Chapter 699

When Watts came over, he sat right down beside Elodie. "Mr. Silverstein, I need to discuss some work with Elodie-hope you don't mind?"

Jarrod was already striding toward the front of the room. "You should be asking the person next to you if she minds, not me. Her choices aren't mine to control."

Elodie glanced up at Jarrod, catching a subtle undertone in his words. The nuance was there, but unless you were really listening, you'd miss it. To everyone else, it just sounded like he was respecting her wishes.

Watts looked at Elodie, still in good spirits. "What's this about? Mr. Silverstein

never used to give up ground like that."

Elodie lowered her head, texting Lily: "You're not sitting with your sister?"

Watts's smile faded, his tone turning indifferent. "We're not exactly close. She can sit wherever she wants."

Elodie glanced discreetly toward Patricia. At that exact moment, Patricia looked back, tilted her head, and flashed Elodie a wink and a playful smile.

Elodie curled her fingers into her palm, keeping a tight lid on the flood of emotions in her chest.

The internal review was about to begin.

Jarrod, as the main lead, naturally took a seat up front.

suddenly stalled. Someone

the results-again

look on

Jarrod looked up.

as well.

Jarrod, then at Elodie, replying with caution, "The testing parameters for the materials don't match up. The

narrowed,

our next round of investments. If the numbers

was money, and a setback now would mean

The representative continued, "It's

Ms Thorne submitted. The values are significantly higher than forecast about a 10%

But our

fall short of

looks like the

Falsified data?

slightly. She knew exactly

for tampering with official data on a government-level

a look. "Could it be a mistake

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