Night of Destiny Novel by Vanessa K

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.

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

he think that his

why don’t you just buy those shares

He pointed out emotionlessly, “Buying back those shares isn’t as easy as it sounds. Our company hasn’t been profiting for the last two years, and we’re making just enough to keep the business

this would happen, maybe you wouldn’t buy that house,” Naomi said begrudgingly as she

annoyed to begin with, so he glared at Naomi and snapped, “Keep quiet, will

right, aren’t I? You should’ve tightened your belt and stopped spending money so frivolously if you knew the company was struggling,” Naomi argued, rubbing salt in his

was accusing her of being a liability to Francis, and she wished she could shove Naomi and Erica out of the room. All they were doing

there no one who can save Dad’s company?”

then, a lightbulb went off in Naomi’s head when she heard this. “Wait, there is! I can’t believe we didn’t think about this before. Anastasia,

flustered to hear Naomi even suggest

This is the least he can do for our family,” Naomi argued like she was only

family? When were we ever a family? Anastasia didn’t bother entertaining the

supportive of her mother as well. “Mom’s right. Elliot is a mogul and a billionaire. If he intervenes, I’m sure Dad’s old

quiet throughout this, but he did sneak a glance at Anastasia, and she did not miss the pleading look on his face. Desperate times called for desperate measures, and he was very much