CEO’s Surrender: With You, I Can Never Win

Chapter 13

Finley watched on with a cold expression. It wasn’t enough to snatch first place from Tricia. Just like how her half-sister had ruined her reputation in school and caused her to be expelled, she would destroy any chance Tricia had in making a splash in the perfume industry through this competition. Staring straight at Tricia, Finley then said, “Tricia Keith, how daring you are to copy someone else’s perfume formula in the competition.”

Tricia finally found her voice.

“Don’t slander me! This is my recipe. I don’t even know you, so why are you targeting me?”

“Why are you so overwrought if you’re innocent? Slander? Let others be the judge of that. It is easy. enough to prove if what I’m saying is true or not.”

When Finley saw the crowd nod in agreement, she continued, “Many years ago, I got my hands on a bottle of “Sweet Escape” made by a world-famous perfume master, Annie. When Annie was still alive, she published the recipe in a little-known magazine that has since gone out of print. Sweet Escape was never mass-produced because it uses a rare combination of narcissus, tiare, and tuberose. Look up the recipe in the perfumery archive, you’ll find that the recipe Miss Tricia used is exactly the same.”

Someone from the organizing committee checked on it right away and hurriedly whispered the results to the panel of judges.

Meanwhile, Tricia was stunned at the revelation.

Her father had promised her that there won’t be any problems and that the recipe was never published!

How could this happen?

How could this nobody from who knows where suddenly appear and not only steal her prize but also expose her scheme?

innocent naivety. After trapping her in marriage, he had wrung her talented mother dry. Stealing all her recipes and taking all the credit for

her poor mother was ill, that selfish man still forced her to work, holding Finley’s wellbeing over

daughter with the warning that she should not reveal what she

might as well make

telling the truth. Tricia Keith

gaze sent shivers down Tricia’s spine. She cried out, “No! I

the

at her again and instead announced to everyone, “Tricia Keith is found plagiarizing recipes and her prize in this competition is hereby revoked. She will also be

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future Fragrance Competitions under Turner

in shock and her

“No…” Tricia whispered.

You can’t do this!

did she lose to some unknown person but she also lost her

top of that, she was banned by the very person she admired and

was a

seemed like her goal of becoming Mistress of the Turner