"Francesca is already at the city hall with the two executives from the AA Group, we'll be there in five minutes." David said after ending the call with his uncle's wyer.
"Good." Bryan nodded then called Elena, "Sis. How far are you in the fishing game?" He asked while checking the time one the new watch which Jessica insisted on having Kyle find them a pce to buy a few of them for their employer to complete the image.
"Almost done with this one and about to cut the line, this is so fun... it's almost dangerous you know that right!" Elena answered from the other side while moving circles around her desk in her office while being barefooted and squeezing a stress ball with one of her hands, "Thanks again for the driver, she helped me a lot already." The reason Elena is being nervous and unable to keep her cool in this situation is because after following Bryan's instructions she already managed to double then triple and now almost quadruple the funds she used.
Of course half the pure profits is hers because she dared to use her own assets to follow Bryan's crazy instructions.
Bryan fell silent for a while before saying : "No more big sister Elena, cut the line and sm the engine full throttle to get the hell out of there."
Elena immediately jumped towards the keyboard and pushed a button which automatically sold every stock they had on the wide variety of random companies in the market then looked at the two screens with both her bank account and Bryan's then grinned at the numbers which had nine figures on Bryan's account and her own but his account actually had more than double her own.
"Done." Elena said while sighing in relief and falling on the sofa in her office.
"You seem exhausted big sister Elena, tomorrow I'm taking you to have some massage to relieve everything you had to go through, I'm also transferring 5% of my own to you since you were the one doing all the work." Bryan said before confirming the transfer which caused Jessica next to him to widen her eyes because with a simple touch of her employer's thumb he sent that so-called big sister of his more than twenty-million!
Elena felt her phone vibrate and looked at the notification from her bank confirming receiving the transfer of eight more figures and felt warm inside, "You know that you really didn't have to do that... right?" She asked.
Bryan smiled and looked through the window while saying, "You using your own to gamble with your little brother had nothing to do with what you did for me, who knows? You might've lost everything by doing so."
"I'm a big girl... I can take responsibility for my own actions." Elena sounded a bit frustrated because despite trying to maintain her position as the senior in their weird retionship he still ended up taking care of her in the end.
"We can talk about that all we want once we meet tomorrow anyway."
"You're right there, but this isn't over!"
Bryan ughed after hearing how persistent this Elena is being then said : "Alright," But quickly afterwards the tone of his voice became a lot more serious when he added : "Are you ready for the next game?"
Elena sat up and shouted : "You have more pns for today?"
"Of course, just leave one-hundred thirty of the really big ones in my credit because I'm going to need them flowing to buy myself some important things, the rest of them I need to add them to my hidden stash of falling arrows. You're welcome to join me in riding the geyser but if you want to keep your head down then I recommend you do it in ten more minutes at five before noon... I've arrived to my meeting, see you soon sis. Bye." Bryan ended the call then muted his phone and gave it to Jessica then got out of the S-Css once Kyle opened his door for him.
"Mr. Bryan. Nice to meet you, I'm Francesca... Mr. Charles's legal representative but today I'm here on your behalf." A middle-aged woman in her te thirties but was dressed nice and looking sharp in her official attire with the tight yet fitting skirt stopping exactly above her kneecaps while her legs were covered by the dark stockings, the blouse she's wearing left a small line of cleavage visible while the bzer on top was holding everything tight and proper with the single button, on her neck was a piece of jewelry and a pair of earrings matching the colr which added more to the honorable look she was trying to give.
Bryan shook Francesca's hand then followed her gesture and walked next to her up the stairs where the sound of her heels kept ringing visibly and loudly, "Have they tried to push for more?" Bryan asked while both himself and Francesca stood in front the guards who used their hand held metal detectors to scan them again once they passed through the gate scanner.
"Of course! they think of Mr. Bryan the same way a leopard thinks of an antelope if they see one." Francesca said while taking her handbag from the pstic container.
