Regret Came Too Late

For the next week, Grace stayed quietly at home.

She made some inquiries about the situation at the company. During that week, Edric was strutting around proudly, replacing everything he didn't like.

A large portion of the upper management supported him, but a few still had a conscience and remained neutral. Now, all those neutral parties had been dismissed and had no choice but to call Grace.

"Ms. Lambert, what should we do? We've been with the company for many years."

Moreover, they were at an age where switching jobs was too much trouble, yet they weren't ready to leave the corporate world just like that. The position of CEO was akin to that of a ruler, and executives had to take a side. If you picked the winning side, the rewards would be tremendous.

And clearly, Edric disliked these fence-sitters.

Grace didn't particularly like them either, but at least they hadn't betrayed Quentin. So, she simply instructed them to wait for two more weeks.

They immediately asked if she had another move planned. It was obvious to everyone that Liam still needed more time to grow. Grace was the one truly in control.

But since she rarely appeared at the company, no one really knew how capable she was.

Grace didn't give them a direct answer and just told them to wait. After hanging up, she even had the mood to cook a meal for herself.

...

Three days later, Edric planned to lead a group to start developing the plot of land. Riding the coattails of the Yule family, he wanted to build a large hospital there. However, the project was barely submitted when it was rejected by the authorities.

The reason? There was an underground river. It was completely unsuitable for construction.

submitted it again, and it was denied once more. While still clinging to a sliver

over the project. But now that the truth had been made public, no one would touch that

into a cold sweat. The money had come from Excellent Group. Now that the land was useless, Excellent Group had basically lost two billion dollars in

Jayce called to ask about it, cold sweat dripped heavily down Edric's forehead as

fallen into Grace's trap. She might've known about the underground river in advance. It was probably

you're telling me two billion dollars has gone down

the money couldn't be recovered, he'd sell all his shares to repay the

turned chilling. "You have half a month. If I

pale as a sheet. He still held about 20% of the company's shares, but even if he sold them all, they weren't worth two billion dollars. Lambert Group's shares simply weren't valued

but she refused to

of options, Edric

just left the place where Alice was staying when he saw

me dead! If I can't recover Excellent Group's money, Jayce

been studying

gave him and

always been hostile toward Lambert Group. He didn't want to get involved

his pride and grabbed the hem of Liam's trousers, begging him

They had basically watched him grow up. And Edric had been with Quentin