Fandrey ordered people to sell all the materials stored by the Floyd family the next morning.
Callum was very surprised when he received the news, so he immediately called Fandrey and asked, “Dad! Why did you have to sell all the materials in our hands? And how come the price is lower than manufacturing costs?”
Fandrey replied, “William and I are carrying out a huge transaction. We’re setting up our bait.”
“What big business are you donig? Who are you targeting?” Callum was very curious.
“I’ll tell you later. Don’t worry, William won’t let us suffer any losses. This material will only be sold to our own men and William said that we’ll gain a lot of profits in the future. Oh right, keep your mouth shut and don’t tell anyone about this,” Fandrey reminded.
“I know, I won’t mess up your big business!” Callum hung up without saying anything when he heard it was William’s idea.
Meanwhile, in the president’s office of Wolf Group, Marcus followed right after William entered the office. “Mr. Howard, the Floyd family has begun to sell the materials.”
William sat down with a smile. “So soon? I thought it would be at noon. Looks like Grandpa can’t wait to see the results!”
“He must be very angry now. If I were him, I would do everything quickly to bring Ornard down.” Marcus said and also reported, “Since the Floyd family is selling materials now, I have already arranged other companies to take over. Ornard and Paisley will not think that they’re under us. Besides, I will immediately leak the news to the Anthony family and Ornard.”
“Well, in addition to the news that the Floyd family is selling materials, the Wolf Group has to take some actions as well to make it seem legitimate. We need to cause a false impression that the value of construction materials will suffer a great decline.”
“I’ll arrange it right away. According to the current situation, the news will be spread out before noon.”
“That’s good! It depends on whether Ornard and Paisley will take the bait and act according to what I have predicted. We’ll just wait to see the drama unfold.”
Marcus laughed and went out after that while William leaned back in his chair and thought for a while. Then, he picked up his phone and made an international call.
The call was connected after it rang for a moment. Jaxon smiled and greeted, “Hello, Sir!”
“Have you gotten any breakthroughs in the investigation?”
Jaxon replied, “I found something surprising and I was going to call you after I’ve investigated it thoroughly.”
“What did you find?”
“Veronica and Ornard were not biological siblings. Veronica was adopted because Ornard’s mother was pregnant with a girl. However, the child died during the delivery. In order to prevent Ornard’s mother from feeling sad or perhaps they wanted to arrange a joint marriage, the Laban family adopted a baby girl but few people knew about it. They have always claimed to the public that Veronica was their real daughter and some family members don’t know the truth about Veronica as well.”
“She’s adopted? Does this mean that the Laban family had planned an arranged marriage with the Floyd family from the very beginning?”
“Yes! The Laban family must have had this idea from the very beginning, but the elders of the Floyd family didn’t think much of it. They always thought that Veronica was the heiress of the Laban family. At that time, the two families had a good relationship, so the Laban family offered to marry off Veronica and the Floyd family didn’t refuse. So the matter was settled this way.”
William laughed when he heard Jaxon’s words. “What else did you find out?”
“After the Laban family and the Floyd family had a discussion about the marriage, Callum disliked Veronica and began to fall in love with Emily. However, Veronica refused to give up pursuing Callum and she had an accident where she fell of the house. At that time, the blame was placed on Emily for stirring up trouble. In order to prevent the Laban family from pursuing Emily, Callum chose to marry Veronica. I went to investigate Veronica’s accident in the past and found an astonishing piece of news.”
Jaxon took a breath. “At that time, Veronica fell from the horse and it caused her uterus to be permanently damaged. After investigation, I found out that Veronica had complications because she was pregnant and she had a miscarriage after she fell from the horse. The Laban family concealed the fact that she had a miscarriage and stated that her uterus was damaged instead.”
“What? Who is the child’s father?” William asked in shock.
“I’m sure it’s not Callum’s because the Laban family didn’t talk about Veronica’s miscarriage at all. They kept saying that Veronica’s uterus was damaged, which caused her to be infertile.”
“Did Veronica have a close relationship with a man?” William asked again.
“No, I haven’t found any other men who have a close relationship with Veronica, except Ornard!”
It was so strange that William fell silent for a moment. “Go and interrogate the servants of the Laban family, but you have to be careful not to alert them.”
“I’ve found a retired old servant of the Laban family. She told me something after I paid her enough money. She once saw Ornard sneaking into Veronica’s bedroom in the middle of the night. It happened several times, and Ornard would always spend a few hours in there.”
“This…” William said in a low voice.
Jaxon’s words instantly gave William an astonishing guess, but he was still uncertain.
This matter still needed to be verified because it was not easy to draw a conclusion before they could find any evidence.
“Continue to investigate this matter and I will try to find a way to confirm their relationship.”
“Sir, how are you going to do that when you’re on the mainland?”
“Ornard and Paisley are in cahoots now. I’m going to ask someone to disclose their information, but Angel will handle it. We’ll know the result in two days.”
Ornard heard that the Floyd family was selling all of their materials a few hours ago and Paisley also called him as well. “It has been confirmed that the Floyd family has sold their materials and the price is relatively low. They’ve lost a lot of money compared to when they purchased it.”
“I’ve also received the news and it seems that things have changed.” Ornard analyzed, “The Floyd family has abundant funds, but they would rather lose money and sell the goods in their hands. It seems that the value of materials will drop soon. Have you got any news about Wolf Group? We’ll decide our next plan based on their actions.”
Paisley immediately replied, “Wolf Group has also made a move and I’ve arranged for someone to keep an eye on them. They’ve also begun purchasing and hoarding the materials since this morning.”
“Wolf Group is actually in sync with the Floyd family? It seems like the Floyd family and William are making the same decision. Since William has always been good at predicting the market, I think it’s true that the price of materials will drop significantly.” Ornard came to this conclusion.
Paisley agreed with Ornard’s guess. “I think it should be like this. Should we purchase materials now?”
“No. In this case, I think the construction materials will have a huge decline and we have to find a way to deal with it immediately. You should arrange for someone to stop purchasing materials now. The price will continue to drop and we have to wait for a suitable time to make a purchase at the lowest price.”
Paisley promised, “Okay, I will arrange someone to do it right away!”