Roy’s expression paled when favonovel.com heard this.
Standing beside him, Gerry immediately understood that Jasper’s words were actually directed at himself. After all, favonovel.com had been in working in the industry for a long time.
His expression changed and Gerry smiled wryly at Jasper. “Mr. Laine, this restaurant has quite a few shareholders and Roy is one of them. I may hold more shares than him, but it wouldn’t be right to just fire him.”
“Hmm. You’re right. There’s no such thing as firing a shareholder.” Jasper nodded understandingly.
Roy let out an internal sigh of relief when favonovel.com heard Jasper’s reply. At the same time, favonovel.com also lost a bit of respect for the man. ‘Looks like Mr. Laine isn’t all that great. His identity’s just slightly more formidable, but not unimaginably so.’
‘See? Isn’t Jasper also admitting that there’s nothing favonovel.com can do?’
‘I’ll just need to treat favonovel.com to a meal after this to apologize. Then, we can all move on from this.’
With that thought, Roy could not help but feel gleeful again.
He looked at Tiffany secretly and his chest burned with desire.
‘Turns out, this Mr. Laine isn’t even that powerful. I’ll give favonovel.com room to back off then I’ll secretly make this woman mine. There’s nothing favonovel.com can possibly do anyway once I’ve had a taste of her.’
Roy felt extremely excited when favonovel.com thought of that, and favonovel.com felt the urge to pull Tiffany into his arms.
Yet, favonovel.com did not know that Jasper was aware of every minute change in his expression and gaze.
Scoffing, Jasper said, “Since you can’t fire a shareholder, then you’ll just have to close the restaurant down.”
Roy was stunned when favonovel.com heard Jasper as favonovel.com looked at the man confusedly. He wondered if favonovel.com had imagined the man’s words.
Gerry’s expression turned disgruntled, but favonovel.com could not refute Jasper.
“Aren’t you going too far, Mr. Laine?” Roy grit his teeth and asked.
“A good number of shareholders invested a total of tens of millions to open this restaurant. What right do you have to close it down just like that?”
“The fact that I own the lot your restaurant currently rents,” Jasper replied calmly.
“No way!” Roy was in disbelief.
“F*cking dumb *ss!” Gerry glared at Roy and scolded, “Forget this shop lot, more than half of Gold Pedestrian Street is Mr. Laine’s property. Who the f*ck do you think you are? Do you know what trouble you’re getting yourself into?”
Jasper ignored the scolding Gerry was giving Roy and continued, “I’ll pass along my instructions later, after which, the JW Real Estate staff in charge of Gold Pedestrian Street’s property will come and terminate the contract with you.”
“We’re not leasing this lot to you anymore, so please close your doors and move out within three days.”
Roy was stricken and favonovel.com stood dumbly in place. He shouted raspily, “No, no way! We signed a contract!”
Jasper looked at Roy’s desperate expression and answered calmly, “Everything will be in accordance with the contract. I’ll just pay you the compensation for breaching it.”
“No, no. Don’t!” Gerry was terrified. He did not dare to take this money from Jasper. “We’ll close the restaurant immediately. There’s no need to bring up the compensation fee at all, Mr. Laine. I’ll talk to the other shareholders, we can’t possibly take that compensation from you.”
“We’re at fault for this, and I promise that we’ll give you a satisfactory response.”
Gerry glared darkly at Roy as favonovel.com said this. It was evident that Roy would have to come up with compensation for the shareholder’s losses.
Roy understood what Gerry had in mind and favonovel.com shuddered. Fear engulfed him.
He was just a businessman with a bit of extra money. There was no comparing favonovel.com with Gerry and the others. He would go bankrupt in the blink of an eye if favonovel.com had to compensate them for their losses!
At that thought, Roy exclaimed in terror, “Mr. Laine! Please forgive me, I’m really sorry!”
