240 Simple Because It Is Her

She didn't want to get mad for that was the plan in the first place but still she ended being angered by the thought that he did things without her.

'Then again I myself decided on so many things without consulting him,' she sighed as she went up to change.

"I'm sorry miss but we were told not to let you out until everyone was home," one maid stopped her from leaving.

She was informed that Timothy and Alissa went out as well but no one knows where they went.

"Do you really want to stop me?" she asked with a sweet smile.

"We're sorry miss we can only stop you."

"Very well," she said before going back up to the room.

They can stop her but she can just leave from a different place.

And since it would be the guards who might stop her she can put them to sleep with her fist, she'd feel better on hitting them than the maids.

*****

Some major shareholders threw stocks of paper in front of Ashton, Gideon and Kyle.

The three of them were present with some of his uncles, even Liam and his other cousins were there.

And with them are the major shareholders and of course Leon and Carla.

Angry looks are being thrown at Ashton.

"Do you want us to pull out as well? We have heard that you threw them out when all they want was an apology for what had happened to miss Carla Ansel," one said in agitated voice.

Indeed Leon has pulled his shares and for the third time since Ashton took over, the company's stocks are falling.

Ashton didn't react and his relatives could only take a look at what was thrown at them.

Gideon has already spoken to them the day before, it was a family meeting and everything was explained and Leon's ambitions were also pointed out.

That he had been eyeing the Empire for a while now, using his daughter at first then now his grand daughter.

That is why they only came here for the formalities.

"An apology? Then shouldn't his grand daughter apologize to my friends as well? She pushed a pregnant woman to the ground endangering the mother and child," Ashton answered back.

Among the major shareholders this one is the one who seemed to support Leon Ansel the most.

"She was of middle class born, we have heard of it and it was her who disrespected miss Carla first. Why must you make the company suffer for such a person?" the man asked.

This man is named Henry Davies.

"Just because someone is born as a middle class doesn't mean that we can look over what miss Carla have done. And that doesn't mean that we can just let everything go because miss Carla is rich," Michael, Ashton's uncle, said.

"Calm down everyone, we are here to talk about the stocks not about who pushed who and who hurt who," Gideon raised his hand and said.

"Isn't that the core of all these problem? Because of what had happened someone who had been with us for so long could only do such measures," another shareholder said.

"The matter at hand is about how we can ask sir Leon Ansel to revoke what he had just done," the other remaining said.

Leon once again scoffed, "Not until that woman is out of sight will I revoke what I have done."

He was holding his nose high as he said this for he knew that he didn't need them but instead they needed him.

The stocks are falling as they talk.

"Sir Gideon," they called him.

"That woman is named Amber Wood and she will be the one whom my grandson will marry, she will not leave no matter what," Gideon answered full of authority.

Carla bit her lower lip, she had always been there.

She grew up with him and had been kind to all of them since young so why?

Why can't it be her?

She could even feel the change in Cathrine.

"Fine choose her over the Empire, let's see just how much you will fall because of this stupid decision of yours," Leon said in gritted teeth.

He stood up and was ready to push Carla out of the office, seems that they wouldn't understand his importance until they lose him.

"Sir Gideon!!" the other three called out to him.

"Are you really gonna remain stubborn just for a mere woman who couldn't even help this Empire? Can't you see that the one suited to your grandson is Carla Ansel? She has everything the brain, the looks, the money and the attitude unlike that barbaric woman who only knows how to hurt others," Henry stood up and complained.

The other family members shook their head when they felt the sudden change in atmosphere.

The temperature dropped drastically and they could even feel shivers running down their spines.

"The brain?�� Ashton said with a cold sneer.

Everyone looked at him even Leon who was almost at the door, for Ashton had been silent all these time.

"She has the brain indeed…"

Carla's eyes were hopeful upon hearing this, she was waiting for a compliment.

Ashton's eyes went to her and they were cold as well.

This made her heart drop knowing that she will just get hurt for what she was about to hear.

"A brain that only thinks how to hurt others. Don't think I had forgotten how you deliberately hurt Amber back when you first met her. I'm not stupid if you are taking me for one," he continued.

Murmurs were heard as the relatives heard about this for the first time.

"At the same time, Samantha only said a few words and you already snapped back at her, someone as short tempered as you will never fit as the madam of the Empire."

"HOW DARE YOU INSULT HER RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!!" Leon roared.

Ashton scoffed, "You already left, what respect do you need from me? I will never respect a businessman who would use his authority for personal reason especially when it is for their selfish desire."

"You-"

"Another one," he was interrupted by Ashton.

"The attitude? Someone who belittles those who are below them just because they have the money does not have the attitude. The money? We have the money why would we need more from people like you?"

He was now looking back at Carla and his every word was like knife cutting through her heart.

Tears started falling from her eyes.

"As for the looks?" he looked at her from top to bottom and sneered once again.

"You are nothing compared to her."

And with that, her tears came like a waterfall.

Not once did Ashton spoke to her in such a way only now did he show this side.

"Why?" she finally spoke clutching her chest.

"Why can't it be me? Why? When all along I have been here beside you, from when we were children I was already here? So why? Why are you choosing her who came not so long ago?"

Her voice was begging as she asked this in tears.

Ashton's cousins remained quiet, they of course knew that most of what she is showing now are acts. Maybe when they were young everything as still true but then she grew up far from them and was raised by her grandfather.

"Why?" Ashton's eyes were mocking.

"Simple because it is her."

'It is her who was there and showed me what I was lacking. It was her who showed me the light after succumbing to the dark. It was her who faced me head on without fear,' he added in his mind.

But despite being only a sentence, it already said everything.

Not unless she is Amber Wood, he would never love her.

"ENOUGH!!" Leon shouted.

Then he looked at Henry.

Henry stood up, "The Empire has truly changed, and this is no longer the one before. I shall pull my shares as well. I will not leave my money to someone as irrational as you."

Everyone looked at each other especially the other two major shareholders.

Will this really be the end of the Empire?

"Are you letting two major shareholders leave just like that?" one couldn't even help but ask.

"Let them leave, no one will stop them," Gideon finally said.

Henry laughed and called for his secretary, it didn't even take ten minutes for his share to be pulled as well.

As if this was already prepared before hand.

"Let's see just how you struggle with this," Leon scoffed at Ashton and Gideon.

"Be my guest, the door is open for you," Gideon spoke with confidence not a hint of panic for what had just happened.

That's when the others felt that something had been amiss towards the entire Wright family.

Not one of them was panicking to what is going on.