Chapter 436

Brandon's question hit the nail on the head, once again turning all eyes in the audience towards Marian, sparking a fresh wave of hushed whispers.

Marian looked like a deer caught in headlights.

She tried to speak but was at a loss for words, completely blindsided by Brandon's bombshell.

In her panic, Marian couldn't help but shoot a plea for help towards Martin.

Martin gave her a look of disappointment. She had seen Brandon's tough cookie act before, knew he wasn't one to beat around the bush, and yet here she was, still trying to dodge the bullet in such a public setting.

Brandon wasn't about to let her off the hook that easy, "Is Ms. Barlow finding it hard to spill the beans?"

Marian bit her lip, at sixes and sevens, gripping her phone so tightly her knuckles turned white. Her thumb stealthily reopened the hospital's webpage. The panicked look on her face vanished as she glanced at the paternity test results popping up on her screen. She turned to Brandon.

just wanted to break it down and learn from her design approach, plain and simple,

why I let their misunderstanding slide. I planned to whip up a different design to replace it, but due to a communication snafu with my brother, he ended up submitting Sophia's design for the project. At that point, I

mighty, but as the daughter of the Frost family, I couldn't drag our name through the mud in such a situation, so I had to suck it up and go through with the

to have any design renderings. The pitch was for the Frost family estate, not Sophia's design proposal. We were going to switch it up later; it's just that in the rush out the door, we

he turned to Marian. He couldn't believe she had the gall to flip her story in front of the media and try to

him her phone screen,

glanced at the phone, his expression shifting

they weren't out to steal Sophia's work, but that Martin had simply grabbed the wrong design

on her own design immediately. The whole mess was really due to a lack of communication with Martin, leading to the wrong design being submitted. But since no physical building existed yet, they could switch to her design for the final

along, even the slides without the estate renderings would corroborate her

Martin didn't nod or speak right away; he just stared at her, his expression a battlefield of

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