Love Beyond the Mask novel Chapter 846

"Phineas didn't give us the cutting-edge tech we were promised..." Wade's revelation hit him like a ton of bricks, his eyes reddening with anger, "When we signed the contract, we had no way to compare, to realize the deception.

It wasn't until Ludwik turned that high-tech into a market-ready product that we finally saw, we've been played."

"Ludwik... partnering with Parker, and to think they convinced Phineas to set us up."

Grinding his teeth, Wade was seething. It took him three decades of enduring humiliation to swallow the Lippert family empire whole. He thought he could eradicate Ludwik, the next generation, once and for all. Yet, when Ludwik was down and out, he grossly underestimated the young man's cunning.

Like a viper, as long as it's not completely dead, Ludwik would use every trick in the book to turn the tables.

Wade's lips trembled slightly.

Bryce, pale as a ghost, asked, "Mr. Patrick, what do we do now? The whole world's eyes are on the Hausen Group, this partnership between Parker and Phineas. Our product launch... it's doomed."

How could it not be doomed?!

Wade, defeated, looked beneath the stage at the reporters who were already buzzing with speculation. This press conference had turned into a farce for him and Bryce, a mess they couldn't explain away to their partners.

The business moguls of Emperor City, and indeed, the whole of Harmonia Country, were no fools.

Did anyone really not understand the situation at hand?

Wade seemed to age a decade in that moment.

He looked down at the gathered journalists, already restless and eager to cause a stir with their microphones.

He couldn't stay here any longer!

Stumbling to his feet, as reporters saw them leaving and hurriedly rushed forward to catch the big news.

Bryce signaled to the bodyguards, and it was with great difficulty that they managed to escort the three of them out. However, turning around, they saw the CEOs of the companies they had contracts with, all blocked at the venue's entrance, demanding compensation for breach of contract.

"Mr. Patrick, Mr. Lutz, you boasted to the heavens, guaranteeing this was Inko Group's most advanced technology. That the aerospace materials developed were top-notch, assuring us a no-lose deal.

Well, last night the Lippert family's product launched first, and it's already being used in rockets.

What are we supposed to sell now?

I signed a deal worth half a billion with the Patrick Group, now pay up!"

"Mr. Lutz, don't think you can escape either. My deal with the Lutz Group was worth ten billion, and now your product isn't developed with the most advanced technology as promised. I'll sue you for breach of contract, as per the agreement, you owe me twenty billion!"

Wade and Bryce's faces turned sour, desperately signaling their bodyguards to block these irate CEOs.

These orders were not even their biggest contracts.

"Don't you dare leave!"

"You think you can run off with our hard-earned money? No way!"

"The Patrick Group, claiming to be the top enterprise in Emperor City, thinking of playing dirty, Wade... ha, you stepped on the Lippert family to climb up. I always knew you were petty, not cut out to be a magnate. Indeed, your business acumen is trash! You're nowhere near old man Jason Lippert!"

"What did you say?" Wade stopped dead, his usually calm face contorted with fury, "Say that again, I dare you!"

"Say it a million times and you're still nothing but a leech that rose through Mrs. Lippert Thea!" The accuser, now also infuriated, blurted out gossip in front of the reporters, "Your affair with Thea, the whole wives' circle in Emperor City was buzzing about it back then.