297 Chapter 297

Diamond followed her boss, who went down to the ground floor, and they headed to his car as he had another meeting with a client.

Vernon drove the car to their client's office while Diamond sat beside him.

She wondered about the whole thing, especially if her boss had predicted everything. He told her to make a contract for him and Gregory Maxwell's company.

'He also gives me specification on what to write down to the smallest number, making sure that I don't fuck this up,' Diamond pondered. She glanced at Vernon and had to fear crept up from the bottom of her feet to her head.

"Sir, about Gregory Maxwell…"

"What?"

"Did you plan everything?"

"I did," Vernon replied nonchalantly, eyes still on the road. "He is my prime target, I know that he has been cutting corners in my Big brother's company, so I make sure to put his data on the list of suspects that I handed to my Big brother."

"My big brother is smart. He definitely has investigated Gregory Maxwell prior to me giving him the list of suspicious men that he needs to weed out to find Chloe. So he will naturally weed that old man out first."

Diamond had been informed about her boss' plan to take down his Big brother. She knew that he was using Chloe's disappearance in some ways. Many of his previous plans had been revoked as his heart had been softened by Chloe, much to Diamond's relief.

'If he's still thinking about using Chloe in a more extreme way. Then I might have to turn my back on him,' Diamond thought.

"And about the contract that you told me to write?" Diamond asked more.

"Naturally, I am the one who leaked my plan of launching a beverage product in Western Europe to some of Gregory Maxwell's close friends. That's why he came to us," Vernon explained. "That contract is meant to be perfect, even beneficial for him because I want to make sure that he cannot refuse my offer."

'Seriously? You've planned everything so perfectly. You're literally so smart!' Diamond complained in her head. 'But you didn't do what you said wrong to make Chloe cry? Oh for fuck sake!'

While Diamond was cursing her boss in the head. Vernon's eyes deepened as he continued driving through the road.

"Everything is according to plan. But there's one thing that's not within my range of expectation," Vernon said.

"And what is that, Sir?" Diamond was quite appalled by that statement. As much as she observed, it seemed Mr. Phoenix Gray had executed his plan perfectly.

"About my Big brother… I thought he would simply ditch Gregory Maxwell."

"And he didn't?"

"No, he only halved the usual supply from that old man's company instead. I've also heard from one of my informants that Gregory Maxwell started asking a few of his friends whether they're having a mistress in her 30s, definitely referring to Chloe."

Diamond slowly pieced a few things from her boss' statement, then concluded, "So, do you think Vincent Gray is…."

"Yes, he is definitely using Gregory Maxwell as a pawn to start combing through the list. He knows that culling all of his business partners to find Chloe is too risky and inefficient. That's why he is using that old man to start accusing each other."

"In short, my Big brother wants those people who've been working closely with the Gray family to start accusing each other, eventually breaking them off and hopefully will catch the one who hides Chloe," Vernon explained.

"But how is that effective, Sir?" Diamond asked again.

"It is very effective, because all of them will start being suspicious of their friends. They will start spying on each other trying to save their asses and present the head of the real culprit. So Vincent wouldn't need to work too much, because everyone is doing the job for him."

Vernon clenched the steering wheel, and his gaze deepened with a mix of fear and anger, "I hate to admit this. But my Big brother— Vincent Gray, is a genius tactician. He knows how to get the most with minimum effort. He knows how to control people."

"And you're facing him, Sir…." Diamond murmured.

"Yes. After all, I'm planning to take him down," Vernon replied. "I have to face him, and I will do anything as long as I can pull him down until he has nothing."

"That's why, Diamond—" Vernon glanced at Diamond for a split second. "—I trust you with this secret. Because I know you're competent, and I know you have lots of connections even without me. Don't worry, you're going to get what you want."

"What I want…."

"25% of Gray family's stock, right? You want to be a big shareholder," Vernon stated.

"Ah, yes, that one, Sir…." Diamond murmured.

Truth be told, Diamond still had no idea why her boss hated his Big brother so much.

She knew it wasn't because of Chloe— at least not initially. Because he hated both Vincent and Chloe at first, to the point that he hired Diamond and proposed to her a very tempting offer as long as they would join forces.

Diamond was young but very ambitious. She had all that was needed to be Vernon's assistant, and she was charmed by the devilish smirk, just like the rest of the woman in Vernon's bed.

Thus, she took that deal out of whim because she never expected Vernon to be able to topple down the Gray family, she didn't think much about being the shareholder.

'Besides, the salary he gives is literally ten times— or more than the expected salary of a secretary. I cannot pass that up.'

Though, as time passed, Diamond changed her opinion about Vernon.

'He is an insufferable, stubborn man-baby who cannot admit that he is living in the past and obsessing over one woman who's already married and has a child,' Diamond commented.

'But on the bright side, that's what makes me able to work with him for so long. He is a jerk that has no pity for those who don't fit his interests, my type of work partner.'