Leah curled her lip and gave a dismissive little scoff. "Taking on all those big contracts at once? Careful you don't bite off more than you can chew."

But even as she said it, her words lacked conviction and came out tinged with jealousy.

After all, if PrimeStar was willing to take on so many major projects, they most likely had the chops to handle them.

Her father felt the same sting of envy.

Thinking about how the Hawkins family and Neural Nexus Tech kept hitting dead ends in their research, while PrimeStar seemed to breeze past every bottleneck, he couldn't help but mutter, "I don't know how Stewart recruits people-how does he keep finding such incredible talent?"

Ever since PrimeStar's meteoric rise, both Neural Nexus Tech and the Hawkins family's tech company had tried to poach PrimeStar's engineers.

But now that PrimeStar was a household name, every major company-domestic and international-was lining up to lure away their team. In comparison, the Hawkins family and Neural Nexus Tech didn't have much to offer.

Even with generous offers on the table, it was almost impossible to tempt truly outstanding talent away from PrimeStar.

And while other giants openly and covertly tried to poach from them, PrimeStar kept rolling out new innovations, proving they had no shortage of creative minds.

That alone was enough to make anyone green with envy.

her head, absently pushing rice grains around her

Vesta could

the clearer it became- breakthroughs weren't just a matter of

silent, they didn't press

with Neural Nexus Tech's stalled progress as they

***

The next day.

conference room for a meeting. She'd barely settled in

morning that there's a lot of buzz at one of the auction houses. Apparently, they're about to auction

blinked in surprise. "Are

"Absolutely."

stuck with Stewart because, back then, he and Charlene hadn't known each other long. There'd been news of a rare

been

Stewart first learned about her

mother-not just any diamond, but a top-tier one-because her mother

finest,

hands on a truly exceptional diamond, maybe it would help bring her mother, Sybil Ross, out of

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