"I do not believe that is reasonable," Emily said with a polite smile resting on her lips.
The expression on her face remained gentle and composed, but at that moment, Duke Rizwell finally began to understand something he had failed to see from the beginning of this negotiation.
The young woman sitting before him, whom he had repeatedly underestimated, was not harmless at all. She was a wolf hiding beneath sheep's clothing.
For a brief moment, his eyes shifted toward his butler, Adam.
The proposal they had created together had been based on Violet's earlier declaration that Emily would be handling all matters related to profit distribution and negotiation.
Both of them had made the same mistake. They had looked at her age and her demeanor and assumed that she lacked experience. Confident in that assumption, they had intentionally left several clauses broad and ambiguous, believing those vague terms would naturally benefit them later.
