She Left She Thrived She’s Worth Billions novel Chapter 820

Showered with Holden's lavish praise, Dominic scratched his cheek, playing the picture of humility.

"Grandfather, you flatter me. I'm just deeply grateful that you took me in. All I want is to help Gavin and do my part for the Lockridge family. It's my way of showing my filial respect to you."

"Good, good, good... You really are a good boy. But... what exactly are you planning to do with all that fertilizer? We can't just leave it rotting in a warehouse after spending so much money on it."

"Please don't worry, Grandfather. I've already mapped everything out. Even though our family has no direct use for it, we hold the monopoly. We can flip it and sell it at an even higher premium to other upstream pharmaceutical companies that desperately need it. We're cornering the market. I can't promise astronomical profits, but I guarantee we won't lose a single dime."

Seeing Dominic make such a confident, airtight promise, Holden nodded in satisfaction, completely at ease.

Dominic wasn't lying to Holden with this backup plan.

Since Melanie refused to bow to him, he would simply resell the overpriced fertilizer.

They might not make a massive profit, but they would break even, which would keep Holden happy.

The most crucial part of this entire chess match was that he had successfully bottlenecked Melanie and the Royce Group, sabotaging their partnership with Stellaris PharmaTech.

"By the way, I also heard... your ex-wife made a hundred-million-dollar bet with your current girlfriend?"

Dominic wasn't surprised that Holden brought it up.

After all, there were countless industry insiders and media outlets present at the Botanical & Pharmaceutical Trade Expo when the wager was made.

The news had been trending online for days; Holden was bound to have heard about it.

No one could resist the gossip of a hundred-million-dollar showdown.

"That is correct, but Melanie is guaranteed to lose."

"Oh? And what makes you so certain?" Holden asked, highly intrigued.

"Because Melanie is banking her entire strategy on finding a substitute for the Type-L fertilizer in the soil of an abandoned plantation. But the Core Bio-Strain in that dirt is notoriously difficult to isolate. For decades, no one has been able to extract it."

"I've consulted with top experts, and they all confirmed the same thing... The only person in the world who might possess the genius to extract that specific strain is the legendary pharmacologist known as 'Schrödinger's Pill'."

It wasn't pocket change.

Even if Gabriel Whitmore was the second son of the Whitmore family, he couldn't just casually throw away a hundred million on a whim.

The older generation of the Whitmore family was still very much alive and in control.

Besides, the true mastermind behind Stellaris PharmaTech wasn't Gabriel; it was his reclusive older brother.

Dominic sneered, a dark plan forming in his mind.

If Gabriel really was so entirely bewitched by Melanie that he willingly handed over a hundred million dollars, Dominic had a way to deal with that too.

If he wanted to play the hero and throw away his money...

Dominic would use the opportunity to utterly destroy both Gabriel's and Melanie's reputations for good.