Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 846

"Phineas didn't give us the cutting-edge tech we were promised..." Wade's revelation hit him like a ton of bricks, his eyes reddening with anger, "When we signed the contract, we had no way to compare, to realize the deception.

It wasn't until Ludwik turned that high-tech into a market-ready product that we finally saw, we've been played."

"Ludwik... partnering with Parker, and to think they convinced Phineas to set us up."

Grinding his teeth, Wade was seething. It took him three decades of enduring humiliation to swallow the Lippert family empire whole. He thought he could eradicate Ludwik, the next generation, once and for all. Yet, when Ludwik was down and out, he grossly underestimated the young man's cunning.

Like a viper, as long as it's not completely dead, Ludwik would use every trick in the book to turn the tables.

Wade's lips trembled slightly.

Bryce, pale as a ghost, asked, "Mr. Patrick, what do we do now? The whole world's eyes are on the Hausen Group, this partnership between Parker and Phineas. Our product launch... it's doomed."

How could it not be doomed?!

Wade, defeated, looked beneath the stage at the reporters who were already buzzing with speculation. This press conference had turned into a farce for him and Bryce, a mess they couldn't explain away to their partners.

The business moguls of Emperor City, and indeed, the whole of Harmonia Country, were no fools.

Did anyone really not understand the situation at hand?

Wade seemed to age a decade in that moment.

He looked down at the gathered journalists, already restless and eager to cause a stir with their microphones.

stay

leaving and hurriedly rushed forward to catch

out. However, turning around, they saw the CEOs of the companies they had contracts with,

you boasted to the heavens, guaranteeing this was Inko Group's most advanced technology. That the

night the Lippert family's product launched first,

supposed

a deal worth half a billion with the Patrick

escape either. My deal with the Lutz Group was worth ten billion, and now your product isn't developed with the most advanced technology as promised. I'll sue you for

not even

"Don't you dare leave!"

think you can run off with our hard-earned money?

stepped on the Lippert family to climb up. I always knew you were petty, not cut out to be

calm face contorted with fury, "Say that again, I

rose through Mrs. Lippert Thea!" The accuser, now also infuriated, blurted out gossip in front of the reporters, "Your affair with Thea, the whole wives' circle

You were entangled with her even before

is the illegitimate child born from your sordid affair... Look everyone, Wade has been a kept man for years just

Jarvis, deal with this man!"

quickly led

a business partner. At

into his car, he grew more incensed the more he thought about it, furiously smashing

Phineas had played him!

was determined to settle

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Inko Group, Chairman's Office.

Phineas saw Parker's press conference, he was livid, his face turning a