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Chapter 116

Camila’s POV Post

“You really believe Alpha Philip chose NEXZONE because you impressed him so much?” I gave a small shake of my head. “Perhaps you should ask yourself why he was so eager to get that contract signed before anyone had a chance to reconsider.”

Her confidence faltered. “What are you talking about?”

“Have you checked the latest news?”

She stared at me. “TexCore has been suspended. The technology you’ve built this partnership around is in serious trouble. The authorities have stepped in, and companies using it are facing a major problem.”

Susan’s face changed. “That can’t be true.”

“Why don’t you check for yourself?” I replied calmly. “You were so eager to celebrate this deal a few minutes ago. I would hate for you to miss the other side of the news.”

She pulled out her phone almost immediately. Her fingers moved across the screen as she searched, but I could see the confidence draining from her face with every passing second. “No. This is impossible.”

Her phone rang. She glanced at the caller ID. It was her secretary.

For a moment, she simply stared at the screen before answering.

“Hello?”

The voice coming through was too loud for me not to catch some of it. “Ms. Susan, there’s a serious problem with the partnership we signed. The TexCore technology has been suspended. The announcement is already out, and the project is affected.”

Susan’s grip tightened around her phone. “What? How can that be? Have you confirmed this?”

“Yes, ma’am. We’ve checked. It’s official.”

I watched her expression carefully. The news had clearly shaken her, but the next question she asked made me realise she was beginning to understand the full extent of the problem.

“What about the payment?”

There was a brief pause. “The finance department confirmed that the transfer has gone through. The money has already been sent to their account.”

Susan went completely still. “How much has been transferred?”

The secretary gave her the figure. For a moment, she didn’t speak. Her face had lost its colour, and the phone almost slipped from her hand.

folded my arms. A few minutes earlier, she had been standing there boasting about her achievement and looking down on me. Now, she could barely hold herself together. I didn’t feel the need to add anything. The consequences of a poorly investigated deal were already speaking for themselves.

Roman’s POV

The TexCore crisis had already become the subject of an emergency meeting. The department heads were gathered in the conference room, along with the executives responsible for the Alpha Philip partnership. My vice, Susan, was the only person missing.

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I took my seat at the head of the table and glanced through the latest reports. The situation was worse than we’d initially anticipated. Companies that had invested heavily in TexCore were already scrambling to assess

heir losses. The door opened, and Susan finally walked in.

She paused briefly at the entrance, then approached the table with an apologetic smile. “Sorry I’m late A meeting with a client took longer than expected.”

I looked up from the documents. “What Client?” My question was simple, but Susan seemed uncomfortable.

She glanced at me before speaking again. “Alpha Blackwell, did Miss Hart contact you about me

My fingers stopped moving. “What does Miss Hart have to do with this meeting?”

Susan pressed her lips together. “She has been making trouble for me. I went to the hospital to see someone, and we happened to cross paths. I enlightened her about my success on the deal with Alpha Philip, but she became hostile. She even threatened me.”

My expression remained unchanged. “She threatened you?”

“Yes. She was angry that NEXZONE secured the partnership instead of Whitmore Group.” Susan shook her head. “I think Whitmore Group may have something to do with this. They wanted that contract, and now that they’ve lost it, they’re trying to sabotage us.”

A low growl stirred in my chest. I slowly put down the report. “You went to the hospital to see Miss Hart?”

Susan hesitated. “I was visiting someone else. I only happened to see her there.”

“And you decided to provoke her?”

“That’s not what happened, Alpha Blackwell. She’s twisting everything. I’ve been under tremendous pressure securing this deal, and now she’s trying to make me look incompetent.”

“Enough, Susan.” My voice cut through the room. She fell silent.

“Can you take responsibility for a mistake without dragging someone else into it?”

“Alpha Blackwell, I conducted extensive research before approving this partnership. There were no signs that TexCore would develop problems. The technology had performed well in previous tests. How was I supposed to know this would happen?”

“You were supposed to investigate beyond the reports placed in front of you.”

“But the information available to us-”

“Stop!” My Alpha aura pushed against the room. The atmosphere changed instantly. A few executives lowered their heads, while others sat rigidly in their chairs. Even Susan’s confident posture faltered.

I leaned forward. “You signed a major partnership without properly investigating the technology at its core. Now that the project is in trouble, your first instinct is to accuse Whitmore Group of sabotage?”

She swallowed. “They were competing against us for the same deal. It’s possible they knew something we didn’t and deliberately waited until we signed before releasing the information.”

I stared at her. “Do you hear yourself?”

She lowered her eyes. “Alpha Blackwell, I only meant-”

“Do you have any idea how much money NEXZONE would have lost if that payment had gone through?”

Her head snapped up. I opened the financial report and pushed it across the table. “After the contract was signed, I instructed the finance department to hold the transfer. The amount was too substantial to release

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without further checks. I’ve also had our technical team conduct an independent review.”

Susan looked stunned. “You stopped the payment?”

And I did it before the news broke.”

She stared at me, apparently struggling to understand. “But the contract was already signed. Why would you

I ignored her and turned to the head of Legal, who immediately understood my signal. He stepped forward and placed a document on the table.

“This clause protects NEXZONE,” he explained. “Peter’s Company will be held responsible for any losses) resulting from defects in the project or its technology. The agreement also gives us the right to claim compensation amounting to ten times the damages.”

Susan’s eyes settled on the document. Recognition slowly dawned on her. She remembered that /had. personally revised the contract before approving it. What she probably hadn’t expected was that I had also stopped the payment before it could be processed.

“Alpha Blackwell,” she asked after a brief hesitation, “did you know something was wrong with the technology before now?”

I gave her a measured look. “Instead of worrying about what I knew, you should be asking yourself why you failed to uncover it before recommending the partnership. Read every clause, investigate every detail, and understand what you’re putting this company into before you bring a project to my table. You won’t always be fortunate enough to have a safety net.”

Susan pressed her lips together. “Understood.”

She looked far from pleased, but I wasn’t interested in making her feel better. She had been entrusted with the project, and she had failed to do the necessary checks. That was something she needed to take responsibility for. Peter’s Company was already facing serious consequences. With the technology suspended and the penalty clause working in our favour, they could end up paying far more than they had received from the deal. As for Susan’s hope of getting the money back, she would have to deal with that

herself.

I had more important matters on my mind.

Camila’s warning had saved NEXZONE from a potentially disastrous investment. If she hadn’t brought the matter to my attention, we might have released the payment and suffered a considerable loss before discovering the extent of the problem. I hadn’t forgotten what she did.

In fact, I owed her a proper thank–you.

But between her grandmother’s sudden illness and the demands of running her own company, she had enough on her plate already.

I hadn’t had a chance to see her. Perhaps she wasn’t particularly interested in seeing me either. After all, she had once made it clear that she didn’t like me very much.