Silas knew that a more important discussion awaited them, and he followed Shane upstairs in a serious mood.
They ended up in Shane’s study.
Shane passed the evidence he had collected last night to Silas. “Send this to the police station. It’s time to get Sam arrested.”
“Yes, sir.” Silas took the evidence and placed it in his briefcase.
He spied an unusual document peeking out from the stack of evidence.
“What’s this?” Pulling the document out, Silas continued, “Mr. Shane, this isn’t evidence concerning Sam’s crime.”
“Hmm?” Frowning, Shane reached for the paper in his assistant’s hand. It turned out to be a share transfer agreement, in which his mother outlined her wishes to transfer shares to Sean.
He narrowed his eyes and asked, “Where did you see this?”
“It was in the car accident report,” Silas replied.
Shane’s lips tightened into a thin line.
He had skimmed through the report last night. I must’ve missed the share transfer agreement.
“The shares specified on the agreement belong to Wells Properties,” Silas exclaimed in surprise as he turned to gauge Shane’s reaction, who seemed to be deep in thought.
Shane had seen the name of the company at the same time as Silas.
Wells Properties was gifted by his grandfather to his mother when she married into the Thompson family. It was not a large real estate company back then.
Though it sounded like a real estate company, Wells Properties was, in fact, a renovation company.
Since it was under his mother’s name, it was never associated with Thompson Group, whose primary trade was luxury goods. His mother had managed Wells Properties alone until her death. From then on, the company was in the hands of a new manager, and Shane only dropped in from time to time to check on the company’s situation.
Thus, no one knew that Wells Properties belonged to the Thompson family.
It only left the family after his mother transferred the company’s ownership to someone else.
“Mr. Shane, it’s no wonder that manager said that Wells Properties didn’t belong to you when you tried to take over the reins. Your mother transferred fifty percent of the shares to someone else. We never would’ve expected the recipient to be Sean.” Silas was utterly shocked.
Shane remained silent, though he was stunned at the revelation as well.
He knew his mother’s signature was genuine.
She had an odd and inimitable writing habit of adding an upward stroke to the last letter of every sentence.
The confidence of the pen strokes convinced Shane that his mother had not signed this document against her will.
In other words, his mother’s intentions to transfer Wells Properties’ ownership to Sean were genuine.
Why would she do this?
Shane was perplexed, so was Silas.
Silas looked at the signature lines and commented, “Your mother is the only one who’s signed this document. Without Sean’s signature, he can’t officially own these shares.”
“No one knows about this, not even that manager. Everyone believes that the shares are already in the new chairman’s hands,” Shane said.
Adjusting his glasses, Silas replied, “The public’s been curious about the company’s new chairman and his seemingly low profile. Since Sean hasn’t gotten his hands on the shares, he can’t publicly claim ownership of the company. There’s a good chance he doesn’t even know that he’s the new chairman of Wells Properties.”
“No, he definitely knows.” Shane narrowed his eyes in contemplation.
“He knows?”
“That’s right.” Shane added, “He’s been searching high and low for the will, which we assumed was because he wanted to destroy evidence of Sam’s crimes. It turns out he hates Sam as well, and he would never help that b*stard escape. After all, threatening Sean with Sam didn’t get him to show his face.”
“Are you saying that Sean’s been after the will all this while because he wants to get his hands on the Wells Properties’ shares?” Silas widened his eyes in understanding.
“I can’t think of any other reason. He probably knew ages ago that the share transfer agreement was in grandpa’s hands, and that it would eventually end up in the will.”
