Semua Bab The Arrogance System: I Become Richer: Bab 81 - Bab 90

Adam was back at his desk by eleven-fifteen.The drive from Orlen had taken twelve minutes, which wasn't enough time to fully process the conversation had beforehand but it was enough to separate the parts that mattered from the parts that were just Jasper being Jasper.Adam had done the sorting of information the same manner in which Melissa sorted documents.Useful in one pile, noise in the other.Useful: Kelvin Lacoste had sent Jasper. Which meant Adam wasn't worth Kelvin's direct attention yet. That was both an insult and an advantage depending on which way you held it.Useful: Jasper had listed his remaining levers he had unprompted. People who were in control of a situation didn't inventory their options out loud especially to their enemy. They just used them.Useful: The offer was five hundred thousand dollars. Below what Adam had paid for Titan. Which meant either Kelvin thought he was desperate enough to take it, or the siege had cost more than projected and the number reflec

Wednesday started on an easygoing note, unlike how the past few weeks had been it was a relaxing morning.At least, up till the afternoon.Adam was in the middle of preparing for the bank meeting on Thursday morning and the payroll in the afternoon of the same day.Two things sitting on opposite ends like weights on a scale he hadn't finished balancing.He was revising a document containing some of the questions the bank would ask including the ones the bank hadn't thought to ask yet.He was reading the document when his phone lit up.Walter Cho.Adam looked at it for a moment.Of all the calls he'd been expecting this week, this wasn't one of them. He picked up anyway."Walter.""Adam." Walter's voice had the same unhurried quality it always did. The voice of a man who had never learned to perform urgency because he'd decided early that urgency was mostly theater. "I'll keep it brief. The plot's still available and its numbers are actually better than when we last spoke."Adam set th

On Friday, there were seven people in the conference room by nine-fifteen.Adam sat at the head of the table, while Melissa was to his left with her notebook already open.Three senior project managers from Titan — Harris, Yuen, and a woman named Brid who had been with the company around its early conception and was one of the oldest employees of the company. The three of them had been under the company when Victor Hammond, the former owner, ran the place.On the other hand were the Havenridge operations lead, a methodical man named Saul who spoke accurately. And the company's part-time financial consultant, a woman named Obi who Melissa had brought in two months ago and who had a habit of asking the question everyone else in the room had been carefully avoiding.Adam had told them the broad shape of it the night before. About Walter Cho, the plot, the revised numbers, the timeline.He hadn't told them what he was going to do. That would have defeated the entire point of asking for th

On Thursday, Adam began to make his move.He'd been thinking about it since the meeting with Jasper at Orlen, examining it from different angles. He wasn't the kind of person who moved on instinct alone. He liked to know what he was picking up before he picked it up.But the mistake on Wednesday had clarified something.He was running out of days to wait for the right moment.The right moment was now, or it was after the end of the year, and after the end of the year was too late.The few days left weren't long enough to absorb another week of deliberation.So Adam decided to go over Jasper's head.Not to Kelvin.Kelvin was the engine of this. Adam suspected it was already personal to the heir, the kind of man who had decided Adam was a statement he needed to make and had been making it for two months regardless of the cost.Going to Kelvin was pointless. Kelvin already knew everything there was to know about his own operation and had decided it was worth running.The person worth ca

After the call ended where Adam set up a meeting time with Osei, he took a minute to reflect before calling for Melissa.."Close your door," he said when she picked up. "Then immediately come to my office."She arrived within a minute.Adam saw her questioning look upon entering so he walked her through the new information. He didn't go into the full details but made sure the important parts were successfully passed. Melissa listened without interrupting, which she only did when the information was significant enough that interrupting would cost her something. When he finished she looked at her notebook, then at him."The bank analyst," she said. "If that arrangement is still active and we can demonstrate it—""The review doesn't just close," Adam said. "It closes in our favor and someone at the bank has to face a significant problem.""Do we have enough proof to demonstrate it?""Not yet. But since Osei has the description, we would need to precisely search for a name and we need to