CHAPTER 891: CHAPTER 889: DEALING WITH THE TRAITOR 2

Creak.

The door opened and this time Admire stepped into the room followed by four detectives in tow.

When Diamond saw them, she politely nodded at them and greeted them. "Hello, detectives. I am very sorry for making you so busy in the morning."

The captain politely smiled at her and responded, "We are just doing our job."

Diamond smiled politely at them and shifted her focus to the staff.

"If you know that you have done something that you shouldn’t have done. For example, selling the secret recipes everyone had been working hard to keep under wraps for profit. Then come out and surrender yourself. Maybe I will be lenient," she said to them, her tone very cold.

When the staff heard that, they shuddered with fear.

"Who is it?" they asked wondrously.

When they thought of the overtime, they worked just to get the recipes perfect and to find substitutes for some of the complicated ingredients, the scientists were so angry when they found out that someone was selling their hard work.

Although the recipe wasn’t theirs but belonged to their boss. The fact that they had been racking their brains for a month to perfect it and someone just did that awful thing. They were very angry.

In their line of business, they understood the importance of confidentiality. The work that they do as researchers and scientists couldn’t even be shared to their families and yet someone did that. They were so infuriated.

Diamond watched everyone and waited to see if the traitor would have a conscience and surrender but after waiting for a while, the person acted dead.

Seeing that he didn’t want to choose the easy way out, Diamond turned to the detectives and said to them with a polite smile. "Detectives, the person is not remorseful. Please go ahead and take him. My lawyer Kiara and Executive assistant Nancy will hand all the evidence over to you. They will work with you and give you everything that you need."

Since the other person was playing her for a fool. Diamond would not show any mercy. With that, the fate of the traitor was sealed. At the same time, it made everyone curious who the traitor was and when they saw the bodyguard marching in a certain direction, the staff were scared, wondering if they were being accused wrongly but a certain someone seeing that things weren’t in his favor, jumped to his feet wanting to run away. However, it was too late for him to make any moves.

As a result, he was pinned on the table, and the man started hurling insults at Diamond.

"Umph! How dare you arrest me? Who do you think you are? I am going to sue you for invading our privacy!"

Diamond chuckled as she looked at this man and mockingly responded, "Go ahead and sue. But for now, Mr. Luke, I am accusing you of stealing trade secrets and colluding with a competitor."

This Luke person was so shameless. He had been stealing the beauty cream recipe and selling it bit by bit to this cosmetic company abroad. To think that such a rotten person managed to slip into her company. She didn’t even know who to blame. After all, it wasn’t like Nancy didn’t do her due diligence. The man simply had a treacherous heart and that couldn’t be seen clearly at first.

Thankfully, the many eyes in every company she had put beforehand made it possible to find this traitor. She should thank Agatha for what she did, otherwise, she wouldn’t have thought of checking the records to see if anyone was playing tricks behind her back.

Thanks to the monitoring, Andrea flagged Luke and managed to find the evidence. As for calling the police. She wasn’t afraid of being accused of invading privacy. The FPD already knew about her working with that overseas company and they even contacted the company to have their services. Since she was doing something legal, why should she fear accusation of a traitor?

Moreover, in a place like a laboratory with secret trades, it wasn’t a crime for her to have the place under surveillance. It wasn’t her fault that her cameras weren’t the normal ones. Who made them unable to find them?

Luke was arrested on the spot and Nancy and Kiara both left with the detectives to cooperate with the investigation, thus leaving Diamond with the staff.

However, the tension in the room was tense, but she didn’t mind or care much. After all, she had Kiara announce over a week ago. Those who confess will be shown leniency while those who remain arrogant will suffer the consequences.

"I guess that you have seen what had just happened. As much as I didn’t want to see it happening, we can’t cry over spilt milk.

I have never wronged you. You all live cheaply in houses that I should rent at higher prices but because you are all my staff. I have shown a lot of generosity. Not only that, but I gave you free rein. You have been researching and experimenting. I have been bleeding a lot of money but I understand the great picture. So, I let it go.

However, some of you remain ungrateful and dare to be so bold as to betray me. I hate betrayals the most. So, I hope that you will learn from what happened today and work diligently without causing any trouble.

Some of you should be worried about the information that I have on you. Don’t worry, unless such a situation like today happens, I won’t bother to reveal that." As for the words that weren’t spoken, let them think about it themselves.

It wasn’t like the world didn’t know that she was capable of digging into people’s information at a whim.

"Anyway, I am happy to announce that you who are still seated in this room have passed the ultimate test. You shall receive a new NDA which you all must sign. Those who sign it will continue to work here and those who find it unfair, you shall be compensated. I can’t have you working for me. I hope that you understand it."

Diamond had been wary of such things happening. So, she made several plans to counterattack any action against her. She was grateful that her mind was working pretty well back then. Otherwise, if the real recipe had been stolen, she wouldn’t even know what to do.

Thankfully, she didn’t give these people the real recipe given by the system but a modified, simplified version. Although the effects were good, it wasn’t the same as the original beauty cream that she was using.

So, when everyone heard about that, they broke into a cold sweat but at the same time, they understood what was happening.

During that meeting, everyone who was present signed the NDA and only after that, did Diamond continue.

"I will be sending you the real recipe of the cream that you have been researching. There aren’t a lot of changes so production can start as scheduled. The same is true for the beverages.

However, if you want to see the recipe for the medium and high-grade cream, then more NDAs need to be signed. So, if you feel like you can do it and you are willing to sell your talent or yourself to me for the next decade or so, then please inform the GM. But if not, then don’t be greedy. You can continue to work on other projects.

However, I need to make a few things clear. You all know that my skin is clear and good, right?" she threw a bait as she looked at them.

The female staff couldn’t help but nod their heads.

"Ma’am, could it be that you use the high-grade version?"

Diamond beamed as she looked at the female scientist.

"Exactly. When using it, you don’t even need to add makeup. Moreover, it’s good for any skin type and while using it, your skin will become very good. The results are seen in a few days and depending on how long you want to use it, you can even dilute it without affecting its effects."

She cheerfully promoted the high-grade beauty cream and when they listened to that and comparing to the user in front of them, a lot of them were tempted but they all understood that if they wanted to work on it then they would need to sacrifice a lot.

That wasn’t something that could be decided on that easily and Diamond knew that pretty well.

"I won’t force you into doing anything now. Take your time. Besides, I am not in a hurry to have them produced. We still need to deal with what we have at hand now."

When they heard that, everyone heaved a sigh of relief. They would be at a crossroads if they were forced into it that much.

Moreover, some of them were still scared with what they had just experienced. They needed time to decide whether it was worthy it remaining here or they were better elsewhere.

Diamond didn’t know what they were thinking. Even if they were scared about her actions. She didn’t regret letting them know of what she was holding.

After all, she truly wasn’t planning on dealing with any new traitors in the future. She just wanted to earn money in peace, enjoy her life and have time to date.

If they keep on making problems for her all the time, when was she going to find time for herself?

She has a life to live. Can’t they understand that as well?

Thankfully, the meeting ended on a good note but the staff were still quite shaken.

Diamond being the generous boss she was, gave everyone the day off.

She didn’t want them making mistakes at work that could cost her millions.

They might as well go home, calm down and come back to work tomorrow with a refreshed mind.

As for her, after dealing with the lab matters. She left directly for the 4S shop.

After experiencing such a moment, she wanted her spirits to be lifted and nothing worked better than seeing her precious car she had been waiting for, for months.

With such eagerness in her, she let the driver take her to the 4S shop where the managers were anxiously waiting for her arrival.