Chapter 698 You Leave Me No Choice.
"Mr. Ross, what makes you so confident that you can negotiate with me at the table?" Fiona stared at Mr. Ross and asked word by word. "Let me say it one more time, your only choices are to accept this contract or end this cooperation."
"Fiona, do you have to bring personal grievances like this into our professional cooperation?" Kevin asked in a deep voice.
"Mr. Kevin and Miss Annie took advantage of this collaboration and indirectly caused Mr. Solomon's disappearance. When Annie did all this, why didn't you advise her to be more professional? And now you’re screaming at us?" Henry suddenly spoke up. "On the day Fiona was in danger herself, she saved Miss Annie's life and rendered good for evil. And now, you treat Fiona, who saved Miss Annie's life, with this kind of attitude?"
Kevin was reprimanded by Henry.
Kevin's face turned pale.
The entire Ross family fell into a strange silence.
Mr. Ross stared at the contract in his hand.
According to the content, aside from changes to the profit portion, the operations and core data were impenetrable to the Ross family.
The operations before stated that Solomon and the Ross family would work together.
The techniques needed in this project relied on Solomon Energy, and under the previous contract, the Ross family's technical department could collaborate with Solomon Energy in research and development.
Now, Fiona deleted this clause.
The Ross family suddenly felt like they were being roasted.
Mr. Ross also remembered the words of Robert's father, saying that Darwin's wife had gone crazy.
If they gave up the collaboration, the Ross family would inevitably fall into a sharp decline in income.
Furthermore, without the restraint of the collaboration, if Fiona suddenly went insane and started besieging the Ross family, that would be troublesome.
Now, Fiona has support from the Rhoads family behind her, as well as the enormous wealth Darwin left for her.
Even if Fiona used money to crush the Ross family, she could destroy them.
If they continue the collaboration, it would be a great humiliation for the entire Ross family.
"I need some time to consider," Mr. Ross reluctantly said.
Fiona looked at the time. "I have another meeting in about three hours. Let's not waste each other's time too much. Three hours should be enough for everyone to discuss and weigh the pros and cons."
With that, Fiona got up straight away, not looking back, and left the meeting room with Solomon's people.
Inside the meeting room, no one from the Ross family spoke first. There was an eerie silence hanging in the air.
Finally, it was Kevin who broke the silence. "If we compromise this time, Fiona will surely take advantage and become more and more unreasonable in the future!"
If Fiona agreed to spare Annie this time, it might not be unacceptable to make some concessions.
But Fiona didn't want to spare Annie and wanted to take advantage of all this. Where did such a good deal come from?
"Kevin, did you think we had a choice now? I have a question that I wanted to ask for a long time. Weren't you Annie's right-hand man? Didn't you notice what Annie was doing, going to such extremes?"
"Yeah, just now, you kept provoking Fiona. Initially, her attitude wasn't like this. It's you who kept being rude and pushing her to take responsibility!"
A crack had formed.
The infuriated crowd turned their focus on Kevin, who used to be Annie's assistant.
"If you had discovered Annie's actions in a timely manner and stopped her from doing this harmful thing, we could have had a 25% profit and could have sent our technical personnel to Solomon Energy to learn their advanced techniques!"
Kevin's forehead furrowed.
These people were not like this before Miss Annie got into trouble!
"OK, since you all doubt me like this, I resign. You can decide how to proceed with this matter."
"Enough!" Mr. Ross slammed the table hard.
The noisy crowd gradually quieted down.
"What's the use of investigating all this now?" Mr. Ross scolded angrily. "Over the years, under Darwin's support, all of you have been living too comfortably, making plenty of money every year thanks to Solomon. You haven't developed any new business. My Ross family, in just a few years, has fallen to the point of needing to rely on Solomon and Darwin to survive! How could Fiona feel so confident in manipulating us if not for this?"
Mr. Ross's health had worsened over the years.
He gradually handed over his power to his children.
But not many of them were useful.
Hathaway was originally good, but she was consumed by love, which led to her untimely death.
Annie.
Thinking of Annie made Mr. Ross even angrier!
Two years ago, he realized that he couldn't keep depending on Solomon to survive, so he had a long conversation with Annie.
Annie had very detailed plans for the future of the Ross family.
She intended to reduce their reliance on Solomon within five years gradually.
But now.
Annie had been arrested, and Mr. Ross couldn't even bring her back to the country.
Even though he knew about Annie's plans.
But within the family, no one like Annie could strategize!
Thinking of this, Mr. Ross felt a suffocating sensation.
He immediately took out some heart medication and swallowed a few pills.
Kevin stood there, thinking of the message Annie had asked him to convey to Mr. Ross when he had gone to see her before.
To be honest, he didn't want to say it.
But considering the current situation.
"Chairman, Annie has a message for you," he said, "If we cannot burn our boats, then we must temporarily swallow our pride and preserve our strength."
"How dare Annie say such things?" The people in the Ross family were instantly furious. "If she weren't such a fool, would we have to choose between burning the boats and swallowing our pride?"
Kevin's face turned cold. "I'll say it bluntly. Without Annie these past few years, relying on all of you sitting here, the Ross family would have been in decline!"
Seeing that these people were about to start arguing again.
Mr. Ross stared at the contract in his hand and had already made up his mind.
Fiona did not lie to Mr. Ross.
She really did have a meeting to attend today.
Two years ago, Darwin bought a prime location in the Pacific with excellent views and planned to build a high-end island resort.
After a year and a half of extensive design work, they were now about to enter the construction phase.
Before construction could begin, many things still needed to be finalized.
Fiona's last major infrastructure project was the New Port project.
Countless departments needed to be coordinated.
This was Fiona's first meeting for this project, and most of the time, she just listened to reports from various departments and rarely spoke.
As the meeting was nearing its end.
Fiona asked, "Have the indigenous people on the island been settled?"
The person in charge of this area looked somewhat embarrassed. "Most of them have been arranged, but a few originally operated homestays on the island and are still under discussion."
When it comes to projects like this.
Obstacles in relocation are common.
"What are their demands?" Fiona asked.
"They want to keep their homestays," the person in charge said, "but our definition of the resort is to serve clients with an annual income in the millions, a high-end private resort. It's not possible to keep accommodations with an average price of only 500 dollars." "
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