Mr. Villain's Lovely Wife

Chapter 199

lan adjusted his chair and glanced around the table. "Now that introductions are done, let's proceed to the real agenda of the meeting. We'll begin with the most recent quarterly reports."

His assistant, a young man with neat hair and a sharp suit, moved from chair to chair, placing a folder in front of each board member. When he reached Izzy, he hesitated for half a second before setting the file in front of her. She opened it.

Izzy scanned the pages. Profit margins, operational expenses, overseas revenue. She hadn't seen any of these figures yet. As far as she knew, the quarterly meeting was scheduled for the following month. These numbers weren't supposed to be on the table yet.

She glanced at Anna, who was standing near the corner of the room, tablet in hand. Anna shook her head slightly. She didn't know about it either.

lan leaned forward. "This isn't the official quarterly meeting, of course. That's still set for next month. But since you're here, Ms. Rossi, we thought it might be useful to show you what the company's been working on recently. Consider this a preview."

Gregory Vasili flipped open his folder with both hands, scanning the pages. "It's not much of a preview if we're going through the entire report."

"Not the entire report," lan said. "Just the highlights."

Linda Keating adjusted her glasses. "I assume these numbers were reviewed by internal audit?"

lan nodded. "Yes. We had them validated last week."

Izzy continued reading. Some of the projections looked optimistic. Too optimistic. The manufacturing costs for the Munich facility were listed as lower than expected. The Southeast Asia logistics report excluded the delays she had heard about in a private memo two weeks ago.

"Why isn't the supply chain issue in here?" Izzy asked, looking up. Her eyes moved across the table, landing on lan.

lan didn't answer immediately. He looked toward Frank Dorsey, who was already leaning back in his chair.

"You mean the Port of Manila delays?" Frank said. "We didn't think they were material enough to be included in this version."

"They stalled shipments for two and a half weeks," Izzy said. "That's not material?"

Frank shrugged. "That's subjective."

"Not when you're the one covering the penalties," she replied.

DuPont turned a page in her folder. "We also left out the litigation updates. I thought that was

"This is a courtesy briefing. Not everything

call it a report," Izzy said. She closed her folder. "Call it what it is. A controlled

at lan. "She has

his expression neutral.

away. "Let me know when the real data's

a moment. Then lan turned to the assistant and gave a small nod. The

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didn't say anything else. Meanwhile Gregory continued watching her, his fingers lightly drumming on the surface of the

this.

one questioned who held the most power in the

meek, stupid woman who had been working tirelessly for another company because of a man," Gregory said, his hands clasped behind his back

wasn't afraid to show her potential. She sat in that room and tore through our projections like she'd been doing this

His eyes dropped slightly. "I didn't

she's going to take over the entire company. Not through force. Not through scandal. But because she's

nothing. The sting in his chest had nothing to do with his grandfather's words -it was the truth behind

said she had spent the last two years being carted around the globe under Weiss Inc., working long hours for someone else's dream. She was supposed to be burnt out. Distracted. Reeling from her public fallout with Calen Weiss. And

have

else had noticed. Even Gregory hadn't known about the Manila delay. Frederik only found out from the secretary an hour ago, who mentioned Izzy's sharp tone and the way she shut down every weak explanation

it, but Frederik was irritated. She wasn't supposed

he nodded.

now, I see a woman with fifty-two percent of the voting power and a

kept his

that the