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 plate,

the Hawkins and Spencer families hoped Vesta could

industry, the clearer it became- breakthroughs

stayed silent, they didn't press

frustrated with Neural Nexus Tech's

***

The next day.

made her way to the conference room for a meeting. She'd

he leaned over and said quietly, "My mom mentioned this morning that there's a lot of buzz at one of the auction houses. Apparently, they're about to auction off a truly rare

surprise. "Are

"Absolutely."

he and Charlene hadn't known each other long. There'd been news of a rare diamond up for auction, starting at

had only been sixteen

when Stewart first learned about

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

finest, most

hoped that if she could get her hands on a truly exceptional diamond,

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