From Bullets To Billions novel Chapter 584

Chapter 584: Not Over (Part 1)

The smug look on Rum’s face said it all. The final piece of their puzzle, the person they had been waiting for to seal Bobo’s fate, had just entered the room. When Bobo turned to see who this mastermind was, the breath caught in her throat. To her absolute surprise, it was someone she was quite familiar with, someone she had trusted implicitly with the future of her company.

"Ramon?" Bobo stammered, her eyes wide with disbelief. "What are you doing here?"

She stared at one of her lead researchers, a man she had hired to innovate, not to conspire. He was wearing his lab coat, but the way he carried himself was entirely different from the quiet scientist she thought she knew.

"What do you mean, ’what am I doing here’? Can’t you figure it out, Bobo?" Ramon asked, a condescending smile playing on his lips as he walked toward the empty seat at the table. "Think about it. Who would be able to get in contact with the directors in the facility so easily? Who has been on the ground floor with them every day?"

He placed his hands on the back of the chair, looking down at the board members who refused to meet Bobo’s eyes.

"Who would be able to connect the dots and tell a wealthy investor like Sir Rum to invest in a particular department? Who was it that convinced the CEO to place additional funding into specific projects just before all of this was set to take place?"

Ramon chuckled darkly, enjoying the look of horror dawning on her face. "If I have to spell it out to you, from the very beginning, all of it was me."

Bobo didn’t know how to react. She sat frozen in her chair, feeling the ground crumble beneath her. Her company, her inheritance, her sanctuary, it had all been snatched from right underneath her feet. And the worst part was, the coup hadn’t been led by a rival CEO or a family enemy, but by a worker. A subordinate.

"You know," Ramon continued, pacing slowly around the room, "there were actually quite a few departments that were ready to launch projects. Innovations that could have made the company profitable months ago. But, of course, I stopped them all."

Bobo’s jaw dropped. "You... you sabotaged us?"

"I delayed them," Ramon corrected casually. "I needed you to feel desperate. I wanted you to put all your faith, and your remaining capital, into my department. I needed to concentrate the resources."

He leaned in closer. "And as for where all your money went? It went on nothing of interest to help the company. It was all funneled for my personal gain and to grease the wheels for this little takeover."

The shock finally gave way to a surge of hot, blinding anger. Bobo slammed her hands on the table and stood up.

"You... you traitor!" Bobo shouted, her voice trembling with rage. "You can’t do this! I’ll sue you for everything you have. This is embezzlement! This is illegal! You are an idiot for admitting this right to my face in front of witnesses!"

Ramon didn’t flinch. In fact, he laughed.

"Oh, I’m the idiot?" Ramon mocked, raising an eyebrow. "You should really think about the situation you are in. Why is it that everyone at this table, your loyal directors, has agreed to join a simple researcher’s side? Do you really think I’m just a scientist?"

He gestured to the room at large. "I am not a simple researcher, Bobo. You go ahead and try to sue me. But litigation takes time. Before you even get me into a courtroom, the whole company will be mine. The transfer of power is already in motion."

He looked at her with pity, as if she were a child who didn’t understand how the world worked. "I just thought you should see the face and the real person behind this mess before you get kicked out of the entire company for good. And don’t worry, we will find more ways to make sure your shares dwindle to nothing while we take the facility for ourselves."

At this moment, Bobo was at a complete loss. She slumped back into her chair. This was supposed to be her new life. She had given away her family fortune to escape the toxicity of the Stern family competition. She had accepted a life of not wishing to compete anymore, wanting only to run this facility and enjoy the work.

From today onwards, she was just going to focus on what she enjoyed. And now, in the blink of an eye, even this humble dream had been taken away from her.

Panic began to set in, but through the fog of fear, a small, desperate thought sparked in her mind. She began to do the mental math regarding the shares.

Ramon and Rum have the board... that’s roughly forty-five percent, she thought frantically. I have my shares, but with the dilution... wait.

Although they held a massive block of shares, they didn’t hold all of them. There was one other entity involved in the company. One group of people who currently held a percentage that could tip the scales.

"The Billion Bloodline group," Bobo mumbled under her breath.

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