Pampered by My Ex-husband (Penny and Orlando) novel Chapter 106

Chapter 106 This Couple Looked Like Total Strangers

When Penny was thinking wildly, Orlando's phone rang. It was Zane calling.

Orlando left in advance to attend the emergency meeting with the overseas company. But now, he was trapped in the elevator and it was useless to say anything. He only asked Zane to make preparations to attend the meeting in replace of him.

Zane was Orlando's right-hand subordinate and it was not his first time attending a meeting in replace of him. Therefore, he got himself prepared soon.

With an indifferent expression, Orlando looked as if he was standing in his backyard even though he was trapped in this small space. He didn't look anxious at all.

"Mr. Fletcher, I've delivered your words to Cason. I only told him not to let Ms. Stuart do things she isn't supposed to do."

Orlando nodded. He thought of the promise that woman made to his grandfather she promised to give birth to his baby! At the thought of this, he suddenly felt fretful.

"Did you let the Department of Business Affairs suspend the Stuart Group's project?"

Penny who stood beside him stiffened when she heard the words. She even thought she might have misheard it.

Through the mirror surface that reflected lights, she could see the disgust in his eyes. And she pressed her lips tightly.

She finally figured out why her father's illness would suddenly deteriorate. He got agitated and was then sent into the emergency room probably because Orlando's assistant had said something to him, plus the Stuart Group's project was suspended.

She, as Cason's daughter, of course, was worried about him.

However, it was true that the contraction of the Stuart Group's business scale over the past several years was mainly because they were too dependent on the social connections brought by the Fletcher Group.

She had tried to persuade Cason not to expand the family's business or blindly seek investments at such a critical juncture.

Once the company was closely connected to the banks, it would owe more and more debts. At that time, it would only be a matter of time before the company went bankrupt.

The business world was like a battlefield. And the bigger a company was, the more its executives should watch out for matters like cash flows.

Once the cash flows were cut, the company would have to suffer a catastrophe.

After declining for several years, almost all the cash flows of the Stuart Group had been cut. If they had taken an emergency solution to cut unnecessary projects and reduce the staff, the Stuart Group wouldn't be in such a difficult situation.

However, Cason had started his career step by step from the grassroots after all, and in the face of the senior employees who had worked for him for years, he couldn't make up his mind to lay them off.

Therefore, most of the executives of the Stuart Group were slack. They got paid every month yet seldom focused on their jobs. Their subordinates also had the same attitude. With such employees, how would the company develop?

Although Keely's words were harsh, one of his sentences was very correct Cason wasn't capable of managing a company.

If he was just managing several small stores, of course, he would do a good job.

However, when the company was listed, it required its decision-maker to be more decisive and cold-hearted. Apparently, Cason didn't have these qualities.

But he didn't want to admit his failure. He was reluctant to see the company he established gradually go bankrupt and this was the reason why he insisted on a second-round financing before.