She Left She Thrived She’s Worth Billions novel Chapter 814

"Don't worry," Melanie purred. "Even if you wanted to take my name, the Royce family would never claim someone like you."

"Melanie!"

Leila pointed a trembling finger at her, completely losing her composure.

"Wipe that smug look off your face! Just wait until your precious Arctic Burdock Root is harvested and inspected. You're going to pay for this!"

Shooting one last venomous glare at her rival, Leila pivoted on her heel and prepared to storm off.

"Leila Langley!"

Gabriel's voice suddenly cut through the tension.

Leila whipped her head back around, only to see him watching her with a highly amused expression.

"The zipper on your dress is down."

Gabriel was naturally loud, and he had practically yelled the observation.

Every single person in the venue heard him loud and clear.

In perfect synchronization, the entire crowd dropped their gaze to Leila's lower half.

Leila's face instantly burned crimson with mortification.

She panicked, frantically twisting around to check her dress, but lost her balance on her stilettos and violently rolled her ankle.

"Ouch!"

She let out a sharp gasp of pain, stumbling awkwardly.

"Oh, wait, my bad! I was seeing things. Sorry!" Gabriel chuckled.

Leila stared at him in sheer disbelief, her eyes welling up with furious, humiliated tears.

"You... you absolute jerk..."

As ripples of mocking laughter echoed around her, Leila realized she couldn't endure another second in that room.

Watching her scramble away like a fleeing criminal, Melanie's lips curled into a cold, satisfied smirk.

Leila looked like a defeated soldier retreating from a massacre, but...

This wasn't nearly enough.

Melanie thought back to the vicious threat her enemy had just spat at her.

Just wait until your precious Arctic Burdock Root is harvested and inspected...

Leila Langley, you have no idea what's coming for you.

Meanwhile, at Lockridge Health & Wellness.

Inside the Vice President's office.

His chest tightened with a suffocating wave of agitation.

"Tell me again... did Melanie seriously bet you a hundred million dollars?"

"Of course it's true! Why would I lie to you?"

Dominic stared at her, assessing her tear-stained face. She didn't look like she was lying.

After a brief moment of heavy contemplation, he buzzed his assistant into the office.

"Keith, I need you to run a deep background check for me. Find out exactly which corporate contacts the CEO of the Royce Group has been meeting with lately."

Dominic was intensely curious to know where Melanie was drawing her unwavering confidence from to make such an astronomical gamble.

That was a hundred million dollars!

There was no way Gabriel Whitmore was blindly tossing millions into the wind just to cover for her, right?

Dominic let out a harsh scoff, shaking his head.

"Is she seriously living in some delusional fantasy world?"

Two days later, Keith returned with critical intelligence.

"VP Hale, my sources confirmed something interesting... The CEO of the Royce Group has been desperately hunting for a substitute for the Type-L Bio-Fertilizer from Apex Organics. And... she finally locked down a new piece of land."