“Bye!”
Rayna waited until Emerald hailed herself a taxi before getting into Ella’s car.
“What’s the progress on the investigation?” she asked while switching on her phone.
“Ms. Evans did manage to find something. The perfume that Egret Scents released last month wasn’t created by their own perfumer,” Ella replied.
Rayna’s eyes lit up when she heard that. “Did their perfumer buy it from someone else?”
“No.”
“No? So, they didn’t create it, nor did they buy it from someone else. Then where did he get it from?” Rayna asked in confusion.
Ella told her everything that Suzie had managed to find out about.
Suzie had contacted one of Glory’s employees and said she had breached the company’s non-disclosure agreement by handing their perfume to a rival company. Suzie then said she would give that employee a second chance to make things right.
In order to maintain a clean employment record, the employee contacted her sister, who was working for Egret Scents, and asked for her help. As her sister was working in the production team, she was able to befriend the perfumer rather easily.
Egret Scents profited greatly from the sales of that perfume. Because of that, the perfumer became famous and ended up letting his ego get to his head. Two days ago, he got drunk at the company party and let it slip when the sister asked about it.
The perfumer said he received a perfume sample in the mail last month. He didn’t know who sent it to him, but he found its scent incredibly unique. As his higher-ups were pressuring him to come up with a new product, he recreated that perfume sample and submitted it.
The perfumer was a little nervous when the product was first launched. However, he stopped worrying when everything went smoothly after the launch.
After providing Rayna with the full story, Ella added, “Ms. Evans looked up that perfumer’s courier records and found out that it came from a small town in Norwal City. After heading over to the location stated on the address, Ms. Evans discovered that it was a vacant house with no telephone line. She then made a trip to the courier company and asked a courier about the package.”
Rayna arched an eyebrow in response. “So many days have passed by now. That guy probably processes tons of packages on a daily basis. Does he even know who sent it?”
“Apparently, he does. The courier said he remembered a married couple having an argument when he went to collect the package. The woman even gave the man a slap across the face. According to the courier, the woman looked extremely frail and seemed that she had been really ill. She wanted to mail the package out, but the man kept trying to stop her. The woman was still yelling at the man even after the courier left with the package.”
That was when Ella recalled something and handed Rayna a few photographs. “Ms. Evans checked the surveillance camera footage around that couple’s house. She managed to get us these photographs. Have a look and see if you recognize them.”
As the pictures were taken from a surveillance camera, they were rather blurry.
Even so, Rayna could recognize Vivi and her husband almost instantly when she saw the photographs.
That was when Rayna finally understood everything. “I was wondering which one of our perfumers had betrayed us. Who would’ve thought I was the one who caused all this?”
Vivi wanted to get her revenge on me, so she sent that perfume sample to Egret Scents’ perfumer and had him launch it before us! If Glory launched its product afterward, Egret Scents would be able to accuse us of copying its product. That would ruin Glory’s reputation as well as my own.
Unsure of what she meant, Ella asked, “Do you know this couple, Ms. Garland?”
“I do. This woman is the one who sued me for attempting to murder her,” Rayna replied coldly while tearing the photograph to pieces.
That piqued Ella’s curiosity. “Why would she withdraw the lawsuit, then? Could this be another one of her tricks? How about I send you home, Ms. Garland? We’ve already suppressed the news, and we now have the truth. Egret Scents won’t be able to sabotage us even if they try.”
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