and Furious Son-in-law - Chapter 25
Chapter 25: Wanting to Know Why She Fails
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As upset as Grandma and others were, they could only watch as the bodyguards carried away the gifts from Preston Parker.
Meanwhile, the gifts that Allan brought had been shattered.
They ended up getting nothing after all that fuss.
They were really cheesed off.
“Wait a minute,” Ryan said to them after all the gifts were removed.
In less than two minutes, he came back from the car outside the house with a stack of documents. “This is the share transfer agreement. Uncle Anthony, your share is five percent; Uncle Jonathan six percent, Aunt four percent, Aunt Lilian, Uncle Jerome, Grandma…”
As Ryan handed out the agreements to each of them, Lumi looked on, flabbergasted.
Those relatives of Lumi were all stunned, too.
Apparently, Ryan had already prepared all the agreements in advance.
Did Ryan know this was going to happen? Did he have everything calculated?
Curiosity and shock filled Lumi’s eyes as she looked at him. When did Ryan prepare these agreements? She had known nothing about it at all.
“Can you really pay us, Ryan? We are talking about twenty million dollars in cash. Have you ever seen so much money in your life?” Anthony exchanged a look with Jonathan and others. His expression looked grave, as he had a bad feeling about it.
They had burned their bridges and had little choice now. Even so, they were reluctant to sell their shares at dirt cheap prices.
What they hope now was for Ryan and Lumi to fail to come up with that much money.
Ryan smiled faintly at Anthony, “Sign it, Uncle Anthony, and four million dollars will be transferred to your account immediately.”
Anthony looked Ryan in the eyes. “Who are you trying to fool? Hmph! I would like to see how you are going to come up with twenty million dollars.”
Anthony signed on the dotted line. “Here you go. It is your turn to transfer the money.”
“Call Secretary Butler to transfer the money,” Ryan said to Lumi, who was beside him.
Lumi nodded and dialed Patricia Butler’s number. “Hey, Patricia. Go to the finance department and transfer four million dollars to my second uncle to buy back his shares.”
Two minutes later.
Anthony received a text message on his cell phone. He picked up his cell and took a look. He was wide-eyed when he saw four million dollars had been deposited into his account.
Was this four million dollars real? Was the company not running out of money?
Ryan took the agreement from Anthony and walked up to Jonathan. “It’s your turn now, Uncle Jonathan.”
“Aunt?”
“Uncle Jerome?”
…
All those relatives present in the living room appeared reluctant. But they still signed the share transfer agreements under compulsion, and Patricia transferred the money to them.
In less than twenty minutes, all relatives in the living room had put down their signatures, including that of Grandma, who owned thirteen percent of the company.
Ryan placed the agreements on the table and let out a smile of satisfaction. “Uncle Anthony has signed on behalf of Raymond for his shares. Who else has not signed the share transfer agreement?”
No one spoke. They looked at each other, feeling frustrated with question marks in mind.
This was not logical at all.
The company apparently had a thirty-million-dollar deficit. How could it come up with $20 million to buy back their shares?
“Fine. Now that the company has bought back all of your shares, I hereby announce that you all no longer enjoy the rights of shareholders. Aunt Lilian, you are no longer a departmental manager. Uncle Jerome, you are no longer the purchasing manager.” Ryan had a clear picture of the company’s organizational structure when he checked his phone just now.
Jerome and Jonathan were reluctant to leave the company, which had hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue and from which they could siphon a lot of money every year.
Ryan moved his fingers over his cell phone and sent a text message to Jonathan and Jerome. “Check your phone before you two decide not to resign.”
Leery of what Ryan said, Jerome opened the message on his cell mobile phone. It was a photo—nothing special, just a young and beautiful woman with an apron on her body.
His face changed drastically. He quickly deleted that photo while trying to remain calm. “I will resign. I am old and should give way to young people.”
His wife looked at him suspiciously and nudged him with her elbow. “Are you stupid or something?”
Jerome could not help it. Did he not have the right to resign now?
The photo Ryan sent him just now was of his mistress. He was not sure how Ryan found out his secret, but one thing was sure—his wife would rip him apart if Ryan exposed him.
Now Jonathan had also agreed to resign.
Lilian had shut up.
…
In less than an hour, the ploy to force Lumi to give up her position as the company’s president had come back to bite them. Not only had the plans of Grandma, Raymond and others failed, but under Ryan’s help, Lumi had struck back and bought all the shares of these relatives at a cheap price.
Lumi was at last in complete control of the company after kicking those relatives out of the company.
After putting the contract back in the car, Ryan realized everyone was staring at him. So he waved at them. “Stop staring. Let’s eat, or else the food will turn cold.”
Not bothering to check their expressions, he started to dig in.
Lumi sat beside and looked over at him in admiration. It turned out the useless husband that her grandpa was adamant for her to marry was not useless at all.
Today, Ryan had effortlessly resolved the impasse.
Grandma, her uncles, and aunts all looked down in the dumps the entire time. But Ryan and Lumi could not care less. “We have finished our meals. Once again, we wish you a happy birthday, Grandma, and all the best, our uncles and aunts.”
Ryan had a smile on his face when he said that, as if he was going somewhere and would not come back again.
Somewhere deep inside Grandma, Lumi’s uncles, and others knew that their scheme today had saddened both Ryan and Lumi.
Ryan had shown enough respect for Grandma by giving her a pair of $30-million star ruby earrings. After buying back all the shares, he wanted Lumi to have nothing else to do with these so-called relatives.
At last, Grandma opened her mouth when Ryan and Lumi were leaving. “I have one last question for you, Lumi: isn’t the company running out of money? Where did you get the twenty million dollars from?”
She wanted to know why she failed.
