Chapter 14
The peace of the island was violently shattered on Monday,
when Jacqueline's encrypted mobile phone rang loudly,
waking them up before the sun had even fully risen.
She answered the urgent call with a groggy voice,
listening to her chief financial officer speak in total panic,
explaining a massive and highly coordinated financial attack.
A rival conglomerate known as the Vanguard Group,
had just launched a massive hostile takeover attempt,
targeting one of Thorne Industries most profitable subsidiaries.
Jacqueline sat up completely straight in the massive bed,
all traces of sleep vanishing from her sharp mind,
replaced by a cold and calculating ruthless focus.
Get the legal team into the main conference room right now,
she ordered sharply into the phone receiver,
and freeze all external trading on the subsidiary stock immediately.
She hung up the phone and turned to look at Alexander,
who was already out of bed and pulling on his dark trousers,
his face set into a terrifying mask of pure lethal anger.
Vanguard is making a highly aggressive move,
she explained quickly while rushing to the massive closet,
they are trying to exploit the confusion of our recent merger.
They have made a massive and fatal miscalculation,
Alexander growled softly,
buttoning his crisp white dress shirt with rapid jerky movements.
We are flying back to the city right this second,
and we are going to absolutely destroy them for this insult.
The helicopter ride back to Washington was totally silent,
filled with a tense and highly explosive dark energy,
as they both formulated complex strategies in their brilliant minds.
They walked into Apex Tower like two conquering gods of war,
ignoring the terrified whispers of their scrambling employees,
and marching directly into the massive glass conference room.
The legal and financial teams were already frantically working,
surrounded by massive stacks of highly sensitive documents,
and dozens of glowing computer monitors showing stock charts.
Give me a full and detailed situation report immediately,
Jacqueline commanded as she took her seat at the head table,
her voice echoing loudly in the quiet and tense room.
The lead attorney stood up with trembling hands,
explaining that Vanguard had secretly acquired massive blocks of stock,
using dozens of hidden offshore shell companies to mask their identity.
They are planning to call an emergency shareholder vote tomorrow,
the attorney said nervously,
sweat beading on his pale and highly stressed forehead.
They want to force a massive liquidation of the primary assets,
and completely dismantle the logistics network we just built.
Alexander slammed his heavy fist onto the mahogany table,
the loud cracking sound making several people violently flinch,
his gray eyes blazing with unchecked and pure corporate fury.
Who is leading this pathetic and suicidal charge for Vanguard,
he demanded in a voice that promised absolute total destruction,
wanting a specific name to target with his wrath.
The chief financial officer swallowed hard before answering,
pulling up a digital profile on the massive presentation screen,
revealing a face that made Jacqueline's blood run completely cold.
It is a newly hired external corporate acquisitions director,
the officer explained quietly to the completely silent room,
a man by the name of Julian Vance.
Jacqueline stared at the massive projected image of her ex,
feeling a sudden and violent surge of pure unadulterated rage,
burning through her veins like highly explosive rocket fuel.
Julian had returned from his pathetic and miserable exile,
seeking completely petty and highly destructive bitter revenge,
trying to tear down the massive empire she had just built.
Alexander looked at Jacqueline with intense and dark concern,
but he saw absolutely no fear in her beautiful sharp eyes,
only a cold and lethal promise of absolute total annihilation.
Let him try to take my company away from me,
Jacqueline whispered with a dark and terrifying wicked smile,
May you like
I am going to completely bury him so deep this time,
that he will never see the light of the sun ever again.
