Chapter 221 - Two Hundred And Twenty-one: Dismiss Her As The CEO (1/2)
The third point of view
Christina strode into her company, her heels click clanking against the marble floor. The look on her face was harsh and murderous that no employee dared got in her way. It was obvious that she was pissed off.
Anger reeked off of Tina, those bugs dared to dismiss her? How dare they?
Entering the elevator, one of the employees who had been there before her quickly high-tailed it. They all knew and experienced how violent their boss lady could be when mad.
Pressing the button to the tenth floor, Tina wrapped her arms across her chest while her feet tapped on the floor impatiently with her lips pressed together.
Why was this elevator going so slow? She wished she could teleport herself to the conference room.
Well, at last, her prayer got answered cause the elevator doors finally opened and she made her way to the meeting room.
”Ma'am, you're not supposed to be here,” A filthy employee tried to stop her in her own company?
Anger boiled in her veins and Tina turned around and backhanded the woman so hard that her long artificial nail clawed at the victim's face, drawing blood.
”Know your place, filth,” she spat acidly and strutted into the conference room.
She pushed open the glass door carelessly, making an epic appearance.
”Well, well, what have we here?” Tina drawled dramatically, giving her board of directors accusing gazes ”A bunch of traitors planning my dismissal, isn't it?”
”You're welcome miss Tina, though the meeting's over” She watched her brother Luke stand to his feet with that sleazy smile that made outrage ripple through her.
He went on,” You shouldn't have bothered yourself coming here. We were planning on delivering the news face to face,”
Tina had been feeling some dissonance from her board of directors lately, she should have known that it was her brother's evil manipulation.
”You can't oust me from my position, I own a controlling share of the company!” Tina insisted.
”Oh, come again, you owe the controlling share?” her half-brother cleared his ears with his finger in a mocking gesture.
He went on ”Ah yes, you owed forty percent? Yes, I think that's right,” he said comically.
”Do you think I'm here for your jokes?” Tina glared at him yet was unsettled by his charisma. Why was that scumbag confident about defeating her?
”Of course not,” her brother smiled, exposing cute dimples, and oh, how much she hated that face.
They didn't need to conduct a DNA test to confirm if Luke was her father's child or not, his features were strikingly similar to him. Their blonde hair was the only feature connecting both- Tina and Luke- as siblings.
While Luke took every other resemblance from their father, she had inherited the rest from her mother.
Her brother started, ”You had forty percent share,” he purposely emphasized on the tense ”had”. ”Did you forget you sold ten percent of it?”
Ahh, right, Tina remembered. She had sold those shares to fund hospital research by doctor Sam as promised - the trap Niklaus led her into. Oh shit.
”Well, guess what? Someone bought that share plus the vote from the majority of the board members; you were voted out,” He announced.
Tina was stunned, she felt like she didn't hear right, ”That's impossible, you can't terminate me!”
”We just did,” A board member said.
Tina's eyes became fierce and she focused them on the man,” You!” She walked over to him.
”I helped you out when you were experiencing some troubles and this is how you repay me,” she purposely emphasized on the ”troubles”.
The man went red, looking uncomfortable as he readjusted his tie on his neck.
”Are you threatening a board member, Miss Tina? You do know that's punishable by law?” Luke reminded her with a knowing look.
”Oh please spare me the bullshit,” She rolled her eyes, ”And who gets to be the new CEO, you?” Was her mocking laughter.
”For the company's future growth and success, the board has appointed me as the new president,” Luke dropped the bombshell.
”Impossible!” Tina lurched at him but before she could lay a finger on him, two security guards appeared by her side and held her.
”You thief! You finally succeeded in taking what doesn't belong to you!” She accused him.
Luke approached her saying,” We are not entirely chasing you out of the company,” he informed her, ”Once you agree, we can fix you in another department where you head the product or ….”
He came closer,” You can decide to leave and we can negotiate some outgoing compensation —perhaps some stock vesting acceleration or severance pay,” Luke proposed.
”Go to hell with your packages but I promise you all, you're going to regret this!”
”Why would they regret this? We all need a president who can scale and not just one who barks orders and threatens a board member,” he purposely pointed out.
”You know?” Luke said in a tone low enough for her to capture,
”This wouldn't have come to this if you had just left me and my mother alone,”
”You are a scum and your mother is a slut and a golddigger who purposely opened her thighs for my father so this could happen and it finally did as I predicted,” Tina insulted.
”No, this happened because you made me desire that power so I could protect my loved ones from your cruel acts!” He heaved, veins protruding from his head.
Luke took a deep breath,” You know? I felt guilty earlier for taking this spot from you but now? I don't regret a thing anymore and huge thanks to Niklaus, by the way.”