Chapter 455

It was only when Valerie dropped the act that the group realized her arrogance had been nothing more than a calculated provocation. Her threats to make Giselle disappear from C Lab within a year and her comments about Adam needing to improve his professional skills were all part of a performance. All she wanted was to fast-track this assessment so these people would stop wasting her precious time. Adam and Giselle were left speechless by Valerie's maneuver. Marcellus, however, was focused on an entirely different issue. He was supposed to be the dominant force in this room, yet Valerie had hijacked control from him twice in a row. Was this level of sophisticated crowd control really something a 20-year-old young lady could pull off? Valerie didn't have time to care about what was going on in Marcellus' mind. Determined to teach her a lesson, Adam and Giselle presented her with a series of difficult challenges. To enter C Lab, one had to know the ins and outs of the professiona