The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 360

"Let's not bring up the past, all right? We're here to discuss a partnership. After dinner, I'd appreciate it if you could show us somewhere more suitable to have a proper conversation," Victoria said, her tone measured.

She was worried Stein might push McNeil too far. If that happened, there was no telling what McNeil might do.

Stein was nothing like McNeil. As a military man, Stein lived by rules and discipline, while McNeil was a cutthroat businessman who played by no one's rules but his own.

Stein operated out in the open; McNeil preferred the shadows. Who knew what tricks McNeil might have up his sleeve for Stein?

Even the shrewdest minds can slip up once in a while.

Stein's current position was enviable, but enemies circled, waiting for a single misstep to bring him down.

If anyone found a critical weakness and exploited it, the consequences would be disastrous.

Seeing Victoria didn't want to dwell on the past, Stein let it drop. He'd delivered his warning; McNeil would get the message.

But jealousy had already clouded McNeil's judgment. Even a simple exchange of glances between Stein and Victoria looked, to him, like secret flirtation.

Rage simmered in his chest. For a moment, he almost called the whole thing off and stormed back to Starfall City.

But this partnership wasn't something he could just walk away from on a whim.

the military was a massive undertaking-he couldn't just back out because

his glass in

the conversation between the

Victoria the occasional harmless comment. McNeil, meanwhile, barely touched his food and didn't say another word, just

time Stein and Victoria spoke, McNeil felt as if insects were gnawing at his

very well leave in the middle of dinner. He had to sit there, swallowing his irritation while the other two laughed and

up a cool, unbothered facade, but his clenched jaw told the

this was Stein's territory-nobody cared what

and McNeil to a formal meeting

pulled out the contracts, and Victoria produced the research

the fruit of V&S Group's tech department's

V&S Group first ran into trouble, Victoria had already transferred all her senior engineers to

no intention of letting her people keep

with the hundreds of millions McNeil had given her, she

few researchers of his own. Everyone

side, silent, unable

over the minutiae of the project-tedious, exhausting work. Fortunately, Victoria was more than

questions Stein's team threw at her, she handled each one

watched them the entire time, his gaze lingering

known Victoria was her own person-never the

But after he'd made his fortune, Victoria's brilliance seemed to