Echoes of Titanic by Mindy Starns Clark

Author:Mindy Starns Clark
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780736942430
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWENTY-SEVEN

Walter looked at Kelsey, a frown creasing his brow.

“Wait a minute. You knew Gloria as well as I did. Hidden resentments or not, these are very serious charges. Do you honestly think she was the kind of person who could do something like that?”

“Before this week? No. After all that’s happened now? Yes. Needless to say, I’ve come a long way in a short time.”

He put down his mug and leaned forward to speak in a whisper. “As an employee and a significant stockholder, for her to have acted to facilitate the takeover in this way wouldn’t just be unethical, it would also probably be illegal. Hidden resentments or not, do you really think Gloria Poole would have gone outside of the law?”

Kelsey felt a surge of guilt as soon as he asked the question. In truth, she could not. But what other explanation was there for what she’d done?

“Maybe that’s why she killed herself,” Kelsey replied. “Maybe she did it, but then her remorse was so great that she ended up taking her own life because of it. Why else would she send her suicide note to me rather than to her husband? She asked me to forgive her for what she’d done. Her crimes were primarily against me.” Blinking away tears, Kelsey met Walter’s eyes, a new thought just coming to her.

“I bet I know what the final nail in this coffin was, so the speak. The thing that tipped her over the edge.”

“What’s that?” Walter asked.

Kelsey’s mind raced. “All the promoting of ‘Kelsey Tate’—the Quarter Club and the Forbes honor and all of that. What do you want to bet she saw the writing on the wall and realized that five years from now when you retire, I would be the one to hop right over her and land in the spot of CEO myself. Everyone knows my father has always intended for me to run the company eventually. I thought I’d be much older before that happened, but maybe she saw me becoming more successful, more well known, and she panicked, realizing that once again the top spot was going to open up and it would be given to someone else instead of to her.”

He nodded, understanding her point. “That makes a lot of sense. I just hope that in five years there will be a company left for you to run.”

Kelsey leaned forward, studying Walter’s face. “What are we going to do to fight this takeover?”

“There’s not a lot we can do at this point. We’ve turned down their offer, so technically it’s now in the hands of the stockholders. I’ve been contacting all of the ones I know personally and presenting our case, but it’s difficult.”

Kelsey puffed out a breath. “I need to speak to Pamela myself.”

“I don’t know what good it would do. To be honest, I’m fairly resigned to things at this point. Unless we can come up with some big bucks to save ourselves, I’m afraid the cause is lost.”

She thought for a moment.

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