Chapter 44: Daddy Is A Badass Businessman.

In the afternoon, Leo drove the car out of the house to pick up Lily from the school. He carefully observed if his daughter was feeling low or anything of that nature. However, when she told him that she was fine and her energy seemed normal, Leo drove themselves back home.

The first thing Lily did after entering the house was to wash her hands and dash over to the little grey kitten, Momo, who was sleeping on the dining table. Lily petted the kitten lightly and said lightly, "Momo, today Lily made a collar for you in the class."

She then dashed back to her room, then back to the kitten with a small pink collar in her hand. Leo was surprised and asked, "Baby, where did you get this collar?"

Lily smiled brightly and said, "I made it in the class. Miss Verse taught me."

Leo nodded and looking at the cute collar he patted Lily’s head and said, "Good job."

Then he served her with food, and Lily took a small nap afterwards. In the evening, Snow returned home, Leo greeted her with a hug. Since it was the third day of her periods she did not have much pain and her mood had stabilized.

Leo made her a cup of green tea, and served it with some cookies. Lily woke up and they sat down for a piano lesson and stream session. Leo did not rush her to teach new things, he explained, "Well, Lily fell sick and missed practice for a couple of days, now she is fine, so we will start with a revision of the past lessons."

Lily nodded and then they began with the lesson. Snow leaned back on the couch and enjoyed the light music with hushed voices of Leo guiding Lily and the stream viewers.

One hour later, the streaming session came to an end, and Lily got up the stool to deal with her homework and Leo entered the kitchen to brush up some food for the people. With dinner settled, the family was about to retire when Leo’s phone rang.

He raised his brow and then he picked up the call. The person on the other hand was Marco, "Hello, meet me at the usual spot, I have some good stuff."

Leo agreed and told him that he would be coming over in half an hour. He picked up a black hoodie from his wardrobe and put it on. Snow saw this and asked, "Anything serious?"

Leo shook his head and replied, "Going to meet a PI, had them look into the recent lives of the Cardinals"

Snow nodded and said, "Be careful, I will wait for you."


Leo nodded and was picking up the keys of his car, when Snow said, "Take the sedan, it’s black and will be hard to track."

The young man raised his head and asked, "Miss Marlins, where did you get this knowledge?"

Snow smiled and said, "Excuse me, Sir. It’s Second Miss Marlins."

Leo chuckled and then understood that she must have experienced this in her life with her family. After kissing her, he left the house in the black sedan. Lily watched the scene and asked, "Ma, you said that Baba was a businessman before I was born, is he going off for business at this hour?"

Snow nodded and said, "Baby, your Baba was not just a businessman."

Lily tilted her head and asked, "What do you mean?"

Snow replied with a smile, "He was a Badass Businessman."

Lily was stunned before she chuckled while repeating the phase.

However, unlike the last couple of times, Leo did not enter the place first, he walked around the shop to see if there was someone monitoring the place. He had been learning such things in the virtual realm and slowly getting a hang of them. After concluding that the coast was clear, the young man entered the shop and sat across Marco, who was gulping down a morsel of noodles.

The detective raised his head and pushed over a brown envelope. He said, "There is some good evidence in here, I hope you can achieve what you are seeking."

Leo nodded, and used his phone to directly transfer the money that they agreed upon, and he said, "If I need your services in the future, I will call you. However, I hope that you can keep your mouth shut about me."

Marco nodded and replied with a serious expression, "I know. Have a good night."

Leo picked up the envelope and left the restaurant. He did not get in his car directly but circled the place to discover any tails on him. When he found nothing, he got in his car and drove away. Leo did not open the envelope right away, but drove to the Monarch Tower and went inside with the envelope.

The office was not yet completely empty, there were still the tech people working in. Leo came here because he needed an extra pair of eyes to analyse the material in his hands.

He came to the top floor, and as expected, he found Percie Hibiscal’s office lit. The secretary outside saw him and stood up in greeting. Leo waved at her to sit down and knocked on the door.

Percie replied, "Come in."

She was busy going through some documents so she did not know who came in. Leo looked around and asked, "Are you dealing with something important?"

His voice startled Percie, and she raised her head in a shock. After a moment, she let out a sigh and asked, "President, what is going on? Did you need something?"

Leo nodded and beckoned her over to the couch and the table as he took out the material and spread it over the place. There were some pictures and some documents. Leo glanced at the pictures and smirked, as he said, "Miss Hibiscal, you are missing out on a treat here."

Percie finally woke up from the daze and walked over to him, and when she glanced at the pictures, she exclaimed, "Where did you get these, Sir?"

Leo replied calmly, "That is not the right thing to say at the moment, is it Miss CEO."

Percie took a deep breath, and she said, "I know, Sir."

Leo passed him a document and said, "The evidence of some business run by Echo Cardinal, and the pictures here link them all to the shady things he has been doing. The designer clothing industry is a front to sweatshops and forged luxury products. From the looks of it, all these operations are sophisticated, and large.

Without internal support it is not possible for them to run this so efficiently and walk out in daylight."

Percie was shocked, the more she looked into these things the more she feared Leo’s efficiency. Let alone her, even Leo was shocked about how Marco got all these in four days. He said, "Get your sources to confirm these things. If it is all concrete solid, dump it to the gates of all the media channels. Expose Echo Cardinal, and I will ask the Lockey Law Firm to enter public litigation appeals to the courts about all these things."

Percie nodded and said, "I will get someone to make multiple copies of these."

Leo took out his phone and called Keval Nyay, the call was connected quickly and the latter asked, "Hello, Mister Cardinal, what can I do for you?"

He said, "Firstly, I want Fragrance to be assigned as my exclusive attorney, and she will be posted in the Butterfly Tech office. The company will handle her salary, as for your firm. I am sending some material to you, if you can use it properly, then the firm will rise above the rest, Mister Nyay."

Keval was confused, and said, "As you say, Sir. I will be here to receive the things. As for Fragrance, I will inform the Human Resource department to handle the issue. We will give her quarter of her previous salary. She is a talented lawyer and I don’t wish for her to play from some other firm and screw me up."

Leo chuckled and agreed with him before the call was disconnected. Percie instructed her secretary to handle the copying task and then she asked, "Sir, what should we do about the OEM companies that are holding back our parts."

The young man turned to look outside the big windows and said, "Sometime you have to enter the gray area to get things done. I think it is about time we also take that step."

Percie Hibiscal was surprised, and then she heard Leo say, "Arrange a meeting with the worker union heads and deputies from these firms. Give them some money to come over."

The lady was quick witted and she finally understood what Leo meant by going to the gray area. Initially she thought he would do something cruel like murder or arson, but now when she realized that he intended to dig a hole in the walls of the companies, she was relieved.

Percie Hibiscal was a talented manager, but this was the first time she has faced trouble from the suppliers and although she had people who had been trying to negotiate with the owners of these companies, she understood that it was not going to be easy.

As she was admiring Leo’s thought, he said, "Send your people out to deal with the raw material suppliers, enter long term contracts and if they breach the contracts, have them pay ten times of the money, and vice versa. It may seem high for them, but they will not refuse long term orders. Despite the final product, the raw material in these tech devices is often the same. Do you understand what I mean?"

Percie nodded and replied, "This is a way to negate the future possibility of price hikes and at the same time, delay in supply. However, what would you gain from meeting the workers?"

Leo smiled and replied, "You will know what will happen, Miss Hibiscal, just believe me."

The war had begun and Leo intended to finish it in one fell swoop.