Chapter 337 - You are selling me for your business (5)

20 April, Tang Family Home City K

Totally annoyed, Joan snapped "Your property father? The only reason that we still have the family home is because of me. I sold everything I could to ensure that the bank would not call in its loans, including over the house as I did not want mother and my sisters left out in the cold."

Joan observed her father raise his hand, ready to slap her so she said "You better watch it. You need my help…"

"You help? Ha! Women are only good for one thing, s*x. They suck up money and otherwise give you nothing. You have done nothing for me so why should I care about anything."

"You want investment to allow you to live the lifestyle you and my brothers seem determined to live, regardless of the cost to everyone else. Ever since I turned eighteen you have tried to sell me to do that wanting a constant stream of income from whoever I marry. Most men of our social sphere can see through you and want nothing to do with you and I would not subject my friends to that simple to appease you…"

With that Joan received a slap across the face, with her father screaming "B*tch."

"Watch it father you need me. Not only to run the company you want to bleed dry, but to marry to save the company for you. If I left the company, you would be homeless within a week as you have no skills or abilities, nor do you know the first thing about the company to manage it."

"How dare you…"

Raising her voice Joan retorted "How dare I. I dare as it is my hard work that has funded the lifestyle that you and my brothers have lived for years, with little reward. If I worked for any other company, I would be earning millions a year, but strangely I have some family loyalty that has kept me working in the company. The problem is old man, no matter what I do it is never enough for you three. Whatever I earn is never enough to the point the company and this family cannot continue to bleed money…"

"Well your two sisters can stop school. Nothing comes from educating women in the first place."

"How dare you. It is this educated woman that funds your lifestyle, not you, not those idiot brothers of mine. What the three of you know about the company that you are meant to be the CEO and Deputy-CEO's of would fit in a pinhead."

"F*ck you, you b*tch."

"Language father. I am not into criminal activity with family members. But looking as objectively as I can at the three of you, your lifestyle makes you look ugly and unappealing to women. They only way that you have any women interested in you is you spend money you do not have on them. I just wish mother would go enough is enough and divorce you…"

"No one would take that crone, let alone your money sucking sisters who deny the men of the family the money they need, let alone a haughty b*tch like you…"

"Tell it like it is old man. You are selling me for your company to the highest bidder for what you can get," came Joan's snapped almost yelling reply. Dealing with her idiot of a father was taking her to the end of her tether. "You have tried time and time before, and I put a stop to you because you were looking at friends or people that would simply give into you time and time again for whatever money you want…"

"Well sons-in-law are meant to help fund their father-in-law's because they gave them their daughter…"

"Warped thinking old man. You do not give me to anyone. I will choose who I marry, not you. If my marriage can help my mother and sisters, I will make sure that happens, and if that means helping you and the idiots…"

"My sons are not idiots; you are an idiot…"

"Those two. One had too have three attempts to graduate High School, and the other was forced out of University after six months for severe academic cheating. Me, I have have a triple undergraduate degree in Business, Law and Languages, a Masters of Business Administration and am completing, slowly as the company needs me, a Doctoral degree and you want to call me an idiot. You cannot see past your own prejudices. But as I was saying, if to help my mother and sisters I have to help you three I will do it, but you better get it through your head, it will not be an ATM Machine. I will make sure of that, because I do not want my marriage ruined by your constant demands."

"Daughters are meant to…"

Joan held up her hands before saying, "Do not tell me what daughters are meant to do. Get your attitudes about women into the current century not three centuries ago. If not, I will make sure my marriage does not benefit you in any way, and I will walk away from the company. See how long you last."

Joan saw that her father finally received the message. There is no way he wanted her to leave the company because he knew the outcome.

"You better deliver you b*tch. You are living here because I let you, not because I am obliged to let you live here. If I had my way when you sold your apartment you would have been on the streets…"

"Keep going old man," sneered Joan. "You are pushing my limits, and I let you get away with a lot."

"Fine, you brat. You show no respect, but you know what I want and if I get it you can have custody of your sisters and pay for everything for those leeches instead of me."

"Promise?' Joan tried not to show her excitement. She wanted custody of her little sisters to get them away from this arrogant man. He would make their next years a living hell because he would want to use them for his financial benefit and that she would not allow. Plus, if they were away from here would be enough to spark her mother finally leaving him.

"If you deliver."

"I want that in writing now, signed by you and me, and you will on the day my engagement is announced sign papers to confirm on my wedding day I get custody of them."

"If you give me a hundred thousand now, and you can have your deal."

There it was, what was important for him, money. "Not possible. I have nothing as you have already taken it."

"Liar. You still pay your sisters school fees. You have money so give it to me."

Taking a breath, Joan said "Your choice twenty thousand now and that doc.u.ment and you get nothing in the future, or you sign now, and the benefits will flow much better than that."

"Both is what I want but I want the hundred thousand."

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