Chapter 539


    In the end, Alex’s heart sank into the depths of despair. Could this be Elliot’s doing too? Is he trying to


    force Tillman Constructions into bankruptcy so that thepany is ruined in my hands? All of a sudden,


    he was filled with terror and dread. Now that Tillman Constructions was in his hands, it brought him great


    danger instead of money. At the moment, he was under pressure from both the employees and its


    shareholders; his nerves were about to snap as all kinds of pressure bore down on him. If the employees


    couldn’t get their paycheck, he would be their main target.


    As such, Tillman Constructions was plunged into a crisis, with Alex suffering the most as the person in


    the eye of the storm. Before he could enjoy the pleasure brought by power and wealth, he was


    suffocated by the pressure weighing on his chest.


    Such was Elliot’s trick. Instead of making


    Tillman Constructions go bankrupt in one fell swoop, he wanted Alex to go through hell for his greed.


    With Anastasia taking charge of thepany’s finances, whatever decision Alex made had to gain her


    approval. If she were to put a little more pressure on him, he wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.


    This would make him even more anxious, like a cat on a hot tin roof.


    Today, as soon as Alex stepped out of thepany’s entrance, he was approached by three MPVs, from


    which a bunch of reporters suddenly stepped out and blocked his path. “Excuse us, President Hunter,


    but some of Tillman Constructions’ employeesined that their paychecks had been dyed. Can


    we ask if it’s true?”


    “How are you gonna deal with the sry payments?”


    “As Tillman Constructions’ president, you have to give the public an exnation.”


    Alex looked at the cameras that were focused on his face. He stretched out his hand and knocked off


    one of the cameras, saying, “Stop filming! I’m not gonnament on mypany’s affairs.”


    “But some of Tillman Constructions’ employees are staging a protest about this. President Hunter, what


    you gonna do about their dyed paychecks?”


    Just then, the security guards came over and brought Alex into Tillman Constructions’ premises, keeping


    the reporters outside the entrance. Stepping into thepany’s lobby in difiture, Alex said to the


    security guards, “Don’t let the reporters in.”


    Less than ten minutester, Alex was on the news, with a very eye-catching title above his photo. It read,


    ‘Alex Hunter, President of Tillman Constructions, Suspected of Embezzling Huge Sums of Money and


    Dying Paychecks on Purpose.


    Upon seeing this, Alex got so furious that he nearly smashed the iPad in his hands.


    The news story’sment section was full of abuses against him. Alex was a proud man who cared a lot


    about his reputation. At this very moment, however, he was universally condemned like a public enemy.


    It didn’t take long before Erica called to ask him what was going on. Having reached the limit of his


    patience, Alex snapped, ‘What else could it be? I’m now caught between the devil and the deep blue sea


    in order to run thepany for you! Erica, do you still have money in your hands? I still have millions of


    wages to pay out. Could you lend me the money first to help me cope with the emergency?”


    Erica also couldn’t do anything about it, though. “How am I supposed to have so much money? But I still


    have a few of my mom’s cards with me. I don’t know whether there’s money on them, though.”


    “Go check whether there’s still money on the cards, then. However much money there is, wire it over


    first. If the situation goes on, Tillman Constructions will go bankrupt, upon which we get nothing. Not only


    that, but we’ll also be massively in debt.” All Alex wanted was to survive their current predicament and


    seek another project.


    Erica had no choice but to check the bnce on Naomi’s debit cards first. Only then did she find that


    Naomi still had over four million in her bank ount, of which she kept one million and transferred the


    rest to Alex.


    Alex then quickly came to the finance department and had the money credited into thepany’s bank


    ount to alleviate the problem of unpaid sries.


    There wasn’t much money left in the finance department’s bank ount, so the money Erica gave Alex


    was only enough to payst month’s wages. Still, he breathed a soft sigh of relief. Next, he’d have to


    work hard to negotiate business deals and get the projects going


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    Upon receiving a phone call from


    Gregory, Anastasia surmised that Alex had run out of money. The money Alex had credited into the


    company’s bank ount was probably all Naomi and Erica had left.


    What would eventually be of


    Tillman Constructions? Anastasia decided to put the matter aside first and let Alex be distressed over it.


    He brought this on himself, after all, she thought.


    Having no money left for leisure spending, Erica came home from the outside with a weary look on her


    face. She called Mrs. Garner over and had thetter cook dinner for her. Well, I guess I’lly her off after


    she gets her paycheck at the end of this month.