Chapter 696

Secretary Lowell decided to venture one last comment. “Actually, Miss Gonzales is incredibly capable. Perhaps, this time, you’re the one who has misjudged the situation, Mr. Blake. I believe she can create a miracle.” Thıs content belongs to.net
At this, Clark threw his head back and laughed, a loud, booming sound that filled the office. The other departing shareholders joined in.
“Capable?” he wheezed. “Freya? Aaron, you’re so young, you haven’t seen what real capability looks like. That girl wouldn’t even qualify to be my assistant, and you expect her to perform miracles? That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all year.” Secretary Lowell said nothing more, simply returning to her work, her head bowed as she continued to stamp the papers.
The news of the mass shareholder exodus from Gonzales Holdings quickly went viral.
[The rats are fleeing the sinking ship! It looks like this is really the end for
Gonzales Holdings.]
[One day down, four to go. Let’s see if they can survive.]
[I never thought Gonzales Holdings would be brought down by their own heiress.]
[I bet Miss Gonzales isn’t having a very good time right now.]

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When Suzanne Sterling heard that four-fifths of the Gonzales Holdings shareholders had pulled out, she stared at her grandson in disbelief. “Justus, are you sure? They’ve all really left?
“It’s true,” Justus confirmed, handing her his phone. “Look, Gonzales Holdings even issued an official response.”
Suzanne scanned the screen, frowning. It was hard to process. Keira was her friend of many years. The thought of watching her family’s empire crumble made her feel a pang of pity.
“If you ask me, Freya brought this on herself,” Justus said, his eyes narrowed. “If she had just
apologized to professor Smith when he made his first statement, things wouldn’t have gotten this bad. But instead, she chose to go
head-to-head with him.”
“Head-to-head?” Suzanne asked. “What did she say?”
Justus pulled up Stuart and Caitlin’s posts and showed them to her. Suzanne read
them, her expression turning to one of sheer exasperation.
“Freya is young and reckless, fine. But how could Stuart go along with her nonsense?” she lamented, sighing. If they had simply stayed silent, the storm might have passed.
“I blame Keira, not the Gonzales
patriarch,” Justus declared. “He’s a victim in this too. Those two women are nothing but trouble.” He paused, catching himself. He was a traditionalist who fundamentally believed women were inferior to men, but he quickly changed the subject. “Grandma, I’ll say it again: you cannot help Keira out of some misguided sense of loyalty. Right now, anyone associated with the Gonzales family is toxic.”