Manhattan, New York, RAND Group Headquarters, Top Building, Chairman Office.
“I just said that and the others found out that he was Danny, we were in big trouble.” Joey stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, with his back facing Ward, with a worried look on his face.
“Even if this is the case, we can’t admit that it is him.” Ward shook the head gently, his position always insisted. He held the coffee in his hand and walked up to Joey. The face said seriously: “We have to unite the front on this matter, okay, Joey?”
“Isn’t it easier for us to mediate with him?” Joey still doesn’t understand why Ward is Unwilling to change my mind.
Ward shook the head coldly and said to Joey: “Do you really want to negotiate with someone who is obviously mentally troubled?”
“No, but we have to Do the right thing.” Joey couldn’t help but continue to persuade Ward, she didn’t want to see this thing go to extremes.
“What we did was right.” Ward took a deep breath, put down the coffee cup in his hand, and then pressed Joey’s shoulder and said: “I don’t want to negotiate with him, but I am now Consider a generous, effective, and beneficial to both parties. Trust me, we will talk about it when all the documents are completed. Besides, I also need you to consider other things, dealing with Raj Patel’s terminal.”
“Are you cracking a joke?” Joey slightly frowned, pondered for a moment, and then asked, “Why should we care about that broken dock?”
” …Just treat it as helping me, please!” Ward was obviously a little embarrassed, as if there was something hidden in it that was hard to know.
“Heh!” Joey couldn’t help but helplessly shook his head, let out a laugh, and said, “When we were young, you would often come to my room, and use these words to ask me to replace You do your homework, and now you use this set again.”
“It was because you helped me that I was able to pass Calculus.” Ward also laughed, memories are always so happy. He looked towards Joey hopefully, and asked in a low voice: “How about this matter?”
“Well, send the damn file to my mailbox.” Joey was helpless. Nodded, then left Ward’s office.
And after she left, Ward’s face gradually disappeared, took the coffee cup, and drank all the coffee in the cup in one sip.
In the evening, when Joey returned to oneself’s house, he was surprised to find that Daniel Rand, whom Ward had been looking for, was sitting in front of her apartment, on either side of the apartment door. There are all kinds of flowers that look like they were picked from the park, but they are beautiful.
Joey stopped, laughed gently, and then said: “You know, maybe in other realities, this will make me feel romantic.”
Daniel is faint Laughed and said: “If in other realities, you would not drug me and send me to a mental hospital.”
“Well, it’s fair.” Joey was a little sorry. After she turned her head, her eyes fell on a document in her handbag, she glanced at Daniel Rand secretly, put her own right hand in her coat pocket, and quietly pressed a certain on the cellphone in her pocket. telephone number.
Daniel Rand not at all noticed Joey’s little movements, but comfortedly said: “We are friends, maybe we can get along like friends.”
“So you It’s a show of peace to come here, through these flowers brought from the park?” Joey couldn’t help laughing.
Daniel Rand also laughed. The tension between the two of them suddenly disappeared. He explained a little: “This is the tradition of Buddhism. It is to remind you of our feelings. , Just like those jelly beans you gave me.”
Those jelly beans, Joey was slightly sighed in his heart. He stepped forward, sat down next to Daniel Rand, and looked up and down seriously. Once again, then he asked: “Danny, what have you experienced all these years? Why are you coming back?”
Daniel Rand said with a wry smile on his face, and said in a low voice: Ah, every time I want to tell my story, people are frightened, but you and Ward, you are the only connection I have with the past, which gave me motivation in a very difficult environment. Maybe this sounds a bit It’s absurd, but I only have these. Only you can make me feel that oneself is the most real existence.”
“I can understand, really, this is not absurd.” Joey squeezed tightly. With a sad smile on his face, he said with deep feeling: “When my father died, I was only 13 years old. I hadn’t recovered from the loss of you and your parents. I was at a loss. I don’t care about anything. It’s a mechanical life, but I saw a fantasy, a dream, and I dreamed about it repeatedly.”
Speaking of which, Joey curled up subconsciously, laughed barely, and then Then he continued: “I was a child in my dream. I went back to school. At the end of every day, I would see father standing by the fence waiting for me. I would run towards him, and when I rushed out, he would hold my hand. , And the dream is over. But his smile is deeply imprinted in my mind. I must have done that dream a hundred times.”
I heard what Joey said, Daniel Rand His hands couldn’t help being slightly paused, and the complexion slightly changed, while saying: “I dreamed of him too, just a few days ago, when I was in the hospital. At first I thought he was a hungry ghost because he was in that place. People, they think these ghosts are wandering around the world because they are ignored by their families. I know this sounds strange, they serve me a lot of potion, which is probably an illusion.”
“I think it should be, Danny.” Joey nodded with a wry smile on his somewhat pale face.
However, Daniel Rand reached out and grabbed Joey’s wrist, and said with a serious face: “But he smells the same, CK’s Ancient Dragon water?”
“No, it’s Mark Jacobs.” The expression on Joey’s face started to get cold. She broke away from Daniel’s hand holding her wrist, then grabbed the bag in her hand and stood up and said, “We can Go inside the house?”
“Okay!” Daniel Rand not at all noticed that Joey’s expression was strange, and then stood up, then Joey opened the door, and he followed in. This is his first just and honorable entry into Joey’s apartment.
After entering the door, oncoming is a round table on which Carina’s rose flowers are placed on the round table, and also a pale-yellow handmade pottery. In the depths of the room, there is a two-meter high The glass tree, which is covered with glass pieces of various colors, is very eye-catching.
“You have to treat you fairly and fairly, Danny, then you have to treat us fairly.” Joey took off his coat, motioned Daniel Rand to sit down, and took out one from his bag. A document and said: “When my father died, I took on a lot of responsibilities. Our father created a great thing. My duty is to maintain it and strengthen it. This is our offer for your shares. I think Already very generous!”
Daniel Rand took the document with some doubts and began to read every clause on the document carefully. He was surprised: “100 million USD?”
“Ward originally only wanted to give you 40 million, but I asked him to increase the price!” Joey looked at Danny seriously, said solemnly: “Think about it, how many things you can do with this money, do you think You can do anything.”
“But I have to change my name.” Daniel Rand’s expression became ashen at this brief moment. Of course he understood the meaning of this document, as long as he was in After signing this document, the Rand Group, the company founded by his father, has nothing to do with him.
Joey has long anticipated but may have a reaction. You must know that the market value of the entire Rand Group is tens of billions, even considering the contributions of the Mitcham family over the years, Daniel · The shares that RAND needs to inherit have shrunk a bit, but it will also exceed 50%, which is far from 100 million USD.
However, Joey and the others have had no alternative. 100 million USD is already the maximum amount of cash that the two siblings can use privately. If there is more, they must explain to the company’s Board of Directors. News Once spread, it will inevitably affect the share price of the Rand Group, which is unacceptable to them.
So Joey took a step forward and said to Daniel Rand: “The entire world thinks that Daniel Rand is dead. We think this should not be changed. You can choose one you like Name, you can start over, it will be great.”