The Tale Of Loki by DickMcJones

Chapter 40

"You want me to do what?" I ask the person who practically begged my secretary for a meeting.

"I'm asking for you to sell your shares to Stark Industries." Obadiah Stane said. "After Tony's announcement, a lot of people sold their shares, and I thought it prudent to buy them."

"So Stark Industries' temporary CEO wants that temporary title gone. It's a shame you weren't fast enough to buy all the shares. I wonder who was the asshole who bought them up." I say provoking him.

"It was you." He said while trying to stop his jaws from clenching in anger. Unfortunately, dear old Stane didn't have perfect body control, and I am an experienced empath.

"If you sell me a few of your shares, I could make you a rich man. Well, richer man. As much as I love Tony. After what he suffered, I am afraid he will make bad decisions for the company, causing us to lose more money. He already shut down the weapons manufacturing department, which was one of our main income sources."

"Your advice is sound, but I am sure Stark can manage. You should have more faith in your boss." To be honest, I wouldn't have faith in him either if I didn't have access to the time stone occasionally. I have known Yao for years, so she allowed me to experiment pretty frequently.

If the company didn't profit from stark's self-made inventions, he would have been booted out a long time ago.

"I have faith as a long time friend, it's just that, I need to be more pragmatic when it comes to the business."

"Selling my shares would be incredibly stupid since I would lose a lot of money."

"You will lose even more money if the company goes bankrupt because of Tony doing something stupid."

I just hum noncommittally. The guy did have a point. Tony did give his company to a secretary in the future. Of course, that is only because he thought he would die, so he wanted it to go to someone trustworthy.

The bald traitor tried to haggle for the rest of the meeting but I was just amused by his attempts.

"I hope you won't regret your decision when Stark Industries goes bankrupt, or be surprised when your investment fails massively."

Wow, really classy trying to threaten me. I doubt he would try and assassinate me since I am too high profile, but this is the same guy who wanted to kill Tony Stark so you never know.

Yelena pov:

Creating a criminal kingdom for a god is easier said than done. Why a god-like Loki would want to even create a criminal business with his power is anyone's guess.

I was currently in one of his famous nightclubs that he allowed me to use for operations, reading reports about our local brothels. One of the customers had gotten rather aggressive with one of the girls.

Loki's policy is that the comfort and safety of the prostitutes are more important than a bunch of horny people, so it was a somewhat delicate issue. Something that I can respect, to be honest.

While I was hanging out with Loki, I asked what he would do, his answer was to either cut off the guy's balls or kill him. Let's just say I am not asking him for advice again. Our business reputation would go to shit if the customers lose their balls.