He Married His Hometown Neighbor, Then Begged for a Second Chance novel · Chapter 19 of 40
Chapter 19: The Bad Idea
Ethan Ross had not slept in his own bed for nine days.
He slept in the guest room instead, on top of the covers, in a grey T-shirt he had found in the bottom of the laundry basket.
It was Evan's.
It no longer smelled of anything, and he put it on every night.
On the morning after the Expo he stood in the boardroom with his hands flat on the walnut table, and nine people looked up at him.
Seven of them had voted Evan out.
None of them mentioned it now.
"The numbers are brutal," said the oldest member, a white-haired man who had known Ethan's father. "Eleven percent in two days. Clients are reading the Expo as a verdict."
"I read the Expo," Ethan said.
"Then you know what Shieldon has."
"Yes."
"We need Resolve Plus." The old man spread his palms. "Not copied, not licensed. Ours. If Green won't come back, then we take the company that holds him."
"He's not for taking."
"Everything is for taking, Ethan. That's what your father taught you."
At the end of the table Maya shifted.
She had a faint grey shadow under each eye that her makeup did not quite hide.
She had not been fired.
The vote to remove her had failed, four to five, and Ethan had been one of the four.
He would have to think about why later.
"May I?" she said.
He nodded.
"Shieldon has one supplier for its servers. We hold nine percent of that supplier since dawn. A little more, and we can slow Shieldon's deliveries to a crawl without breaking a single law."
"And their stock?"
"Weak orders and a late launch. A short position here and there, a quiet one." She spread her hands, and for once she did not smile. "They'll panic. The investors will go. Shieldon will have to sell, and Evan will have a company that can't pay him."
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