Chapter 222

Ailie beamed. "Alright!"

Curtis's car pulled up to The Langford Group before the others. He spotted Victoria and her companions waiting at the entrance.

"Why aren't you going in?" he asked, his gaze soft but tinged with something more complicated.

"We can't, apparently," Victoria replied, glancing toward the front desk and the security guards.

"Just tell them we're from Quantum Core Technologies. That should be enough."

Curtis was about to lead Victoria inside when Violet appeared, moving quickly enough to intercept them. Victoria didn't see McNeil he was probably off parking the car.

Switching to her work voice, Victoria greeted Violet with a polite formality. "Ms. Marchand."

Ailie stood off to the side, pointedly avoiding Violet's eyes, her posture stiff and chilly.

Violet nodded, keeping her focus entirely on Curtis. "McNeil asked me to show you around first. Ms. Ailie, Ms. Turner, please wait here. Someone from the company will come down and take you up through the staff entrance."

fully understood the tension between Violet and Victoria. Maybe it had something to do with that

but Curtis couldn't shake the sense that something

Victoria, feeling

to drag down your executive image," Ailie

Group belongs to the Langfords, not

her hands on her hips, mimicking Violet's clipped tone. "Mr. Garcia, McNeil asked me

Or is he one of the top execs? Seriously, you could've had him take us upstairs! The Langfords have an empire-you're practically the lady of the house, and yet

It was, after all,

into building an empire together, and yet Vertex Dynamics

who cares about these things. It's none of my business,"

over Vertex Dynamics—or the entire Langford Group—to Violet, that was his

left speechless, torn

and Ailie waited for their escort, and Victoria let her gaze wander across the lobby. Vertex Dynamics looked entirely different now compared to just a few years ago; after all, this was the very heart of the

ago, McNeil had been nearly forced out by a bloc of shareholders who wanted him to give up his father's shares

those dark days, exhausting every resource the Turner family had to

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