More importantly, without Zayn's approval, she would never be an official partner in the project.
From Carla's perspective, she felt that Zayn was raising such an unreasonable request at this point to make her quit.
"Fine, I accept the condition." Carla glared at him coldly. "I'll be back in Erihal tomorrow to get it done."
"Good." Zayn pursed his lips into a sly smile. "I hope to receive good news from you!"
With that, he got to his feet and began walking off, saying, "We shall sign the papers for our business partnership once you get the authorization documents from the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Erihal."
As Carla watched him leave the place, she could not help but clench her teeth in annoyance. The cunning businessman she had just conversed with was nothing like the gentle, affectionate man from the night before.
He can't be the same person as Gigolo! That's simply not possible!
"Carla, are you mad?" Lucas carefully tried to pacify her. "I prepared a banquet tonight for Mr. Lorenzo and Mr. Rogana. Will you join us?"
"Of course. I won't get distressed just because of something this small." Carla smirked.
"That's good to hear. Alright, I'll be going off to do some horse-riding with them now…" Lucas heaved a sigh of relief.
"Okay, I'll be going to the South Sea. I'll see you tonight." Carla got up and strode off.
…
Meanwhile, in Zayn's car, Benard asked, "Mr. Giblo, are you sending Ms. Lierger away on purpose?"
After all the years he had spent working for Zayn, Benard knew his employer well enough to confidently say that he always drew a line between work and personal affairs, and he would not sabotage Carla with a request like that.
If he really felt that it was unfair for Carla to hold so many shares, he could have negotiated with her to reduce the number of shares she held or even asked her to invest more money in the project.
His seemingly unreasonable request for Carla to get support from the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Erihal was more likely a tactic to get her to leave Aymo City for the short term.
"I guess you saw through my plans, huh?"
Zayn was reading some documents that Jamal had sent him. It seemed like some issues had arisen yet again regarding the launch of the latest products.
"There are thirteen more days till the opening day of the territorial waters of the South Sea. Mr. Giblo probably won't return to M Nation anytime soon. Are you sending Ms. Lierger away for the time being so that you can deal with Mr. Giblo first and prevent the two from meeting each other?" Benard asked.
"Yeah." Zayn nodded. "In the past few days, there have been multiple instances where the two of them almost met each other in person. If they do, all hell will break loose, and I'm not taking any chances!"
"That's true." As Benard recalled those stressful times, he felt a chill run down his spine.
"When Carla goes to Erihal, I'll take care of the matters regarding Jombo and pay a visit to Phoenix City." Zayn had it all planned out. "I need you to check on what happened to Dr. Feroma for me."
"Understood."
Two years ago, when Carla had gone missing, Hapilia and Sam desperately wanted to bring Dr. Feroma back to Phoenix City despite the fact that he had not even woken up from his coma back then.
Zayn did not force them to stay and simply gave them some money before they left.
He knew that they had lost all their trust in him after Carla's disappearance. Just like Diane, the two of them even began suspecting him for plotting the deaths of Carla and Mrs. Borah for the sake of keeping her children.
As he had expected, when Hapilia and Sam left Aymo City, they immediately cut off all connections with the Giblo family.
Diane had also left with her mother and never returned.
When he saw for himself how horrendous Carla's relapses were the night before, he was extremely shocked. In his head, he swore to himself that he would not let her suffer any longer from her illness, nor would he let her shun him for what he had done.
He needed to find Dr. Feroma as soon as possible so that the poison lingering in her body could be removed.
Hapilia and Sam would never help him with that because of the huge misunderstanding between them and the incidents in the past that had severely wounded Dr. Feroma. As such, he decided that he had to take care of the matter personally to ensure that everything would unfold as planned.
The only catch about it was that in his absence, Jombo might encounter Carla. In order to prevent that, he had to convince Carla to leave Aymo City. At the same time, he needed to get Jombo to return to M Nation as quickly as possible.
That way, he would be able to focus on the urgent matters at hand.
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