Farewell to Love: The CEO's Desperate Chase novel Chapter 629

The seconds ticked by in agonizingly slow motion.

It felt as though time had completely frozen inside the room.

A heavy silence hung in the air.

Only the clouds outside the window continued their rapid, restless march across the sky.

"Announce the results," Emilia finally instructed, breaking the quiet.

Parker didn't say a word. He merely waved a tired hand, gesturing for his staff to proceed.

A man immediately stepped forward and powered on the projector.

"Based on the comprehensive data we collected, the final metrics are as follows..."

The auditor clicked through the slides one by one, displaying the meticulously verified figures for both parties.

"...And our final conclusion is..."

The man pulled up the ultimate tally on the screen. "Emilia is the victor."

With that, he bowed deeply and stepped back into line with the rest of the staff.

Seeing the numbers in black and white, Emilia let out a quiet breath of relief.

"Does either party dispute these results?" Parker asked, his voice raspy.

"I accept," Emilia said.

"I object!" Vivienne shrieked.

Vivienne was past the point of caring about consequences. How could she possibly have lost?

One of the only reasons she had played along quietly these past few days was to wait for this exact moment.

As long as she won, the contract would legally bind them, and she would get exactly what she wanted.

But she lost.

Vivienne frantically flipped through the thick stack of printed documents on the table, jabbing a finger at the pages. "I demand a review! Emilia's numbers are completely fabricated."

"Both of our submitted datasets were formally recorded and rigorously audited," Emilia replied, her voice steady and unimpressed. "If you want to make accusations, you need to provide actual proof."

He was painfully aware of every dirty trick Vivienne had pulled over the past few weeks.

The entire audit team was comprised of his most trusted, senior accountants.

Emilia had won fair and square.

Yet Vivienne still had the nerve to throw a tantrum.

Did she really think just because he was old, he was a fool?

"A recount? Fine," Parker said, his voice dripping with icy sarcasm. "It just occurred to me that we haven't factored in the massive financial damages caused by the fallout from your Vivi's Whispers scandal. We'll deduct those losses from your final tally right now."

"You can't do that!" Vivienne panicked.

That disaster had cost a fortune—emergency concert cancellations, mass ticket refunds, penalties paid to furious sponsors. Deducting all of that would instantly plunge her net profits into the negatives.

"Tyler handled that mess on his own! I never asked him to do it, so it has absolutely nothing to do with me! You can't count that against my score!" Vivienne argued desperately.

Yes, exactly! When she was exposed for plagiarism, Tyler had his people lock her up and took it upon himself to clean up the PR nightmare. It wasn't her fault!

"Are you actually serious right now?" Cindy gasped, unable to hide her disgust. "I've never met anyone so utterly shameless in my entire life."