The Heiress He Underestimated novel Chapter 133

133 The Fight For Nethys Medical

The next morning brought new chaos. Elera was in the lab running tests when Frost appeared looking grimmer than usual.

“We have a problem. A big one.”

‘Bigger than the problems we already have?”

‘Unfortunately, yes.” He pulled up security footage on the lab monitor. “This was taken an hour ago at Nethys Medical headquarters.”

The footage showed a man in an expensive suit entering the building, surrounded by lawyers. Elera recognized him immediately. David Chen. Her father’s associate. The same man who’d delivered threats to Xan about the investigation.

‘What’s he doing at my company?”

‘Serving papers. He’s representing a group that’s attempting a hostile takeover. They’re claiming financial mismanagement, lack of proper oversight, and demanding an emergency board meeting to vote on new leadership.”

Elera felt ice run through her veins. “Who’s behind it?”

“The paperwork lists a shell corporation as the primary investor, but if you once again trace it back…” Frost pulled up a financial web that looked like a conspiracy theorist’s dream board. “It eventually leads to two sources. One is a Cayman Islands account that we can’t fully penetrate but has Valdris fingerprints all over it. The other is Meridian Holdings.”

‘My father,” Elera said. “My father and Xan are trying to take my company.”

‘It appears so. And they’re moving fast. The board meeting is scheduled for the day after tomorrow. If they get enough votes, they can force you out of your own company.”

Drakonius appeared in the doorway, already pulling out his phone. “Not if we move faster. Elera, who on your board is loyal to you?”

‘Most of them. They don’t know I’m the CEO, but they respect Dr. Mystral. They’ve never had reason to doubt the leadership.”

‘Then we tell them. Today. Right now. We call an emergency meeting of our own, you reveal your identity, and you rally them to fight the takeover.”

“But that ruins the careful rollout plan. We were supposed to wait until after your investment story settled.”

“Plans change so we adapt.” Drakonius was already typing on his phone. “I’m calling my lawyers. We’ll bury them in so much litigation they won’t know which way is up. But you need to secure your board first.”

Elera’s mind was racing. This was it. This was the moment. No more hiding and no more careful strategy. Just action.

“Frost, get me the board members on a video call. All of them. Within an hour.”

“Done.”

Finished

“Clara, I need you to draft a statement. Not for public release yet, just for the board. Explaining who I am, why I’ve been hidden, why they should trust me.”

“On it.”

“And someone find out exactly what evidence Xan and my father think they have. What are they using to claim mismanagement?”

Everyone scattered to their tasks. Within forty–five minutes, Elera was sitting in the conference room with a camera pointed at her and twelve board members of Nethys Medical on the screen, all looking confused and concerned.

“Thank you for joining on short notice,” Elera began. “I’m sure you’re all aware of the attempted takeover. I’m calling this meeting to explain exactly what’s happening and why we’re going to fight it.”

“With all due respect, Dr. Mystral,” one of the board members, an older man named Richard, said. “We need to know who you really are. The rumors have been flying for days. Are you connected to the Nethys family? Are you Kieran Nethys’s daughter?”

“I am Kieran Nethys’s daughter,” Elera said, letting the bomb drop. “My name is Elera Nethys Vex. Some of you may know me as Raven Shadowmere, the author. But my first identity, my truest identity, is Dr. Mystral. I founded Nethys Medical years ago when I was twenty–one years old. I built it from nothing using money I earned from my first novel. And I’ve kept my identity secret because I knew that if people connected me to my father, they would assume he built this company. They would assume I was playing with daddy’s money and not creating something entirely my own.”

The board members were staring at her in shock.

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