Feel the Way You Feel, My Love Chapter 1023
According to Silas, after Sam’s passing, Catherine left J City and returned to her parents’ home.
Despite not being a member of the Thompson family, Shane had assigned one of his men to keep an eye on her.
Therefore, Silas knew she had left town.
“Mr. Shane, I did an inventory count on Sam’s assets. Please have a look at the report.” Silas handed a stack of papers to Shane.
He accepted them, and Natalie leaned in to take a curious peek with him.
She exclaimed at the laundry list of holdings, “That’s almost a few times more than Harrison’s wealth.”
Shane thumbed through the documents and explained, “When Grandpa left Thompson Group to my father, every capital asset, antiquity, jewelry, and cash was bequeathed to Sam. Converting everything to cash, they are worth a third of Thompson Group.”
Natalie sucked in a breath audibly. “Isn’t that thirty billion?”
“That’s right.” Shane nodded.
She tsked. “He wasn’t content with thirty billion, and he had to covet Thompson Group? The company may have a net worth of a few hundred billion, but he couldn’t liquidate more than ten billion. He got off easy, in my opinion.”
“Yes, but he wasn’t thinking like that. He wanted everything,” Shane said lightly, his eyes downcast.
Natalie’s gaze landed on the papers. “These assets don’t amount to thirty billion, though.”
“He squandered most of it.” A sardonic sneer flashed in Shane’s eyes. “Sam might have acquired a substantial amount of money, but it’s not equivalent to Thompson Group, which comes with power and status. Hence, he tried to establish a company superior to Thompson Group. The thing is, he wasn’t capable of achieving it and chose to invest all his assets. In the end, he lost most of it.”
Natalie snickered. “He did all that for nothing? He was incapable, yet he couldn’t swallow his disgruntlement. I don’t know if I should commend him or…”
She didn’t finish her sentence, but everyone knew what she meant.
Shane closed a file and reached for another one. “He probably finally realized he didn’t have what it takes to start a company on the same footing as Thompson Group. Otherwise, these remaining assets would have been gone as well.”
“How much are these worth in total now?” Shane pointed at the pile of documents and asked Silas who was standing aside.
Silas adjusted his glasses. “Approximately five billion.”
Natalie pursed her lips, musing, “He did have a flair for blowing his inheritance worth thirty billion down to only five billion.”
Shane was expressionless. The figure he had in his mind was in the ballpark of Silas’ answer.
Silas had only confirmed his suspicions.
“What are you going to do about this, Shane?” Natalie asked.
By logic, Sam was survived by his son, Sean, and the assets should go to him.
However, Sean wasn’t in the country now and held a grudge against Shane. Thus, Shane was debating if he should relinquish the inheritance to him.
Shane gave a cursory glance over the documents. “Place the cash, jewelry, and antiquities in the bank for safekeeping. Leave the properties and cars as-is. Transfer all the company shares into a shell account. Once we get our hands on Sean, we’ll decide what to do with it.”
Truthfully, what Sean did was vile but didn’t warrant death.
He didn’t have blood on his hands and would be sentenced to twenty years in prison at most. Shane wasn’t remotely interested in these holdings and was more than willing to hand them over to Sean once he was out.
If Sean took a life and were given the death penalty, Shane would set up a charity foundation and use the assets to help the needy.
