Chapter 1077 Providing Evidence
Toby didn’t argue against Charles’ statement—deep down, he clearly believed what Charles had said. However, Charles’ words reminded Toby of something that he hadn’t paid much attention to in the past. Now that I hear what Charles said, it seems like a possibility. Toby shut his eyes as he tried his best to contain his anger. When he next opened his eyes, his gaze had turned much darker than before.
Everyone in the room knew that Toby wasn’t going to take the situation lightly. He simply concealed all of his emotions beneath his cold and empty gaze. “I got it. I’ll deal with this.” Toby let go of Sonia’s face as he responded to Charles.
“Well, don’t disappoint us,” Charles uttered with a shrug. Toby ignored the other man and was about to speak to Sonia when his phone rang again. Ever since he ended the call earlier, he had left his phone on Sonia’s desk. So, once it started ringing, everyone could see who the call was from. It was from Tom. This time, Toby showed no intention of ignoring the call. “What is it?” he asked as he placed the phone against his ear.
“President Fuller.” Tom’s voice came from the other end of the line. “Mr. Lore just called me a while ago and said he couldn’t get to you. But, he wanted to know your whereabouts and whether you were occupied.”
Toby’s face remained blank after hearing Tom’s words. Toby had clearly expected the Lore Family to contact Tom after they failed to contact him. “Well? How did you respond to him?” Toby asked as he narrowed his eyes. Through their call, Tom could tell from Toby’s voice that Toby wasn’t fond of the Lore Family. “I told him that I didn’t know where you were. I explained that I’m not the only assistant and that I don’t always know your whereabouts,” Tom answered hastily.
Toby nodded. “Go on.”
“I don’t think Mr. Lore believed what I said, but he no longer tried asking about you since he knew that he couldn’t get anything from me. Regardless, he indirectly asked me about your responses to the incident online and your views on it,” Tom added.
“Ignore him.” There wasn’t a hint of emotion on Toby’s face.
Tom pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose as he replied. “I know what you mean, President Fuller. So, I simply responded with a few vague sentences just to get him off the call. He eventually ended the call with a rather annoyed tone, so I believe that he’ll try to contact you again,” Tom explained.
“I got it.” Toby nodded. After that, he took a look at the woman who was sitting in front of him. “You don’t have to care about the Lore Family for now. I’ll deal with it in the future. But, for now, I need you to handle the ghostwriters and fake business accounts online. You’ll also need to deal with Titus and Connor,” he ordered.
“I’ve already sent someone to deal with Squirrel Media, and they should be in the midst of discussing some matters acquiring Squirrel Media. We managed to acquire their company this afternoon, but the workers in Squirrel Media… Except for that secretary that Sonia mentioned…” Tom replied.
“We’ll have to do a background check on all workers. I want all the people involved or interested in this matter, and all the individuals who had ever produced fake news, to be fired instantly.” Toby’s short statement had probably turned thousands of people jobless.
Tom nodded. “Yeah. I’ve already gotten someone to deal with the other media companies involved this time. As you said, we gave their rivals a promotion instead of them, so the internal team is a complete mess now. I bet the Internet will be filled with the news regarding the significant changes in the media company’s management team from tomorrow onward. Meanwhile, I’ve already collected the evidence for the business accounts and filed a court case. We can head to court to fool around with them for a while and get them to spit out the money they had earned illegally. I wanted to contact the cybersecurity department to deal with the ghostwriters, but I realized someone had already warned them before I did anything. The ghostwriting team has gone their separate ways now. Who do you think was the one who warned them, President Fuller?” Tom eyed his boss puzzledly.
Toby narrowed his eyes as his expression turned grim. “Zane. He’s the only one who can do it.”
Sonia was shocked to hear this. Zane? Why are we talking about him all of a sudden? Meanwhile, on the other end of the call, Tom smacked his forehead as realization spread across his face. “Ah, I forgot about Mr. Coleman. He left for the village nearly two months ago, yet he’s still keeping up with everything online. He’s truly one of the trendier ones.”
Toby frowned immediately. “Since you look up to him so much, should I hint to him that you’d like to go over? Why don’t you work for him instead?” Toby suggested.
Tom’s expression fell as he immediately apologized. “D-Don’t do that, President Fuller. I made a mistake. I shouldn’t have said that.” This was Tom’s fault—he completely forgot about how Zane and Toby were love rivals. Oops. I praised President Fuller’s enemy. No wonder he’s mad!
Toby scoffed. “Alright. The country’s investigation team is looking into Triforce Enterprise. Even though Titus managed to get rid of a lot of the evidence, I’m sure there are still some clues and marks left behind. It all depends on whether we manage to find it. So, what I need you to do now is to tell the investigation team about the quarry that had been under Triforce Enterprise five years ago. He concealed the truth about the collapse of the mine and didn’t reveal the exact number of people who died. This will be my way of getting back at him this time.”
Toby turned to Sonia after finishing his words. “Is that okay?” Sonia had always wanted to ruin the Gray Family and Triforce Enterprise on her own—that was why she didn’t want Toby to do anything. Yet, now that he wanted to target Titus, he felt he had to ask for her opinion first. Sonia nodded when she saw the hopeful look in his eyes. “Yeah.”
Titus had been messing around too much recently, so it was about time they got back at him. Of course, just revealing the news itself wouldn’t completely destroy the Gray Family and Titus, but it would cause some harm to their reputation and make it easier for Sonia and Toby to attack them in the future.
The space between Toby’s brows was no longer wrinkled after he saw that Sonia had agreed to his idea. “When you’re providing information to the investigation team, try not to reveal your identity. It’d be best if the team had just happened to hear the news from some random person,” Toby said into the phone.
“I got it,” Tom replied. Toby pressed his lips together as he continued. “And for Connor… He likes snatching things from others, right? So let’s give him a taste of his own medicine. Let’s see how he likes it when others snatch his things,” he said viciously.
“Alright.” The call ended after that, and Toby massaged his temples as he lowered his phone. Sonia could tell that the man was rather tired, so she made him a cup of coffee. “By the way, you mentioned Zane’s name earlier. What was that about?”
“It’s nothing. It was just a passing mention. Don’t worry about it,” Toby said as he lifted his coffee cup to his lips and gave Sonia a warm smile. Unfortunately, his smile didn’t reach his eyes. I will not tell her that Zane’s also helping with this. I’d be making my love rival seem like a good person, right? Sonia didn’t ask much about it since Toby made no further comments. She figured that it was probably some minor thing, so she didn’t see the need to ask anymore. She knew how envious Toby could sometimes get, anyway. The more I ask, the more I’d make him jealous, right?
Charles was the only one who sat around and stared at them. When he looked at Toby, he felt like he could roll his eyes all the way back. Doesn’t Sonia know that this guy is doing all of this intentionally? Zane clearly did something for Sonia, and Toby’s undoubtedly hiding this for his own benefit. We’re all men, so we all know what it’s like, right?
Even though Charles didn’t think highly of Toby, it never crossed his mind to expose Toby, either. After all, Charles knew how Zane felt toward Sonia, and Charles, too, didn’t want to make his love rival look like a good person.