"Do you think this would be a waste of my time?" Bryan asked once again while waiting for Kyle and Jessica to hand their fire weapons and everything before passing through the gate without it whistling like a steam train.
Francesca thought about it before shaking her head, "The offer you gave them is way too good and they'd be fools if they refuse it."
Bryan nodded then walked next to Francesca through the corridors of the building then up the stairs but his eyes were on his watch to check the time of their arrival at the meeting room, on his face was this sly smile and within his eyes was this dangerous look.
However, once Francesca pushed the double doors of the meeting room open only Jessica noticed that Bryan's expression shifted once again to being bnk and his eyes were looking down most of the time which gave him such a timid appearance that never suits his real personality at all.
'What's this guy on about?' Jessica thought while following her employer to his seat and stood behind him with Kyle.
On the other side of the table, two old men with completely white hair or almost completely white hair sat there looking at Bryan in silence once he sat next to Francesca.
'Is this a joke? I thought one of these two guys is the buyer or the representative of the buyer.' The two old men exchanged a look while having these thoughts then looked towards Jessica and Kyle who stood there behind this young man looking at practically nothing while acting like deaf mutes!
"Mr. Bryan let me introduce you, this is Chief-Executive Mr. Joe and Mr. Harvey is the Chief-Administrative of the AA Groups City-Branch." Francesca gestured towards the two old men.
Bryan looked at them and smiled timidly which boosted the two old men's confidence that there's still room for them to take advantage of this kid, Francesca on the other hand frowned imperceptibly once she noticed the clear sign of softness on Bryan's body nguage and thought to herself : 'Not good.' Once she saw the two old men on the other side of the table rex on their seats, "Have you gentlemen considered Mr. Bryan's offer?" She asked while trying to do her best to distract these two old foxes from gleaning more of Bryan's shortcomings and inexperience by attempting to lead these negotiations herself since Mr. Charles kept stressing that Francesca needs to do her best to stop that Chief-Executive and Chief-Administrative of the AA Group's City-Branch from taking advantage of his young friend.
"Well..." Mr. Joe who's the old man with the head of completely white hair gave an expression of struggling to come up with a decision.
Mr. Harvey next to him put on the spectacles on then opened two files in front of him and acted like he's revising the numbers.
But both of them smiled inwardly once they saw Bryan checking the time on his watch which caused Francesca to almost facepalm while thinking to herself : 'Can't you at least put your hand below the table before doing that? Now these two are going to stall to probe our position.'
But Bryan looked towards her and smiled before saying : "I see that you haven't made a decision yet and it turns out to be the best for me to wait since the price of your building is now cut by half."
Silence reigned for a while in the meeting room before the two old men chuckled while shaking their heads, "Hah!..." One of them sneered towards Bryan while the other gred at Francesca who was at a loss for what to do in this situation when this young man just said something so embarrassing.
"I'm sure Mr. Joe and Mr. Harvey have been keeping their phones muted just like me ever since this meeting started but... I'd recommend you check the news before saying anything you might regret ter." Bryan said while leaning back to rest on his chair, honestly he doesn't care if these two would listen to his advice or not, right now he literally has them by the balls!
Mr. Joe the Chief-Executive was about to say : "What nonsense is this fool saying?" But he decided to punish him ter after exposing his lies by increasing the price of their building even more.
Mr. Harvey the Chief-Administrative didn't even bother to do like his partner and grabbed his pen then scratched the number on the contracts they prepared before adding a few tens of millions to the total amount.
*Gasp*
Until he heard his old friend Joe take a deep breath and saw the hand holding the phone shake!
"What's going on old J-" Harvey didn't even get to complete his sentence when his eyes fell on the words behind breaking news which said : "Market Crash." Then went on to expin the area most affected by the crumble and among them the Real Estate Investment Trusts or "REITs" just took the biggest hit.
