Christophe frowned. “What?”Jeanette wriggled out of the two guards’ arms, walked toward him, and whispered something in his ears. It made Christophe freeze as the creases in his eyebrows deepened.“You’re making this up!”“Damon wanted me to pass it to you,” Jeanette replied calmly. “You’ll see.”Christophe’s attention pivoted from Jeanette to the stakeholders around them. He was vacillating between choices that no one else in the room understood.One of the stakeholders was getting impati
“I know how hard this is for you, Dad, but Damon was adamant that this is the only way—right now, in this critical juncture—for our family to maintain our hold over our family business. It’s the only solution we have left to survive this crisis.” Jeanette pointed out emphatically.Christophe’s eyebrows remained locked together in boiling frustration. “How do you expect us to stomach this!? You’re telling me that there isn’t anyone else, not a single one person in this entire Godfrey Group, who
They fell into steps before the door to the meeting room. Jeanette was about to step in when Christophe suddenly paused and grumbled. “Don’t try any trick, Jeanette Leighton.”Jeanette smiled mirthlessly. At the end of the day, her father-in-law still remembered to warn her like a potential enemy.She could only answer, “I know, Dad. I know.”Christophe finally reached out and pushed the door open.The stakeholders had been simmering in their impatience for too long that they practically gla
“Mimi, you dumb*ss! Stupid, stupid, stupid! You mean nothing to him! Zero! Just… Just a piece of nothing! So why do you care about him this much, Mimi, despite everything?”Mimi was apoplectic, but a lot of it came not from a golden chance lost—it came mostly from the anguish of a profound heartache.All he had done was call her, and it was apparently enough to make her give up everything. But what did her sacrifice ever mean to Elias?It meant she was just a woman he could summon on a whim
She was the biggest punchline in the world. She had doomed herself over a man who never thought she meant anything.She was the biggest f*cking idiot on the entire planet.…There was a collective of sharp inhales in the Godfrey Group meeting room after Christophe made his announcement. They even intuitively thought they might have misheard something.Xavier’s eyes were popping wide. His face was a portrait of disbelief.Then, disbelief mutated into pure spleen. “What are you talking about,
Christophe broke out a snicker, which portended how little he cared about saving that man’s face. Despite the company coming to such a critical juncture, and all these rats could think about was to drool all over being the CEO, could they not?Well, well, well. Christophe was going to teach these people a lesson—not everyone could be the CEO of the Godfrey Group. Few people even had the qualifications to aim for it.“Oh? Is that what all of you think, then? Fancy yourselves sincere, good, co
It was palpable from how ballistic he was that Xavier took the unexpected turn of events very ungracefully. He was practically shouting in the meeting room until his face turned blue.To Christophe, his bluster was so embarrassing it raised his ire. As his anger ballooned, Christophe scowled, taking a deep breath in an effort to press his flames from erupting out of him while so many of his business acquaintances were watching.“Xavier Godfrey, behave yourself and sit down!” he chided.“I won
Xavier was stunned. "But… I thought when Damon left his position as the CEO, I would be the new CEO of the Godfrey Group…"Christophe sighed and shook his head, rather disappointed.He had always loved his youngest son the most because the child was a sweet talker and always knew how to make others happy since he was young.However, Xavier had never been up for it. Although he was smart, he had never been good at studies since he was a child. He had only managed to enter a prestigious univers