The Dantes would usually never involve themselves with another company, but they were also smart enough to recognize fresh meat dangling in front of their face like this. They knew that it would be stupid to just allow the company to go to Mark Vanitas when they could take over and reap even more benefits from it.
So, the Dantes sent their eldest son, Sinclair, into the company. Sinclair had only one mission. Bring as many shareholders as possible over to his side and make them appoint him as the next CEO instead of Mark. If Sinclair becomes the next CEO, then taking over the company from the inside would become a piece of cake for the Dantes!
Sinclair was a brilliant man who made his decisions based on a massive amount of accumulated data and intense initial contemplation. His mind worked like a V12 engine at all times, calculating and parsing any information that reached him before using it in a way that would be beneficial to him and his family.
But he couldn't have anticipated something like this would happen so quickly. Sinclair glared at Hugo from the head of the table, and he almost felt like stabbing a knife through this old fool's head. How dare he bring that foolish boy to the company without informing anybody?
Sinclair has always known Hugo to be mellow and agreeable. Hugo is brilliant, but his cowardice prevents him from going against many of the decisions that the board makes, so Hugo is never seen as the true leader of the company. The only times that Hugo would speak up was when it was to protect the company employees or subsidiaries.
So why was the fool suddenly acting up and trying to disrupt everything by bringing that boy here?
Sinclair was not happy that Mark was here, but he would not let that phase him. Instead, he took it in stride and began to make new plans that would account for this irregularity.
"Sinclair, what is the meaning of this? Did you send guards to prevent Mark from coming into this meeting room?"
Sinclair couldn't believe that Hugo was trying to do something like this. You mean to tell me that you looked at that boy – no, that man that came into this building, and you still have the gall to refer to him as a child? That monster that was capable of destroying buildings and breaking through metal like paper is who you are calling a child?
Sinclair put his face in his hand and chuckled deeply.
"Child? You really have the gall to refer to someone like that as a child. No, that is not a child. That is a man who was blessed with immense power and someone who decided to misuse that power and become a vigilante. So is that really the sort of person you wish to see as the face of our company?
Do you want the Vanitas Motors franchise to be spearheaded by a former vigilante who once had a lawsuit opened against him by the government? If he was so interested in coming back then he should have thought more about his image, and he should not have done something as foolish as becoming a vigilante!"
Slam!
Sinclair slammed his palm into the table once he finished talking, and Hugo could see genuine anger and disappointment in Sinclair's eyes. All around the table, Hugo watched as most of the members of the board also started to nod their heads along as they saw the sense in what Sinclair was saying!
They knew that it would be difficult to speak up against Hugo individually, so most of them were relying on Sinclair to speak their minds. Hugo could immediately tell that most of the board of directors were also a part of this.
Even though Sinclair was currently trying to take over the company, that does not mean he did not care about the Vanitas name. Sinclair needed the Vanitas name to be clean, and he also needed the public to look favorably at them so that he wouldn't have an issue with trying to expand the company in the future. Right now, Mark's presence was like a joker card.
There were those who loved Mark for all that he had done in the city, and there were also those who saw Mark as nothing but a murderer. How can they improve the company if the public sentiment was this vague?