Chapter 15
The war room in Apex Tower became their permanent home,
for the next twenty four highly stressful and chaotic hours,
as they completely mobilized their massive corporate army.
Jacqueline operated with a terrifying and cold efficiency,
barking precise orders to her exhausted financial analysts,
and manipulating the global stock market with brilliant strategy.
She authorized the immediate release of massive reserve funds,
buying back millions of shares at a highly inflated premium,
completely destroying Julian's carefully planned hostile margins.
Alexander used his deep and highly secretive government connections,
launching a massive quiet investigation into Vanguard Group,
digging up every single dirty and illegal secret they possessed.
They ordered expensive takeout food from a local Italian restaurant,
eating cold pizza directly out of the greasy cardboard boxes,
while staring endlessly at the glowing red and green stock tickers.
Julian is incredibly sloppy and overly emotional right now,
Jacqueline observed quietly,
pointing at a massive and highly erratic trading pattern on the screen.
He is completely desperate to prove his worth to his new bosses,
and he is taking massive unnecessary risks with their capital.
We can use his massive inflated ego directly against him,
Alexander agreed smoothly,
standing behind her chair and massaging her tense tight shoulders.
If we leak a completely false financial vulnerability to the press,
he will take the bait and overextend his credit limits instantly.
It was a highly dangerous and incredibly risky corporate trap,
but Jacqueline trusted Alexander's brilliant tactical mind completely,
and she immediately gave the order to execute the dark plan.
They planted a completely fake but highly realistic internal memo,
suggesting that Thorne Industries was completely out of liquid cash,
and sent it directly to a journalist known to be on Vanguard's payroll.
Within three hours the fake news had completely hit the wire,
and the financial markets reacted with a massive and sudden panic,
causing Thorne Industries stock to temporarily plummet in value.
Jacqueline watched the dropping numbers with a completely calm expression,
holding Alexander's warm hand tightly under the large wooden table,
waiting patiently for Julian to make his massive fatal mistake.
And just as they had brilliantly and accurately predicted,
Julian completely took the highly deceptive and shiny bait,
authorizing a massive and completely leveraged stock purchase order.
He borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from an external bank,
using Vanguard's primary core assets as the absolute only collateral,
betting absolutely everything on completely destroying Jacqueline.
We have him exactly where we want him,
Alexander whispered darkly into her ear,
his voice vibrating with intense and highly predatory satisfaction.
Execute the massive counter measure right this exact second,
Jacqueline ordered her completely exhausted but highly loyal team,
her voice ringing with absolute and undeniable pure authority.
Thorne Industries instantly released their actual audited quarterly earnings,
showing a massive and record breaking completely unprecedented profit margin,
proving the previous leaked memo was a complete and total lie.
The stock price immediately skyrocketed to an all time massive high,
completely trapping Julian in a massively over leveraged short position,
and instantly losing Vanguard Group hundreds of millions of dollars.
The trap had sprung with completely flawless and lethal precision,
and the hostile takeover attempt was completely and utterly crushed,
dying a miserable and highly expensive public corporate death.
Jacqueline leaned back in her expensive leather executive chair,
letting out a long and highly satisfied breath of pure relief,
knowing that she had just completely ruined her ex forever.
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Julian Vance was officially and completely financially dead,
and he had absolutely no one to blame but his own stupid greed.
