After his long lunch with Lila Carpenter; Lance stumbles back into the main newsroom of The Moon Lake Gazette. Trying to maintain a sense of professionalism; Lance struggles to walk straight. The intense passion the two weres enjoyed showed as he tried his best not let his thighs rubbed raw from the earlier passion each other. Getting to his office and chair; Lance sighs as a smile forms on his face; His secretary entering to hand him his messages while he was out, just stares at the editor-in-chief.
“It was a long but enjoyable lunch,” was all Lance said.
She just nods and walks back to her desk leaving Lance to respond to a few of the missed calls. Minutes later his business reporter come in and gets a huge whiff of a were-tigress all over Lance Knight.
“The advantages of being the boss I guess,” he chuckles; “who is she.”
Lance just grins; refusing to answer he looks at his business reporter. “What have you found out about who was engineering the takeover of my brother’s company?”
“Jack Crawford is behind the whole event,” he answers; “my contacts at the New York Stock Exchange confirmed it all.”
“I’m sure my brother would like to read that in the paper,” Lance looking his messages; “anything else?”
“Crawford managed to get some of the voting shares,” the business reporter answers; “apparently some of the former execs that Benton kicked out, tried to contact him to sell their stock back to him. Since he didn’t respond, they took that as a clear indication that Benton wasn’t exercising his first right of refusal clause.”
“Okay,” Lance thinking; “get it all typed up and ready for tomorrows edition. And make sure-“
“Fair and neutral,” the business reporter finishes. Before leaving he looks at Lance, “your lady friend. The one whose scent I can smell all over you. Is she the one?”
Lances grins; “it’s looking that way.” Lance looking at the reporter, “Now get to your article.”
“Oh one more thing,” the reporter pulling out some documents and handing them to Lance; “what do you know of the Wáng Technological Consortium?”
“That it’s a company in china,” Lance looking at the papers; “what of it?”
“They have a large number of voting shares of Knight Industry,” the reporter comments; “the interesting thing is, up and till two weeks ago, Far Houjin and his grandson Kai Hǔ Wáng where last seen in Shanghai. Afterwards they disappeared. No one has seen them.”
“How does this have any bearing on the Jack and Benton story?”
“If Jack Crawford got those shares,” the reporter doing the math; “he could in theory have enough leverage to kick your brother out.”
“Run it as a side story,” Lance thinking; “Two of china’s prominent business men vanish, how does this effect the global economy as a whole. Or something along those lines; do the necessary research before submitting the article.”
The business reporter leaves; leaving Lance to look at one of the articles from a Chinese paper translated into English detailing Far and Kai’s absence. Members of the company stating the two are on some spiritual retreat but maintaining regular contact. Lance deciding to send a text to his brother
‘Aware of Jack Crawford’s business dealings. An article in the gazette will appear in tomorrow’s edition. Care to talk about Far Houjin and Kai Hǔ Wáng disappearance from the Wáng Technological Consortium?’
Lance sends the message and goes back to responding to the messages and emails regarding tomorrow’s edition.
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Back in Seattle; Jack Crawford was in his bed comforting a sleeping Were-panthress. Earlier in the day, Jacks driver pick up Kenya Adaeze from her disastrous attempt to talk to Nate Anderson. Both in their were-panther fursonas after a wild moment of passion; Jack was smiling as he just received an email pertaining to his successful acquisition on Knight Industry voting stock. While it was only from a few of the former execs; Jack did feel a sense of victory.
“Now if only I had a means to contact those who run the Wáng Technological Consortium directly,” Jack mutters to himself.
Putting down his smartphone; Jack goes back to spooning with Kenya; his feline tail twitching as he wraps his paws around her abdomen, causing her to gently stir and purr ever so softly.