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“Bullsh*t!” Felipe defended himself. “It’s clear that you were the ones who stole our product and modified it. And now, you’re attacking us, the original creators?”

Marcelo added, “Ms. Garland, you said you would provide us with an explanation. Is twisting the truth in front of the reporters supposed to be it? You accused our perfumer of stealing the perfume, but how did he do it?”

“Mr. Saunders knows very well where he got it.” Rayna flashed a slight smile before flipping the document on the table open.

It showed the record of Felipe accepting a delivery last month, which was sent from an old residential area in Norwal City. The delivery man had also noted down that the package contained perfume.

The sight of the document contents caused Felipe to panic as he explained nervously, “It was just a delivery of perfume I bought on the internet. How could you accuse me of plagiarism based on something like that?”

“What about this?” Rayna retrieved a recording pen from her pocket.

Once Rayna played it, Felipe’s drunken voice rang out. He was telling someone that he had struck gold in a delivery that he had received.

The sound of his own words drained the color from Felipe’s face. “Ms. Garland, you’re really despicable to—”

“Take a listen. That’s your own voice. I didn’t force you to do anything.” Wearing a faint smile, Rayna said to the media, “Glory has never stolen any of Egret Scents’ products.”

One of the reporters asked curiously, “If you didn’t plagiarize them, why were they the first ones to bring the product to the market? Mind explaining it to us, Ms. Garland?”

“I’ll do so in a while.”

Ella brought forward another document, and Rayna opened it to show everyone. It contained the formula for the perfume Felipe was holding, Glory’s purchase contract for it, and a non-disclosure agreement.

the first place. When I went to Summerbank for work last month, I gave a newly-made friend of mine a sample of the perfume. Unfortunately, that friend sent the sample to Mr. Saunders of Egret Scents in an attempt to sabotage me.” Rayna proceeded to

the turn of events, Marcelo berated Felipe, “Didn’t you claim that you formulated it yourself? Why does

Felipe’s forehead. “Hurry up and think of a way to

Why didn’t

was piling pressure on me to come up with a new product. I was left with

“Shut up!”

that moment.

Rayna spoke to the reporters,

to him by someone. Furthermore, he had no

lowered his voice, hoping to resolve the matter amicably

grateful, he spurned her

no mood to show any mercy as a ruthless glint flashed across her eyes. “You know the law better than I do. You should have known the consequences of using something that doesn’t belong to you. If he had only reverse-engineered the product, we would be willing to let the matter slide if you would give up

“I’ll have the products pulled from the shelf at once and release

do? Do you know how much damage you have caused to our company’s market value when you insisted we plagiarized your

turned grim. “It was your mistake

admit that the error is mine, but that doesn’t give your company the right to

dumbfounded

the document, Rayna demanded, “Pull your products from the shelf, recall those that have been sold to consumers, and get Felipe to apologize to

balled his

contrast to going to court, where the reputational damage would be huge. With the speed of present-day media, news of it would

the pros and cons of the matter,

and issue a letter of apology. I hope you’ll