Chapter 13 Termination of Coboration
“Notify the Affairs Department that we are terminating our coboration with the Hale Cobb Law Firm.”
Peter said in a deep voice.
“OK. I’ll get right on it.” Noah couldn’t make it out why his boss made such a sudden move, but he
would never dare to disobey Peter''s orders.
It''s just ...
After a while, Noah said, “Sir, the owner of Hale Cobb Law Firm is your fiancée’s best friend. I fear that
this may ... may damage their rtionship.”
“Inform the Legal Affairs Department that we’ll pay double indemnity.” Peter announced firmly.
...
In the afternoon, at the Hale Cobb Law Firm.
Adriana looked at the people in front of her, confused. “Is there anything wrong, Mr. Holman?”
Noah and thewyer next to him made a quick eye contact, then thewyer took out a contract from his
briefcase.
“Well, ording to our assessment, yourpany doesn’t seem to meet our standards of cooperation,
so the Board of Directors decided to terminate the coboration. As for the penalty charge, we’ll pay
you doublepensation.”
He handed a notice of the breach of contract to Adriana.
Her brows were furrowed in deep concentration—she didn’t see thating this quickly.
She took a look at the notice. The original settlement with Horizon Global was twenty million, but now
they generously offered forty.
“As far as we know, yourpany was founded fairly recently in Waverly. Your yearly ie is about
ten million. After subtracting your expenses, we don’t think you’re able to earn forty million in three
years.”
Noah said to her.
She had to say, forty thousand grand was indeed a big figure, and she couldn’t deny that she was
beguiled at first.
But she had always stuck to her principles.
“Well well, very impressive, Mr. Holman. You seem to be quite acquainted with our financial
transactions.”
Adriana handed him another contract, “This one, right?”
Noah took it and turned a few pages to check, then nodded, “Yes.”
“OK.”
Adriana nodded, took the contract back, and then dropped the two files into the shredder, which soon
turned into scraps.
“Excuse me, Mr. Hale?” Noah stood up and eximed.
Adriana said calmly with her hands in her pockets, “Tell Peter, we intend to terminate the contract
anyway. Now, we have the best of both worlds, really.”
When they left, Vivian closed the door and went up to Adriana, “Mr. Hale, what happened?”
Something wiped the smile off Adriana''s face. She had her elbows on the desk, hands holding her
forehead. “I think I need time alone to think right now, thank you.”
Vivian wanted to say something but the words just wouldn''te out of her mouth, so she turned
around to leave the office and closed the door.
“Asshole!”
Adriana said through clenched teeth the moment the door was shut,
Lately Adriana had been trying to avoid Luis, but Peter''s still using her of this. She had also thought
about terminating the contract, but she couldn’t afford to pay the huge indemnity.
She didn’t expect that Horizon Global would bring it up first, even with doublepensation. Were they
trying to see if she''s a greedy person?
If she epted the money, that will only confirm all his prejudice towards her: she’s getting close to
Luis in order to hit on Peter; she''s seeking money from the Alston family; she wanted to marry Peter
Alston.
God damn it!
At the same time, Noah had returned to Horizon Global.
In Peter''s office.
Still buried in the files on his desk, Peter asked without looking up, “All done?”
“Sort of.”
Noah answered.
“That was quick. What a snob.” Peter quickly signed the paper, put away the file and said sarcastically.
Noah''s mouth twitched slightly, then he nced at Peter and said, “Miss Hale didn’t ept the money,
instead she dropped the contracts into a shredder.”
“Excuse me? The shredder?” Peter raised his eyebrows, puzzled by what he had just heard, but
suddenly smiled, “ying hard to get? I shouldn’t have underestimated her.”
A bit confused by his words, Noah couldn’t understand what he meant by “ying hard to get”.
After thinking about it for a while, he said, “Miss Hale said, even if you didn''t bring it up, she would
submit a proposal herself. Now that both parties would like to cancel the agreement, she thinks it’s the
best of both worlds.”
Peter''s face darkened when he heard that, “Really? That means money isn''t what she really wants?”
For some reason, it bugged him that things didn’t go his way.
Though he knew she’s Luis''s birth mother, the fact that she worked her ass off to get close to him was
still unforgivable.
“Since Hale Cobb Law Firm is not interested in profiting, we’ll give them a little nudge by breaking off
their business rtions. Get it done right away.”
Noah’s mouth twitched again, and then he asked before he could stop himself, “Are you sure, Sir? After
all, Miss Hale is Lady Theresa''s ...”
Hardly had he finished the sentence when he noticed a piercing gaze from Peter, “Theresa doesn’t
need a friend like her, who would do anything to get what she wants.”
“You''re absolutely right, Sir.” For fear of a reprimand, Noah walked out of the office right away.
Then he asked his subordinates to make arrangements.
In less than two hours, Hale Cobb Law Firm had received dozens of calls to cancel their coboration.
“Mr. Hale, Philia Company, Vezay Group, Borderless Media and three otherpanies have just called
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to cancel as well.”
Vivian dashed into Adriana''s office to report the emergency, then she said quietly, “That would be
twelvepanies in all.”
The running of herpany relied on the profits brought by coboration withrge corporations. If all
of them terminate the contract ... Hale Cobb Law Firm may go bankrupt.
Her eyebrows all tangled in a worried frown. She tried to keep calm by closing her eyes, but her face
went deathly pale.
She was lost in her thoughts for a short time before she went on, “Arrange meetings with their CEOs,
now.”
Obviously, Peter must be the culprit behind all this.
“Okay, Mr. Hale. I’m on it.”
The window wall in Adriana''s office used to be her favorite spot, where there''s a view of the skyline in
Waverly.
But standing in front of it right now, she felt so depressed and let out a long sigh.
There''s another reason why she didn''t ept the 40 thousand grand.
If only Peter were not Theresa’s fiancé, she would definitely take the money.
But the fact was quite the opposite. If she should take it, what would Theresa think of her?
Who knew Peter could be this ruthless!