The Traps of Black Swan

Chapter 573 - One Week

The two news stories were spreading like wildfire. A positive one was for Skylar and Rivas Industries, due to Aarvi and Aaron. The negative one for Leon, who was being criticized ruthlessly.

Harmon Industries PR department was trying to suppress Leon's news but there were innumerable reposting of the news hence they were helpless. Whereas Skylar and Rivas Industries monitored the news so that things don't go out of hand while they cleared any news about Evans connecting with Aarvi Evans.

Undoubtedly people were saying Aarvi purposefully put on a drama at Coasta in the morning to get positive views on her. The netizens in favor of Aarvi were high using her dialogue, 'Then why didn't you have the guts to do it?' and a video of the newborn baby's mother and father speaking for Aarvi, sending their gratification helped to die down the negative impact.

Similarly, the small issues and negative news against the Rivas or Skylar were meticulously buried. However, it would take a long time and a clear investigation report for Rivas Industries to have clean hands from the golden oil and gas subsidiary due to the deaths involved.

Aarvi's team rested as they didn't have to be mingled with company stuff. Jaxon, Elder Harmon, Shea, and the Rivas family went to the Rivas mansion when Aaron took Aarvi to Skyarc. He watched her play and bathe Laze, then she took bath before he breathed in relief when Aarvi fell asleep with Laze curled against her.

Laze went back to its bed, glaring at Aaron. He felt like Laze was silently commanding him that 'I put mom to sleep. You better take care of mom.'

Amused by his thought, Aaron removed fur on the bed using a pet hair removal brush without disturbing Aarvi's sleep. 

Even though Laze was short-haired and didn't shed much hair, he least wanted it to affect her health. It was one in the midnight when he laid back on the bed to catch on some sleep as they were leaving early in the morning back to City Coasta.

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In the morning,

Everyone was expecting Harmon Industries to lose terribly in the market. Leon was also prepared to see the losses. But the market left everyone dumbfounded.

The business analysts were mind blown. The three main graphs and commentary were going on about Rivas, Skylar, and Harmon in the business news channel. To everyone's expectation, Skylar's stock price was shooting up, Rivas had stopped falling and started to enter the profit zone. The most anticipated fall of Harmon didn't happen hence the discussions were going as they guessed the coming projects and the success rate of Harmon.

Doing too good doesn't let you rest. Dax was overwhelmed with the business proposals, calls, emails, attending on behalf of Aarvi. When he had to check the filtered information, the most exhausted ones were his secretaries and the security who were dumping the flowers and unwrapping the gifts to decide if they should be thrown away, returned, or donated. Neither Aarvi, not Dax wanted any of it.

By the peak time, sleep-deprived Leon, an amazing businessman, didn't take long to realize somebody was playing with the Harmon stock prices. Looking at it in any way, he had expected loss to be around hundreds of millions in a day.

Leon started ordering his IT team and his men to stop the market manipulation as it would do him no good. However, finding professional manipulators was never an easy task. 

Dylan handled most of the work and the shareholders from barging into the office. They were demanding an emergency board meeting, obviously to question Leon's authority.

However, seeing the market still on the rise, they cooled down without selling their shares at a low price assuming Leon had everything under control. How foolish of them to think that.

Leon had no time to worry about Aarvi who was busy with office work, sitting in a pet cafe, while her lazy Laze, took its time before getting active and friendly playing with all the cats and the customers who were playing with it. It often ran up to her, rubbing its body on her leg and run back to the cats.

Aarvi was surprised when the cafe customers were asking her about Laze due to Laze's high alertness and intelligence. Her Laze was also getting famous among cat lovers.

Well, Aarvi felt the need to bring a buddy to Laze. She wanted to build a cat house and bring a few cats but Aaron was conscious about her health. She didn't want to worry him. So she settled with one cat buddy for her Laze, then she wouldn't have to worry about Laze being alone if she has to leave somewhere for a few days.

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In the afternoon, after lunch, Aarvi sat for a video conference with Jaxon.

Jaxon complained seeing Aaron and Aarvi in different windows, "I think now I understand why old people look for auspicious time and date for wedding and marriage. I pity you guys." Despite being in the same city, they were still far apart.

Aaron and Aarvi knew Jaxon was pointing at their honeymoon period. Well, having a rival as strong as Leon, they need to sacrifice something for some time. 

Aaron lifted his head from the file and glanced at the duo, "Come to the point Jaxon. I have a meeting."

Aarvi let out a faint chuckle looking at wordless Jaxon. Sighing loudly to reach Aaron's ear, Jaxon came to the point while his fingers danced on the keyboard of his laptop that was next to the mobile, "Aarvi, I am sending you a confidential email. I know you want to handle Leon Harmon yourself, think of this as my little gift for your marriage."

Aarvi opened her laptop to check the document. Aaron and Jaxon had their eyes on Aarvi in case she was displeased by his intervention.

Looking at her face turned bone-chilling calm while reading the mail, Jaxon looked at Aaron for help. The latter had no idea about it so he let Jaxon handle the little sister.

Even though Jaxon admires her talent, he wasn't personally close to Aarvi but Aaron. His parents were looking forward to meeting Aarvi so he didn't want to ruin anything.

He tried to explain to Aarvi, "I know... I know you want to handle Leon Harmon in your way. Aaron had already told me that. Since there is only one week left according to your plan, I wanted to help you gather some information. I am not looking down on you, it's just Evans has a wide network… It's alright if you don't want to use it… I…"

Aarvi was swift with numerous pages while she only focused on the important data that was needed for her. She wasn't least surprised that Jaxon Evans was able to gather the highly crucial information in just a night. She always knew behind the lively personality and the handsome face, he was a tough man.

When she looked up to the mobile screen, Aarvi bluntly revealed, "Aaron gave me the information of illegal export and import of Leon yesterday night," She didn't have such a strong network to reach international joints to get the information but Aaron had.

Jaxon: "..."

Aaron hid his smirk and lowered his head to check the file when he confirmed Aarvi wasn't upset or angry. Aaron had learned about using the network, gathering information from Jaxon when he was in Country S. He hadn't thought it would come in handy even though he wasn't as fast as Evans.

Aarvi continued, "But I must say, this is very detailed and precise."

Whereas what Jaxon cared about was, "You- aren't you angry?"

Aarvi finally revealed her expression and chuckled seeing him concerned about her, "Nope." She paused before a lopsided smile appeared on her face, "I have something for you."

Jaxon's ears perked up, Aaron smirked accurately knowing what his sly wife was up to.