Chapter 198 Board Meeting


    The three looked at her in amazement, surprised to hear that she would agree to let her off.


    "What condition?" asked Sean quickly.


    "You will have to give Horace half of yourpany''s stakes," said ra emphatically.


    ra remembered that Russell had told her it had been the result of Sean''s plot that Horace didn''t own


    any shares of thepany, so she thought of the idea to benefit Horace.


    "No way ever!" Sean blurted out instinctively.


    "Then don''t even think about Ashlee and her baby will be fine," ra responded with the same


    determination.


    Sean''s face soon turned pale.


    Meanwhile, Horace was also surprised to hear the requirement.


    He had never expected ra to know any of those stuff, and he was also surprised that she would


    have done that for him.


    Sean and Darren hesitated for some time before they finally said reluctantly, "Fine, I agree, Horace, let


    go of Ashlee."


    After all, Ashlee''s baby was more important to them than anything else.


    But Horace ignored them and turned to ra with his eyebrows knitted, "Ashlee has done those


    horrible things to you, and deserves punishment, so you won''t have to let her off the hook because of


    me."


    ra smiled and said, "I''m fine. I just really want to do something for you."


    Horace relented.


    Ashlee was saved, but thepany was gone and ra soon learned that Glenn fled abroad because


    of debt.


    The next day, Russell came to visit them the first time since her fake pregnancy.


    Russell showed his concern about ra''s health, without mentioning a single word about the


    pregnancy.


    The nicer Russell was, the guiltier ra felt.


    ra sat across him and kept apologizing to him.


    "I''m so sorry... I disappointed you."


    "Sweetie," Russell said to ra with a loving tone, "This is not your fault. I already knew everything and


    what Ashlee and Sean had done. Hell, I had no idea Sean, that jerk, would have done such thing. He''s


    a shame of the family."


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    To stop her from feeling sad, he changed the topic and talked about the shares instead. He looked at


    ra appreciatively.


    "Thank you, I felt so much relieved now."


    ra looked more energetic thinking of that, and said, "It''s useless to keep her around anyway, now


    that they want her, then I thought I would just sell her for something, to make Sean and Darren feel


    indebted and appreciate, and then get some stocks back. It would also make it more convincing for


    Horace to hold the stakes."


    "Good kid," Russell said to her with a touched look, "You are too kind and always nice to others. You


    always think about others, what about yourself?"


    "Me?" ra froze for two seconds, and thenughed. "What is there to think about?"


    "You aren''t worried that Ashlee will take revenge?" Russell shook his head. "Anyway, be careful."


    Russell soon left. When he''s gone, ra mused over what he had said.


    Afraid of Ashlee? And her revenge?


    So what?


    As long as she had Horace, that would be enough.


    The incident was pretty much over, and since Sean, Darren and Ashlee had stopped making trouble for


    ra, she had been living a peaceful life.


    Horace had made her rest at home for a couple of days and as a journalist, the only way for ra to kill


    time was to check twitter.


    While she was scrolling down the feeds, she posted something mncholy, "I used to think I had it, but


    it turned out be a bubble."


    When she was to log off, she saw a direct message sent to her ount.


    It was from the ount "Back2Past", which had posted something about Laura before.


    Why would it send her a private message?


    ra clicked it open.


    "Don''t be sad. Anything which doesn''t belong to you will end up going away. No need to get obsessed


    with it."


    ra replied, "OK, thanks."


    Back2Past: "Not at all, I just feel like saying that to you."


    ra said, "Thanks for yourforting. I''ll get myself back together again."


    ra guessed it was a girl, and when she thought about thement on herst post, she couldn''t


    help but ask, "Are you a girl? How do you know about Horace and his ex-girlfriend?"


    Unfortunately, the conversation ended at that question.


    It seemed to evade that question deliberately without any reply.


    ra felt it was a little weird but it seemed to have been offline, so she stopped questioning.


    She thought she''d wait until she''s online again next time.


    ra was so curious about who she could be.


    Meanwhile, at the board meeting of Kirnd Group.


    Sean and Darren had been such a underdog in front of ra. The position they were bound to get had


    just gone within a blink. All of his subsidiaries were on the verge of bankruptcy, so he had to hold a


    emergency board meeting to secure the market and the morale.


    It was probably a signal of some iing actions taken by Horace,


    The idea made Sean feel sick, as if Horace was some kind of venomous snake lurking in the grass,


    having disguised himself, lurking in the dark. And once he got tired, Horace would give him a lethal


    attack.


    Sean felt chills from his sweaty back at the thought of that. He felt like walking on the eggshell and he


    was restive.


    The foreboding did make sense.


    When Sean was excitedly giving his speech, the door of the meeting room was opened.


    There came Isaac pushing Horace in.


    Sean was startled, and then furious. This man wouldn''t even give him a window to draw a breath?


    In order to conceal his agitation inside so he wouldn''t seem weak to the board, he gave the table a p


    and quickly rose to his feet, sneered, "What are you doing here in our meeting, Horace? You should


    behave yourself better! Even though you''re a member of the Kirnds, it doesn''t mean that you can


    just walk in and out here as the president of anotherpany, and steal our confidential information."


    The members who were on Sean''s side nodded approvingly and expressed their support.


    Sean felt greatly relieved as he saw the board taking his side, waiting to see Horace make a fool of


    himself.


    Isaac couldn''t take it anymore.


    Were those fossils blind? They would rather support the more controble Sean than the more


    Isaac was indignant while Horace seemed impassive, saying, "I''ve got half of thepany''s stakes,


    and that wouldn''t qualify me to join the meeting?"


    The words sent the board paling.


    Horace ignored them, wheeled himself next to Sean, nced at the proposal Sean had just been


    presenting, and sniffed, "Mr. Kirnd''s proposal sounds perfect, but...totally unfeasible."