The Consortium's Heir

Chapter 53

The next few days were incredibly tough for Darius as there were only two days before the one week leave granted to him ran out. He had spent the majority of liis time in the study room going over several documents regarding the Reid consortium. However despite his efforts, he had yet to even finish 10% of the work he was supposed to do regarding the Reid consortium.

After signing one more document, he leaned back into his chair and sighed. There were still several documents arranged neatly on the table waiting for him to go through them.

He finally understood what his grandfather meant. There was no way he could handle this work alone. He had fully focused on working during the past few days, yet he had covered so little. He dared not imagine what the case would be when he resumed school. At this rate lie would not even be able to get 1% of the work done.

Darius sighed once more. He looked at the antique clock in his study room and saw that it was already time for lunch. He had worked overnight and was so engrossed in his work that the time flew quickly

He hastily took a shower before having his lunch. As soon as he was done eating, his phone pinged, signaling the arrival of a message.

Darius checked the message and saw that it was from Bruce. It was a message updating him about one of the business deals he needed to finalize. There was also a file attached to the message

connected his phone to his laptop and opened the file. He spent the next ten minutes reading the

to finalize the deal was between Nix Inc., a subsidiary of the Reid consortium and Numbers

locally acclaimed company which was founded by Rob Bertrand. Rob had founded the company from scratch and built it into the business empire that

very high expectations for it. They had expected it to grow into a mammoth business empire that

months ago. It came as a shock to the business world. Before luis death, he

his competitors in the tech world were responsible for his death, however as there were no evidence even after research to prove their involvement in his

as Nix Inc. which was under the Reid consortium, they still held considerable weight in their district. Before the death of Rob, the company had a net worth of over $350 million. It was a considerable sum

mind to lead the software based company to

were the first to get hit, with the stock price of the company dropping over 1,000%. Coupled with that, the quality of tech products released by the company also dropped massively. This resulted in a huge loss of sales for the company. Unable to bear the weight

the software company was actually worth. With total agreements between both sides, the

latest technology they developed. Darius’ presence wasn’t necessary as they would still send the details and conclusion of the meeting to him, but since