Never Mistake a Queen for a Lapdog novel Chapter 592

"Speak up! Have you all gone mute?"

The boardroom was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"Lloyd!" Seth barked.

The man he called on flinched, stuttering, "Mr... Mr. Harcourt, this... this is something you should probably ask Ms. Lowell about."

In that moment, Bianca felt a surge of humiliation.

Seth's gaze fell on her. His voice was still cold, but noticeably less harsh than when he'd addressed Lloyd.

"Then perhaps Ms. Lowell can explain why Ascendancy Group's computing chips have had a sixty percent defect rate for the past two quarters."

The number shocked Bianca.

She hadn't been to Ascendancy Group for a while, busy with PerseTech and her graduate school applications.

Especially during her intense study period, she had left everything in Spencer's hands.

But she never imagined the situation could have deteriorated this badly.

"Excuse me, I need to review the documents first," Bianca said, her lips pressed into a thin line.

Even without looking around, she could feel the eyes of everyone in the boardroom on her.

The atmosphere in the room grew heavy, oppressive and hard to breathe, like a vacuum.

Bianca felt as if a massive stone was crushing her chest, making it impossible to draw a full breath.

The data in the report said it all. Ascendancy Group's products had a major problem.

A sixty percent defect rate was a fatal blow for any company.

Many long-term clients had lodged formal complaints, and some had terminated their contracts outright.

The further she read, the more her heart sank.

She thought quietly covering the three-hundred-million-dollar compensation would be the end of it.

She never expected... that was just the beginning.

The compensation Ascendancy Group was now facing would be more than a hundred times that amount.

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