Chapter 166: Helping Lexie Looske's Pharma Plant Break Into the Market, Only to Walk In on a Beauty Fresh from the Bath

The air in the lounge turned painfully awkward in an instant. Lucia Yare's words had barely left her mouth when the door opened and Pierce Looske stepped in. A strange silence spread through the room like fog. Pierce paused in the doorway. Surprise flickered across his face, then smoothed away as if it had never been there. He glanced at Lucia, then at Jade Shadboult. Jade's cheeks went scarlet. She lowered her head at once, too embarrassed to meet his eyes. "Chairwoman Lucia," Pierce said with...