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The others snapped out of their dazes as their minds cleared at once.
How could Elspeth be the CEO of Azure Corporation? If she was, then why would she have worked diligently at Winthrop Group? Wouldn’t she have just stayed as the CEO of Azure?
“It’s not up to you to declare whether or not it’s a lie.”
Emma dropped all pretense of niceties as she flashed a cold smile.
“Show us something that proves you’re the CEO of Azure Corporation, then.”
“What if I am?”
“If you’re the CEO of Azure, then I’ll get on my knees and apologize to you!”
Elspeth’s interest was piqued. She stared at Emma in amusement.
“Are you sure you’re willing to apologize to me?”
“Of course. Stop trying to put up a strong front, Elspeth.”
Emma never considered the possibility that she might lose. It was the same previously when she had full confidence she could enter Winthrop Group and drive a wedge between Elspeth and Callum.
Elspeth tapped away on her phone.
No one knew what she had sent, but soon, a man appeared at the entrance to the meeting room.
Everyone knew who this was-Harper Summerfield, the vice president of Azure Corporation.
He saw where Elspeth was seated and walked over with a smile.
“Why did you ask me to come here, Elspeth?”
Elspeth gestured at Emma and cocked her eyebrows.
“She said she doesn’t believe that I’m the CEO of Azure. Go ahead and tell her whether or not I am.”
Harper was unbothered as he said,
“Who the heck is she? You don’t have to care what she thinks. Either way, she’s not the CEO of Azure.”
Emma turned pale at the humiliation she felt.
“Still, if we don’t clear things up now, she’s going to continue running her mouth and causing trouble.”
Elspeth shook her head and said with a reluctant expression,
“Go ahead and tell her whether or not I am the CEO of Azure.”
Harper’s cavalier expression instantly disappeared. He looked at Emma indifferently as he declared,
“She’s the CEO of Azure Corporation. If there’s anything else you’re not satisfied with, feel free to ask me.”
He was rather poised and intimidating when he grew serious.
Emma froze in shock. By now, she could no longer act dumb, even if she wanted to, so she chuckled awkwardly.
“Not at all. It’s good to hear that Elspeth is the CEO of Azure…”
“Oh, that’s right. You just said that you’d get on your knees and apologize to me if I were the CEO of Azure. Are you going to keep your word?”
Elspeth casually brought this up, and Emma’s expression immediately soured.
“Elspeth, we graduated from the same university. Aren’t you being a little too unkind…”
A proud woman like Emma wasn’t about to get on her knees and apologize. She wanted to get out of it by appealing to emotions instead.
“Thanks for reminding me. I nearly forgot about this.”
Elspeth took out a document from the stack of papers in her lap and threw it onto the table.
“Emma Gatling… You’re not Emma Gatling, right?”
Emma’s heart started pounding.
“What are you talking about? How can I not be Emma Gatling?”
“I wouldn’t have thought to look into your background if you didn’t keep emphasizing the fact that you graduated from the same university as me.”
“Emma Gatling was a top student. Her photos can be found everywhere, and you look nothing like her. You stole her identity because you wanted to use her name to enter the Winthrop Group and fool everyone, didn’t you?”
Elspeth hit the nail right on the head. Emma couldn’t say anything in her defense.
It was the truth, after all. Emma had been too confident. She thought Elspeth wouldn’t think to look into things, so that was why she dared to talk about her identity.
Who would have known?
Emma’s eyes hardened as she said,
“What does this have to do with you harming Winthrop Group? Even though my identity was falsified, I never did anything to harm the company.”
At the sight of Emma’s fervent attempts to defend herself, Elspeth declared icily,
“Since you refuse to admit it yourself, don’t blame me for exposing every single thing you’ve done instead.”
Emma was on edge at the thought of the things Elspeth could have discovered.
She was afraid Elspeth might have found out about her deal with Alphascape. Elspeth would surely run her out of the company and might even report her to the police.
150 million… It’s 150 million!
Emma knew she would be heading to prison if the Winthrop Group pressed charges against her!
Thankfully for Emma, she was good at networking, and some of them came to her defense when they saw Elspeth taking such a forceful stance.
“Even though Emma’s identity is a lie, she’s a good person. She helped me out a lot.”
“That’s right. I couldn’t finish my work once, and it was Emma who helped me with it.”
“Emma switched tasks with me so I could take the day off when my son was sick.”
It was clear that Emma had managed to win the hearts of many of those in the room as they began putting in a good word for her.
“Oh? Are you defending her regardless of what she does simply because she helped you before?”
Elspeth wanted to laugh.
“What makes you think I’m the one who caused the company’s crisis?”
These people were ruled by their hearts, not by their reason. Some shied away, but some were still trying to fight Elspeth on this.
“Show us the proof, then. We just think that Emma’s too nice to do such a thing, whereas you’re the CEO of Azure Corporation. Maybe you snuck into the company to destroy us so that there’s one less obstacle in Azure’s future.”
They were not going to see through Emma’s facade if Elspeth didn’t show them the evidence, so she gave the documents to her assistant, who then passed a copy to everyone.
“These are records of Emma’s calls with Alphascape Group. There are quite a number of them, and every number can be linked to one of Alphascape’s senior executives.”
Then, she added,
“Furthermore, Emma gave the owner of the factory 100 thousand to ruin the products, and the owner agreed to do so out of his greed. However, he’s also a coward, so when I said I was going to sue him, he confessed to everything. This is the statement from the owner with his signature and fingerprint.”
Those in the meeting room pored over the documents. After studying the documents for what felt like hours, they had to admit that they had been blinded by Emma. She was nothing like what they thought she was.