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

feet, as reporters saw them leaving and hurriedly rushed forward to catch the big

to escort the three of them out. However, turning around, they saw the

you boasted to the heavens, guaranteeing this was Inko Group's most advanced technology. That the aerospace materials developed were top-notch, assuring us a no-lose

last night the Lippert family's product launched first, and it's

supposed to

half a billion

you can 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 breach of contract, as per the agreement, you owe me twenty billion!" Wade and Bryce's faces turned sour, desperately signaling their bodyguards to block these

were not even their biggest

"Don't you dare leave!"

think you can run off with

Patrick Group, claiming to be the top enterprise in Emperor City, thinking of playing dirty, Wade... ha, you stepped on the Lippert family to climb up. I always knew you were petty, not cut out to be a magnate. Indeed, your business acumen is trash! You're nowhere near old man Jason

stopped dead, his usually calm face contorted with fury, "Say that again, I dare

but a leech that 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 in Emperor City was buzzing about it back

all about it. You were entangled with her even

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

Jarvis, deal with this

quickly led the

sore spot, forgetting this person was a business partner. At such a crucial time, he still didn't know to hold back. Bryce discreetly

into his car, he grew more incensed the more he thought about it, furiously smashing everything inside the vehicle. He then drove straight to the

Phineas had played him!

determined to settle this

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Inko Group, Chairman's Office.

press conference, he was livid, his face