"Gentlemen. You're both responsible for managing a City-Branch of an International Company which is certainly going to quickly respond by cutting their losses in a failing economy at a moment of crisis," Bryan said while swinging his chair from side to side slowly, "However, instead of risking losing your jobs and having three thousand people who work for you getting released from their jobs I'm offering you a lifeline before the second wave hits and have you all tens of meters below the surface of debt where you get to roam the bottom with many other Zombie Companies. Believe me when I say that when I said that I can get my hands on the original amount you guys have been asking for but I never really said I'd pay it... simply because in three days I can buy the Country's Side-Branch of the AA Group with that amount of money."
Francesca gawked once she saw Mr. Joe and Mr. Harvey's body nguage shift from being bright and infted with sunny expressions to having their faces darkening with depression and their bodies shriveling as if all water got sucked out of them.
"Right now I'm feeling generous and am willing to pay sixty millions to finalize the contracts but I'm also fine with waiting for another hour while you make your calls and confirm the reality of the situation but... one hour ter I won't pay any more than forty-one millions since you guys wasted my time." Bryan said before taking his phone from Jessica who showed him that Elena is calling him for the second time already.
"Hey big sister, surprised aren't you?" Bryan said smugly while ignoring the two old people in the room then winked towards Francesca who still can't process what just happened ever since Bryan took control of the conversation, "Of course your little brother knew this was going to happen sister! Didn't I take care of providing you with a life tube before things came crashing down all of a sudden?"
"That was a freaking submarine!" Elena shouted while feeling greatly indebted to this young man who shielded her from the earthquake which is currently hitting and shaking the very foundations of their market, but the smile on her face widened because the stark contrast to this situation is their joint shares which their prices is going up at the moment while everything else is falling down... simply because the current Chairman and the person with the strongest sway among the twenty-two CEO's of this humongous conglomerate is the only person remaining between the two who originally ran for the presidency elections after the first once got exposed to the public.
"You should probably take the day off big sister, you sound stressed... have the driver take you somewhere nice away from the noise of people and we'll talk more once we meet tomorrow, I'm still in a meeting. Bye now." Bryan said before handing Jessica the phone and noticed how she charmingly rolled her eyes at him then shook her head.
Francesca, Joe, and Harvey looked at Bryan with doubt and wariness mixed in their chests.
Francesca sent Mr. Charles a message about what's happening in the meeting and immediately received his reply : "Don't leave Bryan's side even if your house is on fire right now!" Which shocked his wyer a lot.
Of course Francesca doesn't know that Charles Olivera was ughing like a maniac right now because most of the people in his circles of contacts which kept scolding him for being an idiot yesterday since he refused to put his money on this lucrative investment opportunity... all of them must be having a heart-attack by now while watching this news!
'That little fellow's advice really saved my ass! Oh~ It's about time for me to go meet Ms. Celest in the dealership.' Charles Olivera whistled his way to the changing room with a wide smile on his face which caused his madam Olivera to frown while watching him act so happy all of a sudden then squinted her eyes while thinking : 'Is this blockhead cheating on me?' But soon afterwards her husband came out all dressed up to leave and gave her a deluge of kisses which caused her to forget all about it.
Kyle stood there in silence and kept repying the events of today ever since he met his employer and was quickly scared out of his wits once the bodyguard realized that every single decision Bryan made might seem random and chaotic but in fact everything was perfectly calcuted and accounted for.
Mr. Joe and Mr. Harvey panicked more and more whenever they completed a call or read another message from their contacts which kept stressing that the situation is grim and bleak right now but all of the experts predictions are forecasting a tsunami coming their way, the ones who get to breath are the ones with strong foundations and a stack of funding high enough to break the surface of the flooding water.
Both of them already know that the foundations of their AA Group is strong enough but the funds are scattered between the City-Branches at the moment, unless they manage to somehow accumute the fund in those City-Branches and stack them high enough on a single Branch... then their fate would indeed become getting cut loose by the owners to save the Tree itself just like Bryan said earlier.
