Chapter 156

Chapter 156 It Was My Fault

“I remember.” Troy answered quietly.

The first time Imogen had been rumored to be a mistress, Troy hadn’t clarified it for her. However, she had been injured in a car accident and couldn’t see out of her eyes and hid the pregnancy from him, so that’s when he agreed to her one condition.

“Do you know what I was thinking at that time?” Imogen reminisced in a lost state of mind. “I was thinking that we would get divorced sooner or later, and I couldn’t hide my pregnancy, so I wanted you to give up the custody. I wanted the baby! That’s why I didn’t even use the condition when I wanted a divorce the most… but…”

Imogen sobbed and couldn’t say the last word.

She didn’t have another chance to use that condition!

Imogen’s offhanded words were like daggers stabbing deep into Troy’s heart. She was a clear reminder to him of everything he had ever done!

It turned out that she was already planning for her and the baby at that time.

But he was busy defending Sarah’s career and didn’t understand her aggravation.

Without waiting for Troy to speak, Imogen added, “Do you know what Sarah’s fans said when I was called a mistress? He said he cursed me for not being able to have kids for the rest of my life. Haha. Her curse took effect.”

“It was my fault. I shouldn’t have craved everything I had with you. The time Sarah burned. herself, when you broke with me rather than see her, and I was robbed and nearly lost my baby. That’s when God reminded me that I should give you up. It was my fault. I don’t learn from my mistakes, and I deserve to be cursed!”

Imogen was tearing up, laughing, and crying at the same time.

She looked insane.

Troy looked at her deeply with grief in his heart.

It turned out that she had even been robbed that time after he had left with his harsh words, but she never gave him a word about it.

He couldn’t imagine how helplessly she endured all this…

All that Imogen had gone through was because of him.

If he hadn’t listened to Charlene and let it be revealed that he and Sarah were once in a relationship, and let the media report on the rumors of them getting back together, Imogen wouldn’t have been abused as a mistress later on.

He seemed to have squashed the news for Imogen, but the curses were always there.

Imogen wouldn’t have gotten hurt so much if he hadn’t been hesitant and indulged Sarah too much!

Riley was right. What he owed Sarah shouldn’t be Imogen’s responsibility.

She didn’t owe Sarah anything.

She was the most innocent person.

But he was the worst victim.

“When I close my eyes now, my mind goes to a little baby crying and asking why I didn’t want him. I was not a good Mom. My willfulness and selfishness killed my child!” Imogen whimpered, and

her eyes blurred with fears.

“Imogen, it’s all my fault. Everything is my fault!” Hearing Imogen’s words of self–blame, Troy’s heart ached so much that he couldn’t breathe.

He wiped the teardrops from Imogen’s eyes with his hand. “I inquired about Gracehaven Church being able to transcend the dead. If you want, we can go and pray for our child to dispel the darkness and light the way to the afterlife. Consider it the only thing we can do for our child as parents.”

Imogen stopped her tears. She looked at him with teary eyes. She asked carefully after a while, “Will my child forgive me?”

“Yes. Our child will surely forgive you. You can also pray for your father, if you want.”

“When are we going?“Trogen wiped her tears.

“Let’s have dinner first. We’ll go as soon as you’ve gotten well.”

Imogen wiped the tears from her face and said with a grimace, “When we get back from praying, let’s go to Courthouse and get divorced.”

Troy paused for a moment as his heart strangled internally. “Okay. Let’s get divorced. Let’s get divorced.”

Meanwhile, the major shareholders of Marshall Group gathered in the top floor conference room.

Even though it was a shareholders‘ meeting, it was actually not much different from the last board meeting in terms of personnel.

All the shareholders are here, and they seem to be calm on the surface, but their hearts are already turbulent.

They were not concerned about the cause of Henry’s death but the distribution of the company’s shares after his death.

Marshall Group was different from a typical public company. It was a family business, which meant that the selection of the chairman of the board was a simple formality. The position of chairman would normally be taken by the person who owned the largest number of shares in the Marshall family.

The family business also meant that there was a majority of shares within the family, leaving only about thirty percent of the shares to the outside, including broken lots.

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the remaining seventy percent, ten percent was held by Aaron, ten percent by Emily, and five percent each by Troy and Leo.

The distribution of Henry’s forty percent was crucial in determining who would be the next chairman of the group.

The chairman was the real leader of the group, almost deciding the direction of the company’s development and the interests of the shareholders.

Moreover, since the replacement of the president and the death of Henry, the stock had fallen even more severely than before. Even though the person in charge of the speech came out and said that the replacement of the president would not affect the company’s strategic planning, it didn’t have much effect.

Therefore, they were counting on the selection of the chairman of the board to be finalized, as it could ease the emotions of the shareholders and stop the decline of the stock.

At this time, Emily would also participate in the shareholders‘ meeting by way of video conferencing.

As soon as the video was connected, Emily looked directly at Leo. She said contemptuously, “Leo, I’m really impressed with your skillful tactics. If it wasn’t for the company releasing the official email, I wouldn’t even know that the president has changed!”

Everyone knew that among the three nephews, Leo, Troy, and Nicolas, Emily liked Troy the most. Emily had one hundred percent support for Troy’s proposals in the past!

Leo smiled. “Emily, why do you say that? It’s all just the board’s decision.”

Ten minutes later, Layla appeared in the conference room along with Henry’s attorney.

After a few simple greetings, the shareholders were already impatient.

The attorney directly began to make the announcement. “I now proceed to announce the will of Mr. Henry Marshall, chairman of the board of directors. His will includes bank deposits, real estate, frontage and land, transportation, shares of Marshall Group and other business plants. Only the issue of the distribution of shares of Marshall Group will be published here.”

“The result of the distribution of the estate is as follows. For forty percent of the shares in the name of Henry Marshall, thirty percent to his wife, Mrs. Layla Marshall, and ten percent to his second grandson, Troy Marshall, and other property to be divided as otherwise provided herein. The will has been notarized in the office of a notary public and may be examined by those who are in doubt.”

When the attorney had finished, the shareholders were suddenly filled with confusion and talking to each other.

They could not understand why Henry Marshall had distributed the shares in this way!

In this way, the person who held the most shares in the company was Layla Marshall, someone who didn’t know how to run a company.

Even Aaron didn’t quite understand why Henry had distributed the shares that way.

He gave the largest share to Layla. Was he waiting for Layla to die to distribute it again as she wished?

Then why did he give Troy a separate ten percent?

Someone got it.

Emily immediately blurted it out. “Do you even need to ask that? Henry must be upset with someone. If Layla doesn’t know how to run the company, then who’s going to take the chairmanship?”

Layla said at this point, “Henry left me the most shares, just giving me money for the sake of the couple’s years of love. I don’t know anything about these things in the company, and I am not participating in this election for chairman of the board.”

Everyone looked at each other in disbelief.

There were indeed cases like this in other companies. After the elderly handed over all of their shares, their children and grandchildren were revealed to be power–hungry, and no one loved the elderly anymore.

Layla came from an ordinary background with little support. By holding the shares in her hand, she could at least ensure that her children and grandchildren would honor and love her before her death, whether they really meant it or not.

Chapter 156 It Was My Fault

Since Layla would not participate in the election for chairman of the board, the person with the most shares other than Layla would be Troy, who held fifteen percent of the shares.

In other words, Troy would be the next chairman of the Marshall Group!

Troy had exactly five percent more shares than Aaron and Emily. It was also unknown if this was a deliberate act by Henry Marshall.