Chapter 61

XANDER

I sighed out as I watched Silvana leave with Mr Greg, before turning to Mr Sheffield.

"Good job." I told him.

"Where are the pictures and videos?" He asked hastily and I smirked.

Silvana's sudden appearance at the construction site which led her to finding out the actual supply company we purchased materials from was a big shock and headache. Worse, she scheduled a meeting with Mr Sheffield. Thankfully, the meeting was today not yesterday, so I had enough time to gets something on him, which were pictures of him and his mistress.

Guy even had to visit his mistress at his hotel, and I was able go get pictures of the both of them, which I used against him. He succumbed to my request to lie about having no material stock, because having the picture leaked to his wife would have great effect on his life, cause his wife's family were his backbone and strength.

Thinking about it, isn't he stupid to cheat when he is actually nothing without his wife? Anyways, that's not my problem. I got what I needed thanks to his cheating.

I began deleting the pictures and videos of him and his mistress before showing him my phone. "See that? All clear."

"How can I trust that you don't have other copies of it?" His gaze swept through my face skeptically making me chuckle.

"Believing this will keep you at rest." I said with a wink before standing up and without another word, I walked out of the office, heading straight for my car in the parking lot.

It wasn't up to ab hour after I got back to the company when Benita rushed in with her laptop.

"Boss, you need to see this!" She rushed to stand beside me then she placed laptop in front of me. My eyes went to the laptop as I read through it.

"What the hell his this?" A frown contorted on my face when I saw a mail from Mr Greg saying we would change our supply company to another one, and... from Italy?

"That's not all, she even asked us to return ten percent of the funds she gave us since we didn't purchase from Devan Supplies."

"What! The hell is wrong with Silvana?!" I yelled in annoyance as I read the message over and over again. That witch! What stunt is she tryna pull right now?

"You know what?" I faced Benita who immediately became serious. "Return ten percent of the materials we purchased from Devan Supplies. Tell them it's not to our taste."

"Will get on to it immediately." She said and I nodded. That's it... that is what I should do, I can lose money because of Silvana's craziness.

"You can go." I tossed her laptop on her hand and she bowed, before walking out of the office.

My gaze went to a file on the desk and I sighed. Taking it, I opened it to see the list of Hardins Corp shareholders names. With Silvana's recent wild behaviors, I have to result to this - buying shares. Silvana owns Fifty five percent of the company, leaving forty five to the company. I only have five percent shares, and to be able to take over the company, I need to have at least twenty five percent of the forty five.

My plan was to buy the shares, but I was short it money. The amount I have right now could only buy another five percent of the shares. Reed secretly has three percent shares. If we were to calculate the amount of shares I have and the amount I can buy together with Reed's shares, I would have thirteen percent. I still needed twelve percent of the shares to become the highest shareholder after Silvana. My dad also has his own shares, but I doubt he would give them to me since he seems to love Silvana so much.Just the thought of it made me nauseous. He should just take her as his daughter then.

Rolling my eyes, I sighed out. A knock sounded on the door.

"Come in." I spoke up.

The door opened, and the person I didn't expect to see came in.

"Mr Richardson." I called out, with a surprised look. He settled down, a smirk on his face. "Are you surprised?"

"Yeah... I am." I nodded and he nodded. "Good, then you know why I'm here, right?"

"Huh?" I uttered feigning ignorance. Of course, I do, he was surely here to ask me about my plans and why I haven't done anything.

Like I expected, he spoke up. "I see you have not been doing anything. I heard what's being going on."

Clearing my throat, I passed him a smile. "I'm not sure what you're saying but everything is under control."

"Oh, really? I don't think so." His eyes travelled round the whole office before landing on me, his gaze serious as he sighed. "I don't even know why I decided to get on you. You can't even take control of this company."

I clenched my fists, gazing at him as I tried to keep myself in check. This bastard. Who does he think he is?

We continued staring at each other before I broke it, smiling instead.

"I have a plan, but I will need your help." I pushed the file towards him and his brows furrowed. "What's this?"

"The shareholders list. I'm planning to buy enough shares to become the highest shareholder after Silvana. That way, I can become the CEO after a huge hit against Silvana."

"And what's the hit?" He looked up at me and I smirked. "You will know soon, I just need your help to get the shares. How about making me a representative for half of your shares for a certain period?" I asked with raised brows.

He frowned, scoffing. "What? I should give you my shares?"

"Make me your representative, don't worry it's gonna be in a an agreement form. I get to return the right after some months. I'm sure I will be able to finish Silvan off before then." I said and pushed another file towards him. "I already prepared the agreement form."

His brows raised but he said nothing and I just kept staring as he read through the form.

"What if this goes wrong?" He finally asked after some minutes of unbearable silence.

"Like I said, your shares still remain yours." I replied and a smile finally stretched up on his stoic face.

"Okay then, let's do this." He nodded and I smiled.

Right. Let's do this.