She's Too Busy Winning to Watch Him Cry novel Chapter 48

Chapter 48

Voices of agreement echoed around the table.

Knowing they would react exactly like this, Caleb offered a cold, mocking smile. “My parents are on vacation. They don’t need to be bothered with this. I make the decisions here.”

These parasites had grown insatiably greedy because the company had been far too lenient with them for too long.

And now, they had the sheer audacity to think they could run crying to Arthur and Delilah to complain about him and Lyra.

Seeing Caleb’s unyielding stance, the room devolved into a complete frenzy. They swarmed around him, shouting over one another, demanding an explanation.

“Caleb, you can’t just throw us to the wolves!”

“I basically watched you grow up! I’m an old man now, and you want me to lose my job? I have a wife and kids to support! Doesn’t the company care about us at all?”

Caleb’s voice cut effortlessly through the noise. “Fiona, your monthly salary is around ten thousand dollars. I’d love to know how you afford hundreds of thousands of dollars in private school tuition for your two kids on that kind of income.”

But reason was lost on the mob.

Someone scrambled to dial Arthur’s number.

Others aggressively crowded Caleb, nearly tearing his tailored suit jacket in the scuffle.

Seeing the situation escalating, Lyra held up her phone. “Since you refuse to accept reality, let’s just call the police.”

“You can’t do that!”

Fiona Sterling, the Financial Director, shrieked. She stammered for an excuse. “The police… it’ll ruin the company’s reputation. You can’t!”

No sooner had the words left her mouth than the faint wail of police sirens pierced the air, growing rapidly louder.

Someone peered through the glass windows down to the street and turned to Lyra in utter disbelief. “You actually called the cops on us?”

Several squad cars screeched to a halt directly in front of the Fairchild Holdings building.

In an instant, the deafening uproar in the conference room evaporated into stunned silence.

The most guilty among them turned ghostly pale, terrified that she had actually gone through with it.

“I left strict instructions to call the police if I didn’t step out of this room in thirty minutes,” Lyra said icily. “You’re all veterans here. You can either take your severance and resign voluntarily, or you can take a ride in the back of a squad car. The Fairchild family is perfectly happy to oblige either choice.”

“You little,”

Even as they were being hauled off in handcuffs, the delusional employees were still screaming. “I demand to see Arthur!”

“I want to speak with Chairman Fairchild!”

“We’re suing for wrongful termination!”

“Let’s see how you explain this to the Chairman!”

With a crisis of this magnitude exploding at the company, Arthur and Delilah couldn’t possibly continue their vacation. Arthur was already rushing back.

However, due to flight schedules, even boarding immediately meant they wouldn’t arrive home until nine o’clock that evening.

Though Arthur wasn’t back yet, his furious call lit up Caleb’s phone the moment Caleb stepped out of the conference room.

“You two are entirely out of line!”

“What the hell do you think you’re doing? I am still the head of Fairchild Holdings! I’m not dead yet!”

“Caleb, did you put your sister up to this? You’ve completely corrupted her!”

Caleb simply hung up and powered off his phone.