Chapter 17- The Target For A Lot Of Criticism
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Kelvin finally simmered down after his brief but angry outburst. He said through clenched teeth, “Well, I’ll see to it at once. Elvis will certainly get killed this time!”
“Look, Mom and Dad! Mandy has found investors! They’ve invested 800 million dollars in Greens Jewelers in total! What a lucky bastard Mandy is!”
Just then, Daniel yelled, walking rapidly into the living room with his phone.
Taking over his phone, Kelvin and Shirley carefully browsed the news online. The next moment, their faces clouded over, and their emotions were on the verge of being out of control again.
“Damn it! I’ll never make her life easier.” Shirley said, her teeth clenched in hate.
Shirley was always hostile to the devoted Mandy. Because even though thousands were against Elvis, Mandy had been standing by him, which emphasized that Shirley was a merciless wife. And that’s why Shirley wanted Mandy and Elvis to be killed together.
“Tell Levi to give Green Group a hard time,” Shirley ordered.
Even though Mandy and Elvis could be lucky enough to survive this time, she would sap Green Group badly, costing their dear.
As early as when Simon had been in good health, Shirley had bought over lots of his men. Among them, Levi was the first one to defect to Shirley. As soon as Levi received the order, he immediately drove to Maria’s house with his men.
Getting out of the car, Levi led his men straight in through the main door. Scared by what they saw, Maria’s bodyguards didn’t dare to resist.
At this time, Maria was buried in the company’s affairs. She got a big shock when Levi broke in.
“Hi, Mrs. Green, how have you been? Haven’t seen you for some time?” Levi said, flashing Maria a false smile.
“It’s really been a long time. But what business have you come here for, Levi?” said Maria. Shocked by Levi’s domineering manner, she subconsciously gripped her cane, her palms sweaty.
“It’s said that Greens Jewelers has got a huge investment recently. So we’re here to congratulate you. But Green Group hasn’t delivered the required goods to us yet. Are you going to break the contract without an authorization?” Levi snapped at Maria, the smiling face on his face was stiff to become diamond dust. His real intention was revealed in the end.
“None of your nonsense! It’s you who renounced the cooperation with Green Group!” Maria raged.
At that time, because Vanguard Group was more powerful than Green Group, it had renounced the cooperation with the latter without authorization. So now, how dare they come round to make unwarranted charges!
“Do you have positive evidence to prove it?” Levi snorted contemptuously, “The contract provides that you must pay 2 billion dollars liquidated damages if the goods are not delivered on time.”
‘In modern legal society, the court needed the proof. This was known to all.’ Levi sneered in mind.
“Don’t go too far, you bastards!” Maria stormed, a tide of rage surging through her.
She tried to hit Levi with her cane. However, Levi knocked her cane away with one hand and pushed her over.
“You’re no match for me in a fight. I’m warning you; if you don’t pay the liquidated damages within one day, we’ll go to law against you. We’ll sue your pants off!” With those words, Levi left with his men.
“Damn it! How dare you talk down to me like this?” Sitting on the floor, Maria yelled at the top of her voice, her hair awry.
She could feel the anger growing, bubbling up inside her. And the next moment, she fell over in a faint.
Seeing that, the servants hurried to get her on the couch.
After a long time, under the care of the servants, Maria finally regained consciousness. Thinking of what had just happened, she could be unable to restrain her fury. So she immediately decided to call a family meeting at once.
“What’s going on? Why are there so many family meetings recently?”
“Is there anything wrong with Greens Jewelers again?”
When the top executives of Green Group heard from Maria, they were full of doubt. However, since Maria held a position of power in the family, none of them dared to go against her will. Not daring to delay a moment, they drove to Maria’s home in a hurry.
When Mandy, who was busy with work in Greens Jewelers, heard from Maria, her frown deepened. Because every time Maria held a family meeting, she and Elvis were directed against by all her family.
Now she had a lot of work to do, for Greens Jewelers must be reopened as soon as possible. And at the same time, she was facing all kinds of difficulties and obstacles set up by Gordon.
Maria was harsh towards her and Elvis, but at all events, she was her grandma. At the thought of that, Mandy sighed with profound resignation, and then went to Maria’s home with Elvis.
Gathering in the living room again, the top executives of Green Group looked at each other, shaking their heads doubtfully. Different from the last family meeting, all of them did have no idea of the reason for this emergency meeting. But now, the anger on Maria’s was so obvious that none of them dared to speak out their doubts.
“Since we are all here, let’s begin our meeting. A short time ago, Levi, the manager of Vanguard Group came round to ask for the liquidated damages…” Maria gave a detailed account of what had just happened. However, she concealed that she had been pushed onto the ground by Levi.
As she spoke, she glared at Elvis from time to time, wanting to blow his head off on the spot.
“How could he be so arrogant? Although the Georges is more powerful than our family, we will never let them bully us at will! But all of this is because of Elvis. If it wasn’t for him, Vanguard Group wouldn’t have renounced the cooperation with us, and now we wouldn’t have been asked to pay the liquidated damages!” After having hesitated for a moment, Gordon came forward and said.
“Yes, it’s all because of Elvis!”
“If it wasn’t for him, Vanguard Group would still be our partner!”
“He will be the ruin of our family!”
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Upon hearing Gordon’s words, the top executives of Green Group began to blame Elvis one after another.
Suddenly, Elvis, as well as Mandy, became the target for a lot of criticism.
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