Chapter 155: What Might Be
The fall of Olaf Group was swift and devastating. In fact, if Derek had not been there to witness it himself, he would not have believed it. The whole thing’d had a snowball effect.
First, there had come the news of all the deaths that had occurred during the CEO of Olaf Group’s party.
And then after that bombshell, there had come the discovery that some of the attendees at the party had been underage. And not only had they been underage, they had been taking part in adult activities, which was bad enough. But the final nail in the coffin had come when a recording clearly showing the CEO of Olaf Group specifically ordering that there be children at his adult-only party, as per request of one of the attendees had been leaked.
The whole thing had just fallen apart so quick that there was no chance of recovery whatsoever. Even the clients that had been willing to stand the heat of being associated with a company whose CEO had blood on his hands, had not been able to take the additional charges. In just a matter of days, Olaf Group had gone from being a competitor of Haven Group’s to a fossil. Something now spoken of in the past tense. In fact, a fossil was a kind word for what Olaf Group had become.
They were nothing now, and all that it had taken to bring them to that state. Was putting a spoiled rich kid who had never known a day’s work in his life at the helm. Savanté Olaf had literally destroyed his family’s legacy in just a few hours. Over a hundred years of hard work obliterated. It was sad to see, but even though Derek felt bad for them-not for Savanté, but for his predecessors who had worked hard to build Olaf. And for the people who knew nothing about what was going on, the people who had depended on Olaf group for their income. That was who he felt bad for. But even so, he had to do what was best for Haven.
Thanks to Savanté’s awful leadership, and lack of morals, Olaf Group had fallen. But while others were rejoicing, Derek was not. Sure, like any CEO worth his salt, he was leading the charge in winning over as many of Savanté’s former clients as possible. But he was not finding it as funny as the other CEOs were.
While the other CEOs were taking obvious pleasure in the fall of Olaf, Derek was more reserved, because for him he was not just seeing the fall of another company, he was seeing what had the possibility of coming to be at Haven Group.
His uncle and Savanté Olaf had similar personalities, and Derek was under no illusions that had there been a mistake in the past, and his uncle been allowed to take charge of Haven Group, they would have long been turned to dust, bled dry by his uncle’s various scandals.
It was a scary thing to think about.