“Call John Granger,” David said to Snowy.
John still had the 60 million dollars in his hands. Only after the project started would he invest in making profits together. However, David couldn’t wait any longer.
The penalty for terminating the cooperation was six million dollars. Currently, they could only afford four million. David believed their company would soon close down if they sold some assets to gather six million dollars. Therefore, he had to use John’s investment.
“OK.”
Snowy was in charge of the public relationship, just like Miranda did in the Robin-Sophia Group. Immediately, Snowy made the call and said, “Hello, Mr. Granger. Here is the thing… We now need a small part of your investment to pay the penalty.”
“To pay the penalty? What penalty? Why should I pay it for you?” John growled. Evidently, he changed his mind.
He added, “60 million dollars. Think I’m a fool? Why would I invest in your shabby company? You’ve lost that project. Stop bothering me. I won’t invest in your company anymore.”
Then he ended the call.
Earlier, he didn’t have the guts to refuse them. Even if Lands Corporation wanted him to invest one billion dollars, he had to do it. However, he received news not long ago that Elise had been kicked out of Lands Corporation.
John was overjoyed.
After all, that man forced him to invest because he had offended Elise.
Since Elise was no longer working in Lands Corporation, John didn’t think he needed to get involved in that shabby company.
Holding the phone, Snowy couldn’t return to her senses. She didn’t expect to be rejected. Raising her head, she looked at others and said, “John Granger refused. He said he wouldn’t invest a dime in our company.”
“What’s going on? Who negotiated the cooperation with him earlier?”
Gordon walked to them, anger appearing on his wrinkled face. “You must have offended him. Who obtained the cooperation with him earlier? Let’s see if we can do something to change his mind.”
Gordon looked around.
No one stood out.
“Afraid of being punished?”
Gordon’s gaze swept around, but no one replied. Frowning, he added, “How irresponsible you are! I want to talk to the person who negotiated with John Granger before instead of blaming you. We must figure out what exactly has happened.”
Only the silence replied to him.
A while later, when Gordon’s face darkened more, one man said in a weak tone, “Elise Houry was the one who negotiated with John Granger.”
‘Elise?’
Gordon was taken aback as he didn’t expect it was Elise again. He hadn’t gone to the company for a while, so he had almost forgotten the cooperation with John. Much to his surprise, Elise was also the one who let John invest 60 million dollars.
“She again?”
Gordon frowned deeply.
Heaving a sigh, he added, “By the way, we can borrow from Hercules Properties. We still have some projects with them. They should lend us 2 million dollars.”
Regarding their cooperated channels, they worked only with the Buosont Group and Hercules Properties.
Hercules Properties didn’t give up working with Lands Corporation when Lucas Corporation banned others from becoming their clients. Hercules Properties was indeed a good ally for them, in Gordon’s opinion.
They also took the initiative to lend them one million dollars to pass through the difficulty.
Besides, Hercules Properties was also a huge enterprise. Therefore, Gordon believed it was easy for Hercules Properties to lend them 2 million dollars.
“OK, Grandpa.”
Snowy immediately called Hercules Properties. A while later, she hung it up, looking annoyed. “Grandpa,” she replied to Gordon, “Hercules Properties asked us to pay back the one million dollars first. Or they’ll sue us ASAP.”
Gordon was shocked.
After calming down slightly, he asked, “Hercules Properties is always our good ally, isn’t it? Last time, when we returned their loan, they gave us 600-thousand-dollar interest, didn’t they? Why suddenly do they ask us to pay the money back today?”
He sensed something fishy.
“Grandpa, you came to the company and stayed shortly last time. Have you forgotten? It was also Elise Houry who sighed the cooperation contract with Hercules Properties,” one young man reminded him in a weak tone.
“How about the Buosont family?”
“The project was also obtained by Elise Houry.”
Last time, Gordon didn’t come to the company, so he didn’t know anything about the Buosont family. Besides, David never took the initiative to inform him of those things. Therefore, Gordon only knew they had cooperation with the Buosont Group.
Therefore, he realized Elise had gained all the current cooperated projects.
“Can’t our company exist without Elise Houry?”
Gordon looked at others. Pacing the floor with his walking stick, he growled, “If Elise Houry has gained cooperation with the Robin-Sophia Group, the investment from Sunrise Properties, cooperation with Hercules Properties, and the channels of the Buosont Group, what have you all done?”
The meeting room was in pin-drop silence.
They did something, but what they did was just trifles compared to Elise. They felt ashamed to mention it to Gordon. In fact, they had always been giving Elise a hard time, so they assigned her to the most challenging things.
However, she accomplished each task perfectly.
“Is there any other way?”
Gordon glanced at David, Snowy, and others, his face dark.
No one responded.
The most important for them now was to obtain a 6-million-dollar investment. However, no one would be such a fool to give them such an amount of money to pay the penalty.
If Elise still worked at Lands Corporation, she probably could do it.
Immediately, they all thought about Elise.
‘We’ve made a stupid decision,’ all of them thought.
They complacently kicked Elise out of the Houry family and Lands Corporation earlier. However, they had never expected their cooperation with the Robin-Sophia Group to go wrong.
Usually, no one would care about the person who signed the contract but the company to cooperate.
After all, businessmen looked upon the profits.
However, surprisingly, Elise was lucky to send a bottle of Cruzan 9 Spiced Rum to the Robin-Sophia Group’s chairman of the board, which gained his favor.
Therefore, he insisted on working with Elise.
Unfortunately, Elise had been kicked out of Lands Corporation.
“What should we do?”
Snowy looked over at David anxiously. If they couldn’t find any way out, Lands Corporation would go bankrupt soon.
“Why don’t you contact Timothy Buosont?” David suggested, his hair standing on end.
Earlier, he wanted to use a honey trap. However, Reginald had been severely injured. Lucas Corporation avenged him. Then it went bankrupt. Too many things happened all of a sudden, so David didn’t recall it.
Therefore, he believed it was the only way to save Lands Corporation.
“I did contact him. I went to see him yesterday, but he refused to meet me. Then I managed to encounter him and almost completely stripped myself. He slapped me.”
Covering her cheek, Snowy looked aggrieved. The slap hurt her self-esteem, so she didn’t tell David earlier.
Snowy was confused why Timothy was interested in Nina but not her. In her opinion, she was good-looking with an appealing figure and a pleasant temperament. Also, she thought she was brilliant. However, Timothy even didn’t spare a glance at her.
Snowy was floored.