Chapter 126

Naylor, ever the easygoing one, simply grinned. "Long time no see."

His grandfather had held a cabinet-level post, and his father was high up in the military, so these sorts of social gatherings were nothing new to him. He was on familiar ground here.

After greeting everyone, his gaze drifted back to Elodie. An intrigued eyebrow arched he found her presence entertaining.

For Elodie to show up at a place like this... just how many of Alexander's resources were funneled her way?

Sylvie, meanwhile, nodded with practiced elegance. "I'm Sylvie, here on behalf of Mr. Silverstein of The Silverstein Group. Jarrod got caught up with something and might be late-my apologies."

Representing The Silverstein Group?

Elodie turned that phrase over in her mind.

Was this their way of signaling to everyone just

Mr. Silverstein,

a modest smile, but the warmth in her eyes spoke volumes. Anyone could see the unspoken intimacy between

bothered to analyze Sylvie's expression. She angled her body

the world's most advanced defense tech, and yet you didn't

value expertise. Out in the real world, maybe looks

implication was razor-sharp-it was just shy of

half- expecting to see a flicker of

"VistaLink Technologies has its own way of doing

brought your engineers here to learn something-opportunities like this don't come often.

easily breed resentment and division within the team. It was

it wasn't just Alexander-Patrick could sense the dismissive tone everyone took toward Elodie. He frowned,

alongside Mr. Sterling is here on merit. Let's not get

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