My Great Escape Led Me to You (Emily Blair) novel Chapter 513

The moment those words fell, a heavy, suffocating silence descended over the courtyard.

Jeffrey Cox’s sneer froze on his lips, his eyes widening with disbelief. His neck creaked as he turned to stare, as if he were some rusted machine suddenly forced into motion. “…What did you just say?”

The tense quiet shattered as the others found their voices.

“Vertex International? You mean the one in the capital? That Vertex International? You must be out of your mind—you must have read it wrong.”

“It’s probably just someone with the same name. There’s no way this Emily Blair is that Emily Blair.”

For the past five years, Vertex International’s name had been everywhere, echoing across the business world. Their short video app had exploded in popularity, raking in cash hand over fist. In no time, both the company’s value and its founder’s wealth had skyrocketed.

Within the tech world, Vertex International was a household name.

But clearly, the people in this courtyard had no real grasp of that world.

They were all born into privilege, pampered since childhood, looking down their noses at anyone they considered beneath them—especially Emily Blair, the daughter of a chauffeur.

To them, Emily Blair could never amount to anything more than a servant. She was destined to work for the likes of them, never to sit as their equal. They had always regarded her with that same condescending gaze.

These trust-fund heirs had a common trait: they were aimless, wasting their days in endless parties and self-indulgence.

Emily Blair recognized every one of them. They were the wildest of the wealthy crowd, notorious for avoiding responsibility and despising anything that resembled real work.

They never bothered with business news, barely paid attention to local economic shifts