Chapter 233 The Chairman is Isabella
After this unpleasant scene, Royce was getting impatient too. "What exactly do you mean? Are you buying these stones or not?"
"If it wasn't for Casey's sake, I wouldn't have brought out these stones at all! If you don't know quality when you see it, fine - if you don't buy them, someone else will!"
With that, Royce started to cover up the pile of rough stones again.
Casey quickly said, "We're buying! Don't worry, Royce, we'll buy your stones right now!"
Royce glanced in the direction Isabella had left and asked, "Then what did that woman mean just now, saying the company won't transfer money without her permission?"
Casey dismissed it, "Royce, don't listen to her. She doesn't know anything, and what she says doesn't count."
Royce looked at him, half-believing, "You can make the decision?"
"Of course." Casey smiled broadly, "I'm the one in charge at Celestial Jewels."
Hearing this, Royce finally relaxed and took out the order form. "Since you can make the decision, transfer the money and let's sign the order."
These rough stones were being purchased in the company's name, so naturally the payment would come from the company account, and payments were handled by the company's finance department.
"Alright, Royce, give me your bank account number and I'll send it to the company's finance department."
"Okay."
After receiving the bank account number from Royce, Casey immediately sent it to the company's finance department, then called them.
"Terrence, make the payment as soon as possible. We're waiting here."
"Okay, got it."
Finance manager Maeve Harrington hung up and immediately submitted a payment request in the company's financial system.
Payments at Celestial Jewels required leadership approval, with the chairman being the highest authority.
Previously, the chairman's approval at Celestial Jewels had always been done by Chase.
But this time, after Maeve submitted the approval, she noticed the line no longer read "Awaiting Chairman Chase's signature" but "Awaiting Chairman Isabella's signature."
Maeve was stunned.
What was going on?
How did Chairman Chase become Chairman Isabella?
After thinking for a moment, she went and knocked on the chairman's office door.
When Chase was chairman, he was rarely at the company, so the chairman's office had always been occupied only by the chairman's secretary, Lila Donovan.
"Lila, what's with the change in the chairman field in the company system? Who exactly is our company's chairman now?"
Hearing this, Lila clicked into the company's internal system with her mouse. Seeing that the chairman was Isabella, she immediately understood.
"Maeve, our chairman at Celestial Jewels is indeed Isabella now, no longer Chase."
"What?" Maeve was confused. "What happened?"
"Anyway, I heard that Hayden has completely handed over Celestial Jewels to Ms. Taylor to manage. I've been busy these past few days handling the procedures for changing the company's legal representative. I was planning to notify everyone after the change was complete," Lila said.
"So all company approvals now go directly to Chairman Isabella, right?"
"That's right. I'll give you Ms. Taylor's phone number. If you have any questions, just ask her directly."
"Okay."
Maeve left the chairman's office and dialed Isabella's number.
"Ms. Taylor, this is Maeve from finance. Casey just told me that during his trip to Veridian to purchase rough stones, he's confirmed the goods and needs to pay twenty million dollars to a rough stone company called Solmir Exchange. This payment requires your approval before I can process it, so I need you to log into the company system to review it."
"No need to look." Isabella said coolly, "I don't approve this payment."
Maeve was stunned but didn't dare ask anything, only saying, "Okay, I understand. I'll withdraw the approval request right away."
"Good."
Isabella didn't say anything more and hung up directly.
After withdrawing the approval request, Maeve called Casey and said, "Casey, the company can't make this payment. The request was rejected."
Casey's expression immediately changed. "Why?"
"I don't know. It's the leadership's decision. I'm just following instructions."
Hearing this, Casey was furious. "Is Isabella interfering? Let me tell you, don't listen to her! She doesn't know anything!"
Casey's sudden outburst startled Maeve.
She held the phone away from her ear. Although she didn't know what grudge existed between Casey and Isabella, she still suggested:
"Casey, if you need the company to pay this money, I suggest you have a good talk with Ms. Taylor. After all, if she doesn't agree, we can't make the payment."
With that, Maeve hung up directly.
Casey looked at his disconnected phone, his face ugly. "Isabella has some nerve, actually colluding with Maeve to refuse our payment!"
"What?" Alfonso was shocked. "Has she lost her mind?"
"I think she's doing this on purpose!" Casey wanted to strangle Isabella. "No wonder she insisted on coming to Veridian with us - she came to cause trouble, to stop us from buying the rough stones!"
How terrible!
"We must tell Chase about this!" Casey said through gritted teeth. "Chase will definitely be angry when he finds out!"
Casey immediately called Chase.
But after ringing for a long time, no one answered.
Casey tried several more times in a row, but still no answer. Casey had to give up, his face very ugly.
Watching from the side, Royce completely lost his patience. "Casey, what exactly is going on with you people? Didn't you say you could make the decision? Now you can't even handle your own company's finance department?! Are you playing games with me? Can you buy these stones or not?"
Casey quickly said, "Royce, please calm down. I will definitely resolve this."
"Enough! It's not like no one else will buy my stones! You people have absolutely no sincerity. This deal is off!"
Royce had the shop staff throw them out of Solmir Exchange directly.
Being thrown out like that, their faces all looked rather unpleasant.
What kind of situation was this?
Alfonso also started to hate Isabella.
If it wasn't for Isabella throwing a tantrum and colluding with Maeve to prevent finance from making the payment, they would have already bought these rough stones. Why would they have been thrown out?