Charles fell silent as well. For a moment, he couldn’t come up with a good solution. After all, they were going up against the head of the Salzburg Family, a presence that not even the Lane Corporation could mess with, let alone the current Paradigm Co. Otherwise, he would've put pressure on Connor right away in the Lane Family's name and forced him to return the spare parts.
Of course, there was another person at the moment who could make Connor hand over the spare parts— Toby. To Charles, however, Toby was both his love rival and a nuisance, so he couldn't ask Toby for help. He couldn't deign to do so, nor could he put aside his pride. At the same time, though, he couldn't tell Sonia to ask Toby for help. In reality, Sonia and Toby were a couple, so it was perfectly justified for her to ask Toby for help. However, Charles knew that Sonia wouldn't want to rely on men to accomplish something. Otherwise, she would've turned to Toby as soon as the incident happened instead of procrastinating until now. Therefore, he respected her ideas as a friend. Since she didn't want to ask Toby for help, he wouldn't bring this up, of course.
Furthermore, he had a selfish motive in not suggesting that she ask Toby for help. By telling her to go to Toby, he would undoubtedly acknowledge that he was no match for Toby in every aspect. He wasn't as useful as Toby, nor could he be of help to her as Toby was. He knew it was despicable of him to think like this, but it wasn’t like he wanted to do so. He had loved Sonia for over ten years, having fallen in love with her since he matured at the age of puberty. In other words, he had fallen in love with her much earlier than Toby had. In the end, however, Toby had stolen her from him twice. He had said that he would now give up, get over her, and give them his best wishes. Inwardly, however, he couldn't reconcile himself to this. In short, he was unwilling to go to Toby.
After much hesitation, Charles finally refrained from suggesting that Sonia turn to Toby for help. He merely asked, "Sonny, how about we try to purchase another batch of spare parts from another manufacturer of the same trade? Let's solve the problem with the spare parts first for the time being to let Paradigm Co. continue its operations. As for the matter of settling the score with Connor, we can do it slowly after that. What do you think?"
Sonia sighed. "Do you think that I've never thought of this solution? I considered it, of course, but it's useless. The spare parts manufactured by those of the same trade would have their manufacturer's logo engraved on them. If we buy them, we have to reprocess them in our factory to remove those logos and engrave Paradigm Co.'s logo on them. This will undoubtedly be a time- and labor-consuming big project that will take at least five days. So, by the time those logos are removed, Paradigm Co. will be in chaos. Of course, we can purchase spare parts that don't have any logos on them yet, but such spare parts are very much in the minority. Even if we buy such spare parts from all over the country, it probably won't be enough. The spare parts usually have logos engraved on them as soon as they're produced."
She inspected Rentoor's processing lines before, so she knew full well when the logos would be engraved on the spare parts. After all, the logos represented their companies so that one could tell the manufacturer of these spare parts at a glance. Because of that, engraving logos on the spare parts was a strict process that allowed no negligence, nor could they choose not to engrave logos on the spare parts.
Upon hearing her words, Charles grabbed his hair in frustration. "We can't do this, and we can't do that.
Then what else can we do? Or how about we confront Connor head on and snatch the spare parts back? But the chances of success are..." He didn't finish his sentence as it would hurt to do so. It was totally impossible for the current Paradigm Co. to go up against Connor and try to snatch the spare parts back.
"Say, how about we ask Zane for help?" he suggested again with a smile.
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