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interested in
selling.   But they sold.   Don’t ask me how or why, but they did.   And Tommy bought.   And he gave all of those shares, along with
his shares, to me.   I now own fifty-eight
percent of Trammel.   In every scenario, I
now own Trammel.”
    Jillian
felt as if she had been sucker punched.   The insult staggered her.   It felt
as if the slave was suddenly the plantation owner and was gloating about it!   Was Tommy out of his natural mind?   You don’t give the likes of her this kind of
authority!   She looked at that Grace
McKinsey with pure hatred in her eyes.  
    “If
you’re the majority owner now,” Jillian asked, contempt dripping from her fake,
ballooned lips, “then what does that make me?”
    “The minority
owner,” Grace didn’t hesitate to say.
    Jillian
again couldn’t believe it.   Why the
arrogance of her!  
    “It
also makes Grace,” Tommy pointed out, causing eyes to look over at him,
“Trammel’s new Chief Executive Officer.”
    Jillian
looked at Tommy, her hate now directed toward him.   “Are you out of your fucking mind?” she
asked, her pretense at dignity now completely gone.   “I’m the Chief Executive Officer!”
    “Not
anymore,” Grace said, with the eyes, as if watching a tennis match, now
watching her. “The majority determines the leadership.   Since I own the majority of the shares, I’m
not splitting my vote.   I have asked
Tommy to remain as our chairman for now, and I have appointed myself as CEO.”
    Jillian
couldn’t believe it.   She just couldn’t
believe it.   “Oh, really now?” she
asked.   “And what position, Madam CEO,
are you going to give me?   Tommy’s got
the chairmanship.   You’re supposedly the
CEO.   The only major position left is
Chief Financial Officer, and I don’t want that position.”
    “Good,
because you’re not getting it,” Grace said so matter-of-factly that it made
Jillian’s skin crawl.   “The Executive
Vice President position, as currently held by Cameron, is yours if you care to
have it.”   Tommy looked at Grace.   He hadn’t expected her to offer Jillian any
position.   “If you don’t want that
either, then I’ll find somebody else.”
    “But
Cameron’s the vice president,” Jillian said with a frown.   “My son is the VP.”
    “Not
anymore he’s not,” Grace said pointedly.   “He will not be collecting a paycheck and doing nothing for Trammel ever
again.”   Grace looked Jillian dead
on.   “That’s over,” she made clear.   “Trammel is no longer his piggy bank.”
    Although
every member of the board agreed wholeheartedly with Grace, they weren’t ready
to pick sides just yet.   They knew
Jillian.   They couldn’t imagine her going
down without a fight.
    Grace,
however, wasn’t going to continue arguing with her either.   She stood up.   “As you know, Tommy’s people were kind enough to conduct an extensive
audit of Trammel a few months back. I will be reviewing that audit in detail,
and as soon as I can see for myself the financial health of this company, I
will reconvene the board to discuss my recommendations.   Recommendations, by the way, that will be
implemented.”   Then Grace inwardly exhaled.   “Are there any questions?” she asked.
    Jillian
was floored.   She stood there as if she
was suspended in her own disbelief.   And
the other board members too, who knew now that they would keep their jobs only
at the pleasure of the new majority owner, looked to be in shock too.   They expected some sort of announcement at
this meeting, but they hadn’t expected this.   They were too stunned, and too afraid, to say a word to their new
leader.
    “I’ll
be in my office if you have any questions,” Grace said as she began grabbing
her briefcase and purse.   She was so
nervous that her hands were trying to shake furiously, but she managed to keep
them steady as she went.   “Have a nice
day,” she said to one and all, and then left the