Chasing the Unexpected (Nyla)

Chapter 22

Instantly, everyone in the R&D department turned their eyes to Lucia.

Genevieve had never spoken to Lucia in such a harsh tone before, leaving Lucia more surprised than embarrassed. “Genevieve… what’s wrong?”

Genevieve didn’t respond and simply turned to walk back to her office.

As Lucia felt the curious gazes of her colleagues, her face turned red with embarrassment. When her eyes met Nyla’s, her anger flared even more. She was certain Nyla was waiting to see her make a fool of herself.

Suppressing her rage, she bit her lip and followed Genevieve into the office.

As soon as the door closed, Genevieve threw a document onto the desk in front of her. Take a look!”

Her tone was full of disappointment, and her gaze on Lucia was disapproving.

Confused, Lucia picked up the document and began to browse. Her face grew paler with each page, and her hands started to shake. How could this have happened?

Lucia’s guilty expression, Genevieve’s voice grew colder. “I used to think you were meticulous in your work. Do you even realize what you’ve done? Tampering with experimental data? Do you know how

I just wanted to make our data

yet you didn’t record any of it. You falsified the records, saying everything was

She had been so careful–how had

the report matched the timeline since

been there only a week and had

lip hard, seething with anger and hatred. She wished she could storm back to

got desperate and made a terrible mistake. Please, forgive me this one time.

at Lucia

her eyes and looked down,

already reported this to the headquarters. I’ll try to speak on your behalf, but the final decision is out of my

exposing her

could have covered this up for me.

Chapter 22

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