The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 223

Ailie exploded. "Who are you accusing of playing games behind the scenes? Listen, our Victoria comes from old money-what she spends on a manicure is more than your entire monthly salary. Say one more word and see what happens."

After months of pent-up frustration, Ailie was on the verge of coming to blows with Nelly. Nelly, startled, had only wanted to vent a little at Victoria—she never expected Ailie to go off like that.

Just as Ailie seemed about to lose control, Curtis strode in.

"What's going on here?"

"Mr. Garcia-"

Every executive who'd been hanging around for the drama immediately fell silent at the sight of Curtis.

"Ms. Turner, Ms. Ailie, come with me. The rest of you-Mr. Harper will take charge, and Mr. Langford has arranged for someone to host our guests."

With that, Curtis separated the two managers causing the ruckus, leaving the company's higher-ups with nothing to gossip about.

of them took the elevator up to the

manager is waiting for us. You know the ropes—go talk shop

about what happened last time. This time, everything you're involved with will have your

there-Curtis made no effort to

Technologies for one reason: access to their core tech-or, more precisely, to the people who understood

refused to help, Curtis would

after only a brief moment of

refused on her behalf, but Curtis had already compensated them handsomely last time. In Ailie's

couldn't

Garcia, you'd better not let Victoria get shortchanged again. Or

spoke. Victoria felt a little embarrassed— she hadn't suffered at all last time, in fact, she'd come out way ahead. Curtis, on the other hand,

won't," he said. And

Curtis took Ailie elsewhere- probably to the investment department, Victoria

"Ms. Turner?"

an engineer from Vertex Dynamics, couldn't hide his surprise. He'd never expected that the main developer behind Quantum Core Technologies' last game would be a striking woman. In his mind,