Chapter 115
Fiona quickly shielded her purse. “What are you doing?”
Silas said, “I can’t stay here any longer, Fiona, give me some money so I can get away
Fiona only had this one brother. She had told Silas many times to stop gambling. For a while, he listened and stopped. But now, he was back in his old ways, which made Fiona furious.
She could only pull out 6 thousand dollars. She said, “This is all I have. I don’t even have enough for Max’s surgery. Just go hide. You hear me?”
“Yeah, I got it. Don’t worry,
y help you get the money for Max’s surgery back. I promise,” Silas said.
Silas took the cash and hurried oft. He counted the bills as he walked to make sure it was enough,
Fiona wondered what she should do if Andrew asked about the 30 thousand dollars she didn’t have.
Just then, she turned around and saw Anna standing there. Her heart skipped a beat. She quickly composed herself and walked over to Anna.
“Anna, what are you doing out here?” she asked
“You hadn’t come back y
left.
so I came
out to check on you. Mom, why is Uncle Silas here?” Anna asked, glancing in the direction from which Silas had just
Fiona replied with a smile, “He came over because he’s worried about Max. Back when we were in prison, no one was there to look after Max. It’s your uncle who stepped in to help
“He told me he has been keeping an eye on the guy who hit Max, and he promised he’ll keep following up on what happens next, so we don’t have to worry about it
Anna just nodded, not sure if she believed her or not. She asked, “By the way, Mom, have you paid Max’s hospital bill?”
“Not yet I was about to take care of it. You can go check on Max, and I’ll go handle the payment,” Fiona replied.
“I’ll go with you,”
Anna said.
“No need,” Fiona replied.
As Anna was about to leave, she shot Fiona another glance, unable to shake the feeling that something was off about Fiona, even if she couldn’t say exactly what
Still, Anna went back to check on Max.
Fiona was at her wits end. She didn’t want to sell Anna’s jewelry, but when she asked Stella for money, Stella refused. Fiona wondered, “Am I really going to just stand by and watch Max die in the hospital?
She called one of the servants at home and told her to sell Anna’s jewelry.
It took Fiona a long time to pull together 30 thousand dollars, but she was surprised to know that someone had helped with 15 thousand doll She hurried back to the hospital room and asked, “Who paid the 15 thousand dollars?”
Emily immediately said, “It was probably Dr. Quinn. Earlier ho-
Before she could finish, Anna quickly cut in,” wasn’t Dr. Quinn, Mom. It was Emily, She–didn’t want anyone to know. I was going to tell you earlier, but forgot it in a rush.”
Fiona didn’t suspect and quickly grabbed Emily’s hand.
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Fiona said, “Emily, we have no idea how to thank you. You already gave us 30 thousand dollars before, and now another 15 thousand dollars. You mus be almost out of money yourself. I know how much you care about Max, but his situation…”
Of course, Emily understood what Finna treant. The Hayes farby was always her, but they had never once brought up the idea of her manlying:
Max
Emily knew her family was way too average for the Hayes family to ever consider her good enough.
The Hayes family had never thought about letting her marry into the family. All they ever promised was to pay her back when they could, but if they didn’t have money, they wouldn’t pay anyway.
“My pleasure, I totally understand, Mrs. Hayes. I just don’t want anything to happen to Max. Whatever I can do to help, I will,” Emily said.
“You’re such a good girl,” Fiona replied
Anna had never once tried to play matchmaker or push her and Max together, either.
Emily understood it better than anyone, but she loved Max so much that she wanted to stay by his side, watching over him, even if it meant sacrificing more for him.
At Hayes Group, Stella had been poring over the company’s financial reports for the past few days, only to find that the company was like a tree that had been rotting from the inside out for years.
It turned out that Hayes Group hadn’t been doing well all these years. It had only survived because of the money she had been pouring into it, and it had been operating at a loss the whole time.
Stella couldn’t help but laugh at how ridiculous it all was.
She had thought Max had some talent, but it turned out he was just as useless as the rest of the Hayes family
She didn’t have the human resources department hire anyone new lately. Instead, she called a meeting.
She had already promoted Jasper to the position of vice president
At the meeting. Stella tossed the stack of documents onto the table in front of everyone.
She said, “Take a look at this. The company is in such a mess. No wonder we ended up bringing in someone like Mr. Bass to help us.
“This project is an abyss. If we don’t put a stop to it, even tons of billions wouldn’t be enough to save us. My opinion is that we have to go through a transformation.”
Everyone was reading the documents with their faces turning extremely grim,
They weren’t key players in the company, so they had never had access to this kind of information before. Now that they read them for themselves, they were all left speechless.
Stella said, “We’ve got money on hand right now. We have Mr. Jordan Erwin’s investment and my own money. I’ve got ways to pull in more investors, too But we have to launch a brand–new project”
Jasper looked serious. “Ms. Hayes, what do you think we should do? We don’t have the talent for something like Al technology, and it would a lot to hire technical personnel, Besides, all the good ones are already snatched up by the big companies.”
“We can get into the supermarket business,” shell said.
Everyone looked at Stella like she was crazy. After all, supermarkets were everywhere. Once one went under, another popped up. People didn’t think the Hayes Group had strengths.
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Stella explained, “I’ve been hitting up supermarkets a lot lately I found most of the stuff on the shelves is loaded with chemicals and weird additives. It’s a real health risk for people.
“And for the prices, we can control costs, but why are things cheap outside but expension in the supermarket?
“Plus, supermarkets aren’t diverse enough. We should make a place where people can walk in and get everything they need for a full meat, atti stop, no more running around to different stores. Maybe that’s the way to go”
None of them ever really shopped at supermarkets themselves, so they honestly had no clue what Stella was talkin
Everyone looked at each other. None
about.
Stella could see their confusion. She said, “Wright. Here’s what we’ll do. I’ll give you some time to go out and do some research. You need to find out what regular folks want from a supermarket, and then we’ll make improvements based on that.
“I believe we can build a better supermarket if we do this.”
With that, Stella left the room
Her assistant hurried over, keeping pace with Stella. He said, “Ms. Hayes, there’s someone outside named Silas Clark. He said he is your uncle and wants
to see you.”
Stella suddenly stopped in her tracks. If Silas hadn’t shown up himself, she would have forgotten that this uncle of hers even existed in her family.
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