Five Years Wasted Now They Beg Her Back novel Chapter 26

“Ms. Hart, we’ve optimized the data redundancy issue you pointed out yesterday. Could you take a look at this proposal?”

“Ms. Hart, the new superconducting material samples are in. Would you like to see them?”

“Ms. Hart, you should go get some rest. We’ll keep an eye on things here. You’ve been working for forty hours straight!”

“Ms. Hart” was a sign of their absolute respect for her abilities.

Although Grace worked seamlessly with the team, she insisted on handling the most critical experimental verifications and data deductions herself.

She knew that this work would become the sharpest, most irrefutable weapon she could wield against her enemies.

And it was a weapon she had to forge with her own hands.

***

Meanwhile.

Lilian and her allies were still basking in the glow of their victory, lost in their blissful fantasies of the future.

Of course, they hadn’t completely forgotten about Grace.

Ethan had even assigned people to watch the run-down apartment complex where Ivy lived, twenty-four hours a day.

The reports that came back put their minds completely at ease.

“The target leaves that shabby apartment every day and takes the subway to an ordinary office building. It looks like she found a job.”

“She’s dressing poorly, too. All cheap, off-the-rack clothes.”

“Sometimes at night, she buys discounted meals from the convenience store.”

“She looks exhausted and haggard.”

This news was music to their ears.

In their minds, this was the fate Grace deserved after being blacklisted by both the Ward and Hart families.

That hypocritical performance earned her a reputation for being “kind and considerate.”

Cassian and Ethan, meanwhile, were busy preparing a bid for a major international project.

The research that Grace had originally produced was the key technological component for that project.

Now, that research was, as a matter of course, credited to Lilian.

They were busy with business dinners and networking, trying to curry favor with various influential figures.

In their eyes, the name “Grace” had become a stain that had been thoroughly cleansed, a nuisance that only brought irritation whenever it came to mind.

She had faded into obscurity on her own.

She couldn't make waves any longer.

This month-long period of being ignored and forgotten was precisely what gave Grace the most precious, uninterrupted time she needed for her research.