'If only we weren't so greedy! We could've at least sold him the building at a bit higher than market price or at least market price.' Both Mr. Joe and Mr. Harvey exchanged a look while wishing if they could turn back time to beat themselves on the head with the heel of their shoes!
"We agree Mr. Bryan." Mr. Joe balled his fist while saying that then lowered his head as if surrendering to his fate.
"Come with me Ms. Francesca, let's go fix these contracts." Mr. Harvey sighed but gathered his strength to smile towards this legal representative.
Francesca was about to get up after nodding while feeling sorry for these two old men who thought themselves the hunters earlier only to discover ter that they're not even the hunted but already domesticated by this young fellow instead, "There's something else I'd like for you to do to me Francesca," She stopped once she heard Bryan and Mr. Harvey shivered at the notion of having this young fellow torment them any longer than they already are.
Bryan smiled towards the Chief-Administrative and gestured with his hand to calm him before saying : "This matter has nothing to do with our deal, sixty million is still on the table for you if you're willing to finalize this deal."
*Sigh*
Mr. Harvey was no longer able to keep his emotions in check and nodded before grabbing his files from the table and leaving the meeting room with his partner so that Bryan can talk about his matters in private with his legal representative.
Francesca watched the two old man leave the room then looked towards Bryan once the door closed, "What is it?" She asked while turning her chair to face this young man.
"There's a plot of nd I wish to buy from the city, the location is at the outskirts near the forest by the border. See if you can have them sell the piece with the dwarf mountain as the center and extend the diameter at least 5km beyond the river north in the forest then draw a circle." Bryan said and Francesca was shocked because buying such a gigantic piece of nd from the government would certainly be very, very, very... costly indeed.
"I'll see what I can do." Francesca nodded before getting up.
Bryan waved his hand to calm her once he saw this legal representative being so excited and opened his mouth to say : "No need to be in such a hurry... this is just us dangling the bait Francesca! Once they realize that they need my money... These government officials would shove one another out of the way as they come knocking on my door, I believe this would take at least week or so until the contracts are inked and the nd is officially mine."
Francesca realized that her attitude was wrong and immediately nodded then left the meeting room.
"You've been pying everyone from the very beginning! So evil." Jessica teased while walking around the table to stretch her legs a bit or they might fall asleep if she keep standing still for a bit more.
Bryan smiled and said nothing until Francesca returned with the two old men Mr. Joe and Mr. Harvey, once she sat next to him she leaned towards his ear and whispered : "The bait is set... there's clearly some interest from the mayor, his eyes brightened once I handed him the offer but he's not your run of the mill politician so I bet he'd make his calls and send some of his people to scan the nd first."
"Don't contact him again and if he tries to contact you in the future just say that this offer was made by one of Mr. Charles's friends and that I've specifically said that I'm busy dealing with the mess our economy has caused my businesses so... Unless the government is serious about selling the nd during a meeting then I'm not willing to distract myself at all." Bryan said then accepted the file Mr. Harvey pushed towards him and started to slowly read the contracts.
Once he confirmed that everything was exactly like he wants he signed the papers and wired the money to the bank account then shook the hands of these two old man, right now he owns the Serene-Haven building and the City-Branch of the Apex Athletics Center plus the parking space and the helicopter on top which is something he didn't expect to get his hands on so soon!
Within the rules of the contracts is his rights to either continue allowing the Side-Branch to send their clients to his Center or not but Bryan allowed them to do so on the condition of having his own people given the priority to the different facilities and all conflicting dates would end up with them being the ones ending up in trouble with their annoyed clients, in exchange they're to take care of all personnel working in the building while providing Bryan with a major share of the Center's profits.
Of course Mr. Joe and Mr. Harvey didn't like the unfair split but they had nothing to say when their hands are forced.
