She Left She Thrived She’s Worth Billions novel Chapter 805

As the automated doors slid wider, everything inside came into full view.

This place—

Was Melanie’s Private Bio-Lab.

A sanctuary belonging entirely to her.

Originally, this property really had been just a derelict factory.

Located on the outskirts of the city, it was adequately isolated and naturally came at a bargain price.

Melanie hadn't touched the exterior; in fact, the more rundown it looked, the better.

No one would come near it, and therefore, no one would discover her secret.

Even if a wild bear did somehow wander up here, it wouldn't spare a second glance at a crumbling, dilapidated mess of a building.

However...

The interior of this factory was a legitimate, high-tech research facility.

Even though Stellaris PharmaTech’s R&D Department had universally recognized her pharmaceutical expertise since their partnership began.

Her official title was still CEO of the Royce Group.

She was management.

Not a researcher.

At Stellaris, she would secretly guide the scientists, but she rarely operated the equipment herself.

She didn't want any rumors making their way back to her father's ears.

Ever since her mother passed away, pharmaceutical research was treated like a deadly plague in her father's eyes.

Looking around at the cutting-edge, precision instruments surrounding her, Melanie couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion.

All of this had cost an astronomical amount of money!

Funded partly by the settlement she had squeezed out of Dominic, with subsequent investments covered by her dividends from the Royce Group.

After so much effort... she finally had her own private lab.

And absolutely no one—especially her father—could ever find out about it.

It wasn't that she didn't trust Preston.

But the fewer people who knew she was secretly conducting biochemical research, the better.

Melanie took a deep breath. Just as she was about to pull the Arctic Burdock Root samples and the fertilizer out of her bag, her phone buzzed.

It was a text from Preston.

Just one word and a punctuation mark—

Safe?

Melanie didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Honestly, I'm not some head of state. Does he really think assassins are waiting in ambush around my lab to take me out?"

Muttering to herself, she sent Preston a ridiculously smug cartoon sticker in reply.

He murmured those words softly, his dark eyes gradually clearing.

"I see..."

This time, he dialed someone else.

"Hello? Preston, did you miss me?"

Gabriel's booming voice rang in his ear.

"Gabriel, I need you to look into something right now. Who leaked the information to the Lockridge Group that our collaboration with the Royce Group was for a blood-sugar-regulating supplement?"

"Huh?"

"Find out who it is, and fire them immediately."

"Oh... understood!"

Gabriel hadn't expected his brother to call with such a deadly serious order.

He thought this was going to be about his future sister-in-law!

"And also..."

Gabriel heard Preston's voice drop to an even more menacing octave.

"I heard you've been getting awfully cozy with my woman lately."

Pfft!

Gabriel spat a mouthful of beer right into the face of the gorgeous woman playing pool with him.