Chapter 18 - Chaos in LTX (1/2)

The office was in absolute chaos that week. LTX's stock price dropped out of nowhere and no one knew why. Directors at the headquarters panicked and immediately held an emergency meeting. The atmosphere in the office became very tense and Finland could not focus on her work.

”Many guests who have accepted our invitation to the Bartz event in two weeks canceled their reservations,” Meilin complained, frustrated. The Marketing Team held an emergency meeting because of this unexpected development.

”We can't cancel the program, everything is almost ready.” Ms. Fang punched the table because she was so upset. ”The three new brands looking to cooperate with us are now pending their projects.”

Finland was stunned. If Bartz's new product launch is postponed, how can she win the bet? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her...

Ugh, life has been anything but fair to her.

”Finland, sorry, but we have to ask you to contact your connection at Hotel Continental and tell them that we wish to postpone our event. The team from Bartz will fly here tomorrow to discuss the changes to the schedule. We will only embarrass ourselves if we hold such a large-scale event without any guests.”

Finland, now realizing the severity of the situation, started to panic. If the company where she worked at was threatened like this, not only she could not quit after her probation was over, she could actually lose her job.

[Our event is postponed. Please tell your secretary that we will reschedule. Sorry, but there is an emergency at the company.] She sent a message to Caspar.

[Okay.]

Caspar sent a short reply to Finland five minutes later. His reply made Finland felt curious; why he didn't wonder that such a big event could be postponed?

Or maybe he already knew what had happened...?

[Won't you ask what the problem is?] She sent another message.

[There was a commotion on the stock market, right?] Caspar answered curtly. [Your company is facing a lot of problems and many contracts will be cancelled soon.]

For some reason Finland suddenly felt that the guy had something to do with the LTX shares plummeting this week.

[Do you have anything to do with it???]

[Maybe] came a reply from Caspar. [Maybe not.]

Damn, Finland was upset. If Caspar had anything to do with the plummeting of LTX shares this week, she wouldn't forgive him. He had no right to toy around with the fate of hundreds of LTX employees just because he was bored.

Finland suddenly recalled Caspar's annoyed look when he saw her and Tony having lunch at the Hotel Continental Moon Restaurant last week.

Did Caspar hear Tony mocking his appearance at that time? Was that the reason why he is now trying to kill the company?