My Baby’s Daddy

Chapter 249 Desperate Measures

“That’s the spirit, honey. You can’t just let anyone take the company away from you! You have to pull through this no matter what,” said Naomi as she encouraged him with renewed fervor.

Anastasia interjected, “Dad, do you know who the acquiring party is?”

Francis was seething with rage, and his eyes were bloodshot red as he snapped angrily, “He’s an old rival of mine. He’s despicable and disgustingly ruthless, and I can’t believe he’d resort to such underhanded ways to whittle me down!”

Upon hearing this, Anastasia’s heart dropped to her stomach. If the acquiring party was Francis’ old rival, she couldn’t possibly expect her father to go through with the acquisition without putting up a fight. Even if he did, he would resent and grow angry over this for the rest of his life.

Naomi was beside herself with panic as well. Her continued life of luxury depended on her husband’s company, and if he were to call it a day and let the acquisition go through, it would be the end of her privileged lifestyle. A look of horror colored her face as she turned to Francis and urged, “In that case, what should we do? Honey, you have to think of a way to save the company, and you must be quick! We can’t just let someone snatch the company away!”

“That’s right, Dad! You have to do something!” Erica chimed nervously.

“My hands are tied,” Francis admitted a little tiredly. “The acquiring party now holds thirty percent of the shares in the company, giving them enough leverage. More to the point, the business hasn’t been doing great for the last two years, and I’ve had to sell ten percent of my own shares to another company to help tide things over. Now, that company has decided to join forces with the acquiring party. As things are, I’m left with a forty-percent share in the company, and if they were to persuade the other shareholders to jump on their bandwagon, my words will not carry any more weight.”

he think that his company would fall victim to such

you just buy those

had been standing to the side all this while, knew the company’s financial troubles well enough. He pointed out emotionlessly, “Buying back those shares isn’t as easy as it sounds. Our company hasn’t been profiting for the last

you’d known that this would happen, maybe you wouldn’t buy that house,” Naomi

so he glared at Naomi and snapped, “Keep quiet,

aren’t I? You should’ve tightened your belt and stopped spending money so frivolously if you knew

Francis, and she wished she could shove Naomi and Erica out of the room. All they were doing was aggravating Francis instead

can

when she heard this. “Wait, there is! I can’t believe we didn’t think about this before. Anastasia, you know Elliot,

had been trying to avoid bringing up Elliot’s name, and she was flustered to hear Naomi even suggest

not? Your mother died protecting him! This is the least he can do

we ever a family? Anastasia didn’t bother