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

and no

think I'd joke about

knew Cedric was not the type

wild to think the legendary engineer

young

in. "Mr. Greene, I'm sorry,

look anything like the

one could wrap their head around it. The only

had elevated Noelle just to

turned his eyes on Tommy. "You judge

of your money by a

around them burst into

to back

And Mr. Greene, I gotta say, this looks kind

project. What if

investments would be toast."

turned slightly and glanced at Cedric, noticing

he

She completely understood where

crowd was

young,

who had worked

Maple Enterprise,

she could

title.

his dark eyes unreadable. His

this time louder,

he said flatly, "In that case, we'll terminate

jumped in quickly. "Ced,

What you said was

believe.