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.

her folder. "We also left out the

is a courtesy briefing.

report," Izzy said. She closed her folder. "Call it what

at

kept his expression neutral.

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

Then lan turned to the assistant and gave a

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room.

lan said. "We'll get the full set of numbers to your office this

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his fingers lightly drumming on the surface

this.

meeting continued, but the tone had shifted. No one questioned

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

his expression sharp. "But that's not the woman I saw today. Isabella Rossi wasn't afraid to show her potential. She sat in

still. His eyes dropped slightly. "I didn't

"You didn't. And now, unless you plan to actually do something, she's going to take over the entire company. Not through force. Not through scandal. But because she's smarter. Faster.

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

overwhelmed. First time meeting the board. No formal corporate background. The file he read said she had spent the last two years being carted around the globe under Weiss Inc., working long hours for someone else's

should have worked in

had embarrassed Frank, corrected the reports, and exposed flaws no one else had noticed. Even Gregory hadn't known about the Manila delay.

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

the outside, he

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

He kept his voice even. "I'll

said that the