At Jones Enterprises, there were smashing sounds coming out of the CEO's room. Edward Jones was pacing back and forth in his room, smashing everything that came into his way. The company is going down, yet his unfilial son was still enjoying himself.
In the morning, the finance department asked Henry to quickly inform President Jones that Starlight had pulled out their shares from the company. Henry stayed rooted to his spot for a while, before rushing towards the CEO's office. He knocked on the door and entered when he got an answer from inside.
"President, this morning the HR department informed me that the shares from Starlight Entertainments have been pulled out." Henry lowered his head after informing him and waited for his answer.
Edward became furious from inside but soon he calmed himself.
"They already cancelled that contract. So this time, it wasn't a surprising move from there side. Quickly call for a stakeholders meeting." He instructed his secretary in a raspy voice. These past days were very hard for him and made him exhausted.
"Yes President." After receiving instructions he went out of the room. The moment he exited the room, Edward slammed down the phone on his table.
After an hour, Henry came to inform him about the stakeholders meeting. He furrowed when he saw the messy and empty room. After a few minutes of glancing at the room, his eyes shifted towards the couch in the corner. Edward was sitting there with his eyes closed.
"President. The stakeholders are waiting for you in the meeting room." Henry informed Edward who was sitting on the couch with his head lowered. These past few days, he has been really worn out.
"Call Rick, and ask him to rush back as soon as he can, if he still feels he also holds some responsibilities for this company." Edward instructed his secretary before heading out of his office.
Inside the huge meeting room, most of the seats were occupied except few of them.
Edward went up to the CEO's seat and sat down, and glanced at the seat beside him which belonged to Rick.
The higher-ups who were whispering with other stakeholders stopped talking as soon as they saw Edward. Everyone focused on him.
Edward opened the document in his hands and glanced around with his sharp eyes. He then focused on the vacant seats on the left and right, especially the empty seat on the right. He frowned when he looked at them.
"Wel… Today's meeting holds a special purpose. I have planned a proposal to stabilise Jones Enterprises. Since our days in construction are not going smoothly, what if we invest the rest of our fundings in Showbiz?"
Edward asked the shareholders without lifting his head from the documents. Meanwhile, Henry quickly distributed the proposal documents to each one of the shareholders.
After a moment of pause, he continued, "Also, since most of our shareholders have roots in Showbiz, so there are not many risks."
The shareholders felt that wasting money in a building which was not working smoothly for the company, it would be better to start investing in a Showbiz. So without any further objections, the meeting ended quickly with everyone's approval on the proposal.
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Yesterday after consulting his 'elder son' whom he never acknowledged, on the recent advance in showbiz, Edward felt that it would be better if the company was handed to him temporarily.
This recent project collaboration of the company was personally supervised under Elijah, the first child of Edward Jones with his girlfriend, who died after giving birth to him. But after having Rick as his second son from his wife, he was willing to give up on Elijah, and was ready to make Rick as his heir.
The mother and son duo, Olivia and her son Rick, both gave Elijah a very hard time during his entire childhood. No one was there to take care of him.
After knowing about the abilities of Elijah, the old man Michael Jones, father of Edward planned to take him under his care. Michael was one of the most leading business men, in his time. His son was no match for him. But, his grandson Elijah, was very different from his son Edward. The old man believed that Elijah was his younger version. Even, the grandfather and grandson pair looked very similar to each other when it came to the aura they both carried.
The old circle of businessmen, everyone knew about Elijah, being capable of ruling over the entire Jones Enterprises. Even Edward was not as capable as Elijah. Even the old man was in favour of making Elijah, the next heir.
Olivia was very freaked out when she heard everyone praising Elijah. Even that old man transferred his shares and power of the company under him. That made her assume that with age the old man had lost his eyesight to judge one's capabilities. How can that side bastard be more capable than her son? In order to protect the throne of heir of Jones Enterprises for her son, she planned out to send Elijah away from here.
Edward understood her intentions but it was hard to make that old man agree. So in order to play safe, he decided to let Elijah handle the entire France branch. Jones Enterprises had three main branches, one of them was in France which was at the worst condition. Since the company could not reap any profits, Edward felt that it would be better to let Elijah handle it. One of the main reason behind it was that with this atleast everybody could see that Elijah failed to uplift the company branch.
When Michael got the hold about this, he became furious. He even slapped Edward twice. Edward was willing to let the company suffer under Rick, instead of handling it to Elijah who would surely lift up the company. But after seeing Elijah did not object to this decision, he also did not want to dwell it out further. From inside he knew that his kin, his grandson will never disappoint him.