Sherman asked, "What about Mr. Williams? What does he say? Is he just going to let Ste get away with stealing the shares?"


    Aurora replied, "After Ste got Israel''s shares, her supporters within The Williams Group are now almost on par with my father''s faction. Even if Ste wanted to return them, those shareholders would never allow it. Ste doesn''t have to say or do anything; her supporters will handle it all for her."


    Shareholders didn''t care about sentiment; they cared about profit. Israel Williams had proven his ipetence, letting thepany get blindsided and losing at mind games and schemes to Ste. Continuing to support him would be foolish.


    To the victor go the spoils. For them, as long as you kept winning, it didn''t matter how you did it. Skyler Williams himself hadn''t been a saint in his early days, yet he had won thepany''s support, hadn''t he?


    Now, it was simply karma.


    If Skyler wanted Ste to hand those shares back, he''d have to get through the shareholders first. They were a bunch of old foxes who only cared about the bottom line, masters at spinning ck into white. Israel''s own livestream had backfired and turned into the perfect evidence against him.


    Aurora added, "Those shareholders have made it clear that if my father insists on pursuing this, Israel''s public kidnapping and assault of Joshua with a knife will be released to the public and submitted to a judge."


    Queenie was stunned. "They''re threatening to send Israel to prison?"


    Aurora nodded helplessly.


    This time, it would be very difficult for them to turn the tables. They couldn''t just abandon Israel. If they did, he would certainly lose his mind, sever ties with them, and maybe even turn against them. So, abandoning him wasn''t an option.


    Sellers had anticipated this. He asked, "Have you all decided how topensate Israel?"


    Aurora said, "My father, Jonathan, Coleman, and I will each give Israel one percent of our shares. As for the rest, he''ll have to bear the loss himself."


    The Williams family couldn''tpletely ignore Israel''s plight. But giving him back a full ten percent was absolutely out of the question. No matter how you looked at it it was Israel who failed to see through Ste and Joshua''s trap. He had to take the lion''s share of the me.


    Sellers asked, "Did Israel ept?"


    Aurora gave a faint smile. "Israel epted."


    ept, and he gets four percent of the shares. Refuse, and he gets nothing. Israel knew which choice to make. After all, when he first got the founder''s shares, he had no intention of sharing them with anyone else. The fact that the family was pooling their shares to help him was, in itself, a gesture of goodwill. As Israel himself had said, you can''t expect to reap all the benefits and have others pay for all your losses.


    Sellers then asked, "With twenty percent of the shares, won''t Ste be thergest shareholder in The Williams Group?"


    Aurora sighed softly. "Father still holds a portion of the original founder''s shares.


    He''s decided to dilute some of them and transfer them to Jonathan. That way, Ste won''t have unchecked power. Of course..."


    Aurora paused. "If Ste wants to be the majority shareholder, she could convert her founder''s shares intomon stock. That would still make her thergest shareholder in thepany However, doubt she''d be willing make that conversion so easily. After all, those founder''s shares also give her controlling stakes in several otherpanies."


    While they were discussing stock matters in the hospital room, Leonard had already


    found the room with the exact perspective from the painting.