"You don't understand how embarrassing it is to enter in a wheelchair as the world's top ten richest woman and CEO of SY Group. I don't want to be taken as a puppet CEO or a useless addition to the company, I have a reputation to keep."
Georgia and Elsie argued as they took the CEO designated elevator and went to the top floor.
The CEO office and a few conference rooms were located here. There were also over ten assistants assigned for the CEO, other shareholders offices were not on the same floor.
The lineups of assistants stood up and greeted Georgia as soon as she stepped in. Like an owner patrolling her territory, Georgia smiled at everyone and let Elsie pushed her into her office.
Wilson entered not long after. Georgia sent all the bodyguards away and only Georgia, Elsie and Wilson remained in the room.
"Last night you said the PR team requested you to be present at work today, what about the next step?"
Wilson asked Georgia, his position now was Georgia's lead assistant. Despite being an assistant, his power was huge, he handled matter that required signatures and stamps from the CEO. Georgia listened and trusted him fully, but she wanted to handle stuff related to PR herself, hence, Wilson followed her steps.
After the online debate exploded last night, Georgia came to SY Group to put on a show, letting the reporters take pictures proofing that she worked here.
However, Wilson didn't know about step two. Georgia had it all planned out, she told Wilson.
"I know Robert, he won't care that I'm the CEO of SY Group or I inherited Aidan's fortune. I don't think he is the one behind what happened online, he only cares about things related to his reputation, so what you need to do next is…
"Release a statement online saying that I inherited Aidan’s fortune because Robert refused to. Hence, Aidan thought of another way, which was making his daughter in law the heir and later will be inherited by his grandson. This sounds reasonable enough and was also Aidan’s intention."
Wilson frowned hearing Georgia.
"Ms Lane, if you release such a statement, the attacks online will worsen, they will claim that you are not the rightful heir because you are not Robert's fiancee and people against you will double."
"I know that many will say I picked up stuff that is not belonged to me, shaming me for scamming others' fortune. But only with these rumours that we could test Sierra or lure out the people behind who have been eyeing the fortune. They will make a move and it will be our chance during this chaotic moment to break free and find those people behind the curtains, discover their intentions and their next move. It's always a good way to follow the vine to reach for the fruit."
That was her intention, Wilson now understood Georgia and he nodded in slight doubt.
"You will ruin your reputation by making yourself the bait, it's not fair for you."
"Wilson, do you think reputation is important? I was accused as a plagiary seven years ago and then was jailed as a murderer. Despite the truth was revealed later, there was still a lot of people who disliked and scolded me behind, claiming that I was lucky, it was all an act… until now, people had never stopped criticizing me. Unless I allowed it, otherwise none of the criticism could harm me a tiny bit. Even if Aidan made me his heir because of that reason, but it's never stated in the will that I have to be Robert's wife to inherit his fortune. But the outsider doesn't know this, they might think there is such a term written on the will and uses it to attack me. I need to lure them out instead of sit and wait. Robert is marrying Sierra soon and I don't have much time left, I need to expose my weakness to find theirs."
"I understand, I will make arrangement right now."
Wilson nodded and stopped advising Georgia. This was a good way to make the other party take action. Their investigation on Sierra bore no fruit so far as well as what happened to Robert for the past year.
Wilson was pretty anxious and wanted a breakthrough too. Since Georgia didn't care about her reputation, then things had become easier.
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