No longer a pushover

Chapter 604

Laura finally spoke up, her voice soft but pointed. "Ced, you're being reckless. I

know you care about Ms. Liddell, but there should be limits.

"With so much competition in the industry, what if she accidentally leaks

confidential info? That could be a disaster."

Tommy quickly chimed in, backing her up. "Exactly. You shouldn't let a woman get

in the way of work. That's not like you, Mr. Greene."

Cedric gave everyone in the room a glance. "Didn't you all want to meet the lead

engineer on the Al project? Well, I brought her with me tonight."

The room fell into complete silence. Laura gripped her glass so tightly that her

knuckles turned white. She looked at Noelle, unable to believe what she had just

heard.

Tommy stared in disbelief and mumbled, "Mr. Greene... you're saying the lead

engineer is SweetNelly, the gaming streamer?"

Cedric nodded once. "That's right. It's her."

"You've gotta be kidding. Are you seriously telling us a live-streamer is heading

your entire engineering division? She might be good at video games, but that's a

whole different world from engineering."

Cedric tapped his long fingers on the table, his sharp gaze sweeping across the

energy shifted immediately, and no

"Do you really think I'd joke about

was

the legendary engineer everyone had

young but also a

Greene, I'm sorry, but

anything like the person we've

around it. The

Noelle just to impress her, maybe

"You judge too

got scammed out of your money by

them

he refused to back down. "That's a low

Greene, I gotta

invested money in this project. What if you got

investments would be toast."

of it. She turned slightly

Clearly, he was

She completely understood where

crowd was

she was young,

colleagues who

at Maple Enterprise, no

believed she could

title.

face was blank, his dark eyes unreadable.

time

said flatly, "In that case, we'll

in quickly.

What you said

believe.