Chapter 45

The so-called "Best New Perfumer of the Year" was simply a thief who had stolen the hard work of someone else—and even tried to frame them for it. Regina began to fall apart. She had no idea that Genevieve had so many cards up her sleeve. She begged, "Zach! Save me! Zach, please save me!" The head of the International Perfumer Summit Association walked onstage, his expression solemn. He spoke into the microphone. "I hereby announce that we will be taking back all of the awards that Ms. Sloane has ever won from us. This form of dishonest cheating and business fraud has also made us decide that Regina Sloane will be blacklisted from the International Perfumer Summit Association for good." Forever blacklisted! Those two words were like a decisive stamp on the rest of her career. Regina crumbled to the ground as her legs grew weak. She was ultimately carried out of the room by the guards. … At the same time, Zachary was throwing a fit in his office on the top floor of Lambert Grou