Love beyond the mask ( Whitney )
Chapter 845

"Ugh." Wade was fuming, "For the past couple of months, haven't you been stepping all over Ludwik? Did you really not notice the huge moves he's been making behind the scenes?" Bryce was truly caught off guard!

To him, Ludwik's usual antics seemed more focused on pestering Whitney or slacking off rather than any serious endeavor!

He was kicking himself now.

"Alright, let's get on with the product launch. We've managed to suppress most of the chatter on social media.

And those questioning voices? We've silenced them." Bryce was eager to stabilize the long-awaited profitable situation for the Lutz Group.

Wade picked up the product brochure and walked onto the stage, facing the big screen to start presenting their product.

Suddenly, the display on the big screen changed. What was supposed to be the Patrick Group product interface, turned into a live news broadcast featuring the bold letters of the Hausen Group.

And at the Hausen Group press conference, the man standing at the podium... left Bryce and Jarvis dumbstruck!!

"...Parker?!" Jarvis staggered back in shock!

He hadn't forgotten that he was the one who had hired a bunch of hitmen to corner Parker at a seaside brick factory, decimating Parker's crew and eventually shooting him before dumping him into the sea...

And now, how could Parker possibly reappear out of thin air?

Jarvis's face turned ghostly pale, as if he'd seen a ghost!

Bryce too was in disbelief, frequently glancing at him, lips pursed, "Nolan, didn't you say Parker was dead?"

"Missing for over two months, he had to be dead!" Jarvis's expression was a mix of panic and despair, his gloomy eyes fixed on the big screen, the words Hausen Group hitting him hard, "What does Parker's reappearance mean? Hausen Group, could it be that he...?" Before he could finish, Parker's charmingly smug voice echoed from the press conference on the screen: "Hello everyone. I've heard there's been quite the buzz in the business world last night about Hausen Group, and everyone's curious about who the boss of Hausen Group is?

I've also heard that, especially the Patrick Group and the Lutz Group, have been thoroughly investigating me?

Since you're all so curious, I might as well make a grand entrance!

Yes, I am the President of Hausen Group, and it was I who sold the most advanced aerospace technology to the Lippert Group.

This is the contract I signed with Mr. Lippert, now displayed for all of you to see in black and white."

His calm voice trailed off.

Wade and the others felt as if they had been struck by lightning.

The Patrick Group's product launch had completely turned into Parker's show.

The reporters invited by the Patrick Group were stunned, recognizing Parker, one of them exclaimed loudly: "I know this guy!

He used to work with the Lippert family, a key player for Ludwik, and two months ago he was rumored to have betrayed the Lippert family, leaking chip data, then disappeared.

How did he suddenly become the President of Hausen Group?!"

"I remember Mr. Doonan and Ludwik were thick as thieves, and now Mr. Doonan has started his own company and even brought in the latest technology for Ludwik?"

"How did Mr. Doonan come back from the dead, and how does he now have access to the most advanced technology? What's going on?"

The reporters were in an uproar.

And these questions were exactly the bombs swirling in Wade and Bryce's heads.

Not only did Parker not die!

But he also signed a new tech deal with Ludwik... Bryce wasn't foolish. He had suspected something the night before, and now, he was more convinced that this was a trap Ludwik had set for him and Wade.

After all, Parker was Ludwik's most loyal brother.

But how did Parker acquire aerospace technology?

Bryce's eyes were blazing...

And on the big screen, Parker, as if predicting the shock of those watching, flashed a cunning smile under his sharp glasses, eyebrows raised as he read from his phone: "Since it's a live broadcast, we've got a question from a viewer asking what my relationship with Phineas, the chairman of Inko Group, is?

They noted that both Hausen Group and Inko Group deal in aerospace technology, quite the coincidence?

It's a good question. Chairman Phineas, he's my uncle."

This statement exploded in Bryce's mind, making him stagger back.

Wade's face went through a rapid change of emotions, the veins on his neck standing out in stark relief!

They all understood now!

Parker was helping Ludwik.

Parker, being Phineas's nephew, had started a shell company to switch out Inko Group's technology and then signed it over to Ludwik.

Damn it...

At the same time, to keep them in check, Phineas also signed a cooperation with them in the name of Inko Group.

No wonder, the products developed by the Patrick Group were technologically inferior to Ludwik's.

No wonder at all.

It was a bait-and-switch trap.

"Mr. Patrick... we might have been thoroughly played by Ludwik." Bryce slammed his fist on the table, the impact flipping the microphone on the surface.

The product launch was in chaos, Jarvis's face darkened, and he was completely dumbfounded.

In a scene all too familiar to him, it was just a year ago in Banyan City when he attempted to outmaneuver Ludwik's Skyfaith Group by having Elaine steal a crucial chip. But Ludwik, ever the sly fox, had a trick up his sleeve, unveiling his ace at a midnight press conference that left him, metaphorically, pantsed and rushing back to Emperor City under the cloak of night. And now... Ludwik had played the same trick on Wade!

Only this time, his tactics had evolved. Jarvis gasped, realizing he'd been duped once again.

The journalists below buzzed with excitement.

"Have you seen Mr. Patrick's face? Something's off."

"Of course, it's off. At the Patrick Group and the Lutz Group's product launch, the big screen got hijacked by Parker."

"It looks like a direct attack from the Hausen Group on the Patrick Group! A declaration of war."

"That's a bit off the mark. Didn't you hear Mr. Doonan earlier? He's the nephew of the Inko Group's chair, Phineas. The collaboration between the Inko Group and both the Patrick and Lutz Groups runs deep.

You think it's just the Hausen Group targeting the Patrick Group?"

"So, you're saying Chairman Phineas of the Inko Group is also..."

The reporters speculated until Bryce's face darkened with fury.

His eyes flashed, and his fists clenched tight. "Mr. Patrick. I'm certain, Parker couldn't have come up with such an elaborate scheme on his own; it had to be Ludwik pulling the strings! And to think, Parker, being Phineas's nephew, is practically Inko Group's crown prince... That damn Ludwik, why does fortune always favor him? Why does he always find a benefactor even when he's down and out?

I see it now, the partnership with the Inko Group was under Parker's control all along.

Phineas, he's been playing by Parker's tune the whole time.

Phineas siding with Parker, they've played us for fools!"