Chapter 294 Turn the Table


    The air in the office fell into dead silence as soon as Reggie announced the result. Only the strong


    voice of his echoed again and again.


    “No! How could it be…” Lane murmured with disbelief.


    The smile froze on his face.


    Both n and Justin were also being too stunned to utter.


    To everyone’s surprise, the final winner turned out to be Leo instead of Lane.


    Lane hurried over to Reggie’s front as soon as he collected himself. He grabbed his hand hard,


    “Reggie, you must be mistaken, right? I have got all votes from the board of shareholders! It should be I


    who won this bet! How could it be him?”


    His voice was mixed with agitation and a bit of anger. Obviously, he was trying hard to hold back his


    anger to stay calm while speaking to Reggie. If the notary weren’t Reggie but someone else, he would


    have unleashed his madness.


    Reggie cast him a simple glimpse and said, “I am not mistaken. It’s Leo Cohen who won this time.”


    “Impossible! You must be biased toward him!”


    What Reggie said sounded like a catalyst to his anger. Lane shouted loud, “I have been taking the


    upper hand during the whole process even till the final moment! And I have got all votes! But you


    announced him to be the winner? Are you gonna deny that as being biased?”


    “Shut up!”


    Reggie huffed coldly with his eyes showing august look, “I, Reggie, have been honest and upright! I


    permit no bias mixing with my decision!”


    “But how…” Lane gritted while hearing that, looking agitated.


    “I have warned you before. Never underestimate your rival. It was you who turned a deaf ear to my


    words.”


    Reggie cast him a glimpse of indifference, “You did do a good job at the beginning. But you ckened


    your alert at the veryst moment. That’s why Leo grabbed the chance.”


    “Grab the chance…” hearing that, Lane seemed to be frozen. He suddenly turned around to look at


    Leo, looking confused. And so did both Justin and n, “Mr. Cohen, what did you do? Please tell me


    what’s going on?”


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    They could never figure out what was happening.


    At this moment, Leo happened to finish his tea. He slowly stood up, “Alright, let me exin the whole


    thing.”


    He smiled and walked over to Lane. When facing his teasing look, Lane couldn’t help flinching a bit,


    “What are you doing?”


    Leo didn’t respond. Instead, he squinted at him,” Do you still believe that the board of shareholders of J


    Group actually consists of a number of twelve?”


    “What do you mean?” Lane stared at him confusedly with a subtle change of expression.


    Suddenly, the door was opened. The middle-aged man entered again.


    He then handed over all votes to Leo. After that, he stood behind him, wordless.


    Without taking a look, Leo put all votes onto the desk. Then he looked at Reggie, “That’s it, right?”


    Reggie only responded with a nod. Then he stared at Leo meaningfully, only to find that this young man


    looked too imperceptible to be seen through.


    “You…but he…”


    The ‘twelfth’ shareholder actually handed over all the votes to Leo, which Lane had been struggling to


    get during the twelve days. With his eyes wide open, Lane was choked with disbelief.


    However, when he started to take what Leo had said into consideration, he finally realized what was


    going on, “This guy is not one of those shareholders?”


    “Finally.” Leo smiled wryly. Then he added, “That’s right. The number of all shareholders is actually


    eleven.”


    Hearing that, Lane was rendered ghastly pale. His face couldn’t help twitching.


    “No! Impossible!”


    He suddenly turned around to stare at Reggie, “Didn’t you say that there were twelve shareholders?”


    Impassive, Reggie looked at the loser who had gone mad, “Nobody has ever told you the exact number


    of shareholders. But you believed it based on your own conjecture.”


    Lane started to recall carefully. Indeed, no one had ever told me the exact number of shareholders.


    All of a sudden, a shiver went down his spine, “So…from the very beginning…”


    “Yeah, from the very beginning, you have been in my trap. I thought you would notice. But your


    overconfidence blinded your eyes.” Said Leo casually.


    Of course, Lane failed because he got the wrong information at the very beginning.


    Actually, the information he got wasn’t totally fake. It was Ted who founded J Group. While Marcus was


    proceeding ownership transfer, he offered all information to Leo.


    The original board of shareholders only consisted of eleven members. It was Leo who leaked wrong


    information to mislead Lane into believing that there were twelve shareholders.


    The whole n of Leo was set toy more credibility to the show-up of the middle-aged man, thest


    ‘shareholder’.


    Noticing that, Lane couldn’t help sweating all over his face, trembling and looking pale.


    Both n and Justin standing behind stared at Leo, amazed, deep down the eyes of whom shown


    great worship.


    No wonder Leo had been spending his time leisurely in Emerdale from the very beginning.


    Since the game had been set, while the pawn of which was Lane himself, Leo would need nothing to


    do but to wait for Lane ying his own part.


    With aposed look as usual, Leo somehow looked like a strong deterrent deep down his soul,


    under the eyes of whom Lane felt like he had nowhere to escape.


    “Do you know why I did nothing but asked n to have his guys spying on you aboveboard?” asked


    Leo.


    With no response, Lane just stared at him, revealing a sense of fear from the inside.


    Of course, he also doubted why Leo would ask n to nt some guys spying on him.


    What was more, those guys never carried out the mission in a stealthy way. Instead, they got


    themselves easily noticed by Lane.


    So what was the point for the spies?


    “So…” Lane suddenly gave out a shiver by a sense of realization.


    “That’s right.” Leo smiled and continued, “I made them conspicuous enough for you to notice so as to


    mislead you into a conjecture that I was gonna steal your votes. I did so to trigger your anger and then


    alert. How did you feel when you noticing you were surrounded by spies 24/7?”


    “I would be too fearful to ease even a bit of alert.” It was Justin who murmured to answer first.


    “Yeah, he did feel fearful while in the midst of anger. But soon he noticed that those spies did nothing


    else but watching only.”


    Leo continued to exin, “But Lane, you didn’t ease any alert. Instead, you were thinking if I was


    nning for some kind of trump to steal the votes from you. So you asked your man to buy a safe of


    high quality to keep all votes.”


    At this moment, only Leo’s voice sounded in the deadly silent office.


    “You thought it would be free from any risk as long as you had the safe. So you made a call of


    provocation. But my response stunned you again, making you wonder if I still had a way to get those


    votes from the safe.”


    “From that moment on, you would only deem me being bluffing. So you decided to ignore any action of


    mine. From then on again, your highly-intense alert finally cked.”


    Then Leo suddenly looked into his eyes and shouted, “You have been highly alert for the whole


    process but cked at the veryst moment, from which I could turn the table!”


    Hearing that, Lane slumped down with both knees hitting on the ground. lightnoveldaily