Chapter 215 - Condition.

"Me?" Hillary asked in a surprise tone.

"Yes I think, Mrs Hillary here also has what it takes to lead this company, after all she's still a Beau. A little competition might help you work harder in defending that seat of yours and speed up the process of coming up with a solution for this impending soon which is about to unfold" The man said, while a majority of the people nodded their head affirmatively. Jake scoffed when he saw the responses coming from the others.

It was clear that the majority of them were just pawns. But he'll deal with everyone of them after this. He'd make sure they regret ever challenging him on this day.

Jake glanced at Hillary and his lips curved upward reflecting a cynical smile when their eyes met.

The faked surprise look on her face can fool anybody but not him. He has known her to be a deceptive person, most especially with her looks. What he didn't know was her interest towards the company.

He continued to look at her, giving her a knowing look, and she also smiled at him. Jake cringed in his head for letting his guard down around her. His hatred for her has blinded his sense of reasoning so much that he didn't see the potential of she trying to sabotage him or usurp his seat at the company.

Was this why his grandfather had warned him about her upon his return? Did he know something about this and that's why he was here? Jake spared a glance at his grandfather, but the old man was too busy looking ahead, he was definitely thinking about something. Something he didn't know about, and he had a feeling it was somehow related to him.

Jake looked back at the man who had been against him all this while. It was obvious that he was in this with that evil witch. He didn't even have to wonder how she had gotten some major shareholders on her side. All it takes was to get one big fish to reel in the other smaller fishes. And it was common knowledge that Hillary was a big time vixen, wasn't that the character she played on screen? She played it well both on screen and in real life. She must have bedded his fool and that's why he was here acting like her puppet— so he thought.

He scoffed in his mind when he thought about all Hillary's wrongdoings. He was keeping tab of them, when the time comes he was going to make her pay. She'd wish she was dead because death would be easier than what he was going to do to her, stepmother or not.

"I accept this challenge" He said in a strong tone.

"Jake" Grandfather Beau called, but Jake glanced at him and gave him a reassuring look, indicating he had things under control. He wasn't going to lose his company, his family legacy and most importantly he wasn't going to lose to the woman who killed his father. Never!

"Good" Mr Andrew said as he looked to his accomplice who nodded their head.

"But I have a condition" Jake suddenly said, surprising all of them, except Hillary who was looking at him expressionlessly.

"What is it, CEO Jake" One of the shareholders asked.

"That after all this, all my contender will sign off her shares to me" He paused for effect, and leaned forward to show the death look in his eyes, before the continued, "And the lot's of you can get the fuck off my company" He roared lividly.

He'd rather run the company alone than have a bunch of useless fools as irrelevant shareholders. They can pull their stupid funds out of his company, but that's only if he let them walk away with a dime. If they thought they'd shake him up with their useless plan, then he'd show them what real scheming was.

"You can't do that" One of Hillary's minions jumped to his feet and snapped.

"Yes you can't, this company is dependent on our funds" Another said in a menacing tone.

Mr Andrew let out a mocking laugh, "CEO Jake doesn't know what he's saying. It seems you really do lack some leadership skills. We pull out and Acrosoft dies, you should know better" He said mockingly.

Jake narrowed his eyes at him, his brow arched on both sides and his eyes as cold as ice, "Then it seems, I've to teach you what true leadership is" Jake replied in a calm and cold tone. The fact that he was unfazed about all this and was confident with his threats made the men uncomfortable. They shot a look at Hillary, but she was completely unfazed by Jake's to words and threat. As a matter of fact she looked amused, and that could only mean she had the situation under control. There was no way they'll lose. She had promised them a flawless plan, except they wouldn't be bold enough to challenge Jake in this manner, especially in front of the Elder.

Jake locked eyes with Hillary again before abruptly standing up from his seat. "If that would be all, then this meeting is over" Jake said in a cold and authoritative tone. There was no need in prolonging the meeting. The meeting was one scheduled to review the preceedings of the company in the last few months. It was the usually quarterly meeting, but it had just turned into something else.

Jake turned to his grandfather who was also looking at.

"Grandfather let's go" He said, making the man nod his head. He turned his head to look at Hillary and their eyes met, this was the first time since the meeting started that he was paying a proper look at her. His gaze didn't last ten seconds before he stood up to his feet with Jake assisting him, not that he needed any by the way.

Jake turned to his secretary Patrick who was still seated, looking like he was lost in a trance. Poor guy was yet to understand what just happened.

Did a board meeting just turn into a competiting ground?!

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