Vivian~
I walked towards where Chris stood, the laptop placed in front of the table as his hands worked magnificently on the keys.
“Let me have a look”. I said and he instantly placed the laptop towards me. I watched as the video displayed, everyone going on their usual business.
Damn! I didn’t find anything suspicious! Was my guts wrong this time? It has never been like this.
I grabbed the laptop and zoomed in, this time around I blocked out anything that could serve as a distraction, only focusing intently on the video displaying and just then, I found out something; this was an edited video that was used as a replacement for the main video. It was either the CCTV was hacked or the edited video was wired to display for a particular day thereby replacing the real one from showing at the headquarters.
“Chris, hack into the hospital CCTV in France on 1st July” Vivian ordered but just then, one of the men slammed his hands on the table.
“We will not accept this, as a shareholder in this company, hacking into something as vital as that would be an infringement on the patients privacy” He fumed in disagreement.
I turned to face him glancing at him from head to feet seeing how worked up he had suddenly become.
“Stanley” I called with anger.
“Yes ma’am”
“What’s his name ”
“That’s Stanford, one of the shareholders in the company”
“How much share did he stake in the contract?”
” He has 40% shares ma’am”
” Terminate it at once, return every penny to him and have him thrown out of this conference, I will not condone any form of insolence” I declared and everyone gasped, my words had taken them by surprise and within a few seconds, Stanley left and returned with a file.
“Here, Mr Stanford, please sign it” Stanley said to the man who instantly took the pen to sign but I stopped him before he could do that.
“Mr Standford, from the charts, I can see that you’ve already gotten the contract benefit return of 20 million dollars right?” I asked and he nodded.
“Good, Stanley deduct that amount as well as the compensation of the sudden breach in the contract between the Norman’s and Mr Stanford, it’s stated in every contract”
“No!, You can’t do that! How dare you?!” He barked and I cackled then walked towards him.
“And may I know why I can’t? Perhaps I should read out the contract to you? It’s stated in every contract signed between two legal enterprises, sudden breach of contract without a plausible claim would result in a compensation of ten million dollars, am I wrong Mr Stanford?” I raised an eyebrow at him questioningly. He clenched his fists in anger, glaring at me with a murderous intent.
“Stanley, go ahead, he’ll leave here with no less than 20 million dollars” I blurted and walked back in front of the projector as Stanley walked on the file, deducting as u had instructed.
Few moments later, Mr Stanford reluctantly signed.
“I won’t let you off the hook young woman, just__”
“Send him out!” I ordered and the two bodyguards that stood at the door instantly grabbed his hands and pulled him out of the conference room; what a humiliating sight! He deserved it!
“Now let’s go back to our original agenda” I flashed a smile at all of them. I could feel their breathes tense up in fear and I giggled inwardly; these men doesn’t really know what hit them.
“Chris, you’ve hacked into the CCTV?” I asked and he shook his head ” No, on it”
“And Mr Edward, I would want you to go through the last money that went out of the company account and what it was invested on” I stated and he concurred as well.
Everywhere went silent as the both me worked on my order, the atmosphere suddenly dropped down to a really awkward silence.
“Who else would love to terminate their contract, please indicate so we can move to the next page and avoid latter distractions” I inquired with a knowing stare but none was willing anymore to raise their hands.
” Why is no one saying anything. I learnt from Mr Stanley earlier that a total of six shareholders wants to withdraw their shares with only two people remaining in the stake, what changed? ” I inquired in a jestive voice and seeing that none of them was willing to say anything, I continued.
” Mr Stanley, do you have an idea the six men that had threatened to break off the contract? ”
“Yes, ma’am.,
“, Please point them out please”
” No, wait” One went down on his immediately, his voice desperate and almost in a yell.
“Please I do not want to break off the contract, I was just afraid that the company would be ruined and confiscated by the government so as a business man, I had to secure my shares from the company first” He let out and just immediately, his other cohorts joined him and they all went down on their knees; for a moment, one would feel pity for this act but I knew that it given another chance, they’ll definitely do worse than this already.
“Pleading is not valid at this point everyone, I’m only after the success of this company and tracing the suddenly lost money and how illegal drugs was found on patients, I’m sorry but I’ll be doing Justice this time”
“We do not want to withdraw our shares anymore, we’ll assist” One of them added and I shook my head in disapproval.
“That’ll only depend on whatever Chris and Mr Edward finds out, I’m sorry but I don’t go back on my words” I retold, bearing a hard stoic dominant aura in me.
“Ma’am, I found the original video!” Chris shroud out immediately, disrupting my next words as I sharply raced to where he was and collected the system.
“The real video was altered with the CCTV and the old- edited one was replaced to display on the headquarters, I think that was the medium they used to snuggle in those illegal drugs and move out the 300 million dollars outlined under shares” He conveyed finally!