Three Years Forgotten, Why Go Crazy When I Say Goodbye? novel Chapter 520

Yet Vivienne stepped forward, instinctively fixing her hair. She slipped right into the routine she perfected with Julian—softening her voice and looking up with wide, tear-filled eyes. "Mr. Thorne, why do you insist on throwing me off the project team? I haven't done anything wrong. Please, I'm begging you, just give me one more chance. I promise I'll exceed your expectations and push this project forward flawlessly."

She laid it on thick, utterly convinced no man alive could resist a gorgeous woman looking so fragile and desperate.

Julian, Seth Sterling, and even that creep Jayden Chase—while some of them meant nothing to her, they all proved one universal truth: her beauty was an absolute weapon.

But the hesitation and pity she expected never came.

An awkward silence stretched between them. Vivienne finally looked up, only to find the man's expression entirely unchanged. His dark, fathomless eyes were as dead and frozen as a millennia-old glacier, failing to reflect a single ounce of her calculated vulnerability.

Silas's lips parted, his voice a low, freezing baritone devoid of any emotion. "The decision to remove you was my personal order."

And he wasn't finished. With absolute finality, he added, "And it's not just this project. From this day forward, you are permanently blacklisted from every property, division, and venture under Merit Biotech. You will never set foot inside Merit again."

With a single sentence, he had incinerated every last bridge.

Before she could even process the shock, his voice dropped again, carrying an oppressive, tyrannical weight. "Did I make myself perfectly clear?"

Faced with her hysterical demands, Silas merely lowered his gaze, his lips curving into a faint, bone-chilling sneer. "Evidence? You think I, Silas Thorne, need evidence to do anything?"

Vivienne recoiled, genuinely terrified by the sheer force of his presence. His quiet demeanor since arriving in New York City had almost made her forget he was known as "The Cold King" for a reason.

Still, she stubbornly held her ground, fueled by her own twisted logic. "You're only doing this to avenge Willow for the sake of Arthur Vance, aren't you? But think about it—is it really worth burning a major partnership to the ground just to protect some subordinate's girlfriend?"

She threw the words like a grenade, hoping to provoke him. If things went her way, maybe she could drive a wedge between him and Arthur. Once Arthur lost Silas's backing, Willow would lose her safety net and crash back down to reality.