Chapter 208
The Shaw family wouldn’t give up. They saw teaming up with the Perkins Group as their way to succeed, and maybe even k way to get close to Yannis. So Yosef tried bribing one of the Perkins employens.
Lila had been paid off by the Shaw family about two weeks ago, after her family had trouble. The Shaws wanted to get the final quote from the Perkins Group, hoping it would help them make a deal.
Yosef promised to help her, then she worked for him. The knockout spray she used on Zinnia was actually her self–defense spray. Since it was her first time doing this, she got nervous, and ended up spraying too much on Zinnia.
Lila wasn’t really a threat, and the quote papers left in the office were just fake clues. Seeing thern wouldn’t have mattered. In the end, Zinnia just got caught up in all this by accident.
Zinnia sat back in the car as Yannis covered her with a blanket. Toby was driving them home, telling her what had happened. She asked softly, “So, what are you going to do with Lila?”
“Fired,” Yannis said coldly.
“Keep your eyes on the road,” Yannis said sharply, stopping Toby from talking too much.
Toby thought, ‘He’d get upset even if I said a few words to Zinnia. He is protective.‘
Yannis said, “She betrayed the company, so this is already a pretty kind way to handle it. If it were any other company, she’d be blacklisted and never work again.”
His way of dealing with it was already pretty soft. After all, she hadn’t really done much harm yet. She was just starting to act, and her plan didn’t work. Because her family was having trouble, Yannis decided to show her mercy.
Yannis didn’t want to scare Zinnia or make her think he was too harsh.
“Yannis, you’re really a kind person,” Zinnia said.
In those CEO love stories she and Maisie had been reading, CEOs broke the law, more like ruthless killers than real business people. Maisie kept saying how crazy those stories were.
‘Yannis is so law–abiding. At least I won’t have to worry about visiting him in jail someday,’ Zinnia thought happily.
“Yep,” Yannis replied without feeling guilty. In his mind, he was a good guy. As for the Shaw family, the ones behind everything, he planned to deal with them himself.
Yannis thought, ‘The Shaw family actually dared to hire people to hack our system. If I hadn’t personally written the main program and only brought in top cybersecurity experts, they might have succeeded.‘
The person who tried to hack their system really surprised Yannis. He didn’t think the Shaws had such skilled people.
Yannis thought, ‘That hacking trick feels/strangely familiar.
‘I wonder if I can hire that hacker. They have both bravery and skill–just the kind of person we need.’
Jackson pushed the Shaws into a corner. Yosef was angry. He wanted to prove the Shaws could survive without them. He was
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trying so hard to make a deal with Yannis, to make up for their losses.
Yannis thought, ‘The Shaw family is shameless. Even if I forget my friendship with Jackson, the way they treated Zinnia la muer to stop me from ever trusting them.
Business shouldn’t be based on feelings, but Yannis never followed just the rules. That was why he was such a headache for many.
Yosef’s actions were terrible–using Lila’s weakness and forcing her to do such bad things.
Yannis thought, ‘The Shaws are rotten inside. Thank goodness Zinnia wasn’t raised by them.
‘If Yannis had come to me and fought fair, I wouldn’t look down on him. Business is a war–people will do anything to win, and I respect that.‘
‘Using such dirty tricks–pressuring and exploiting a woman–was the worst thing in business.’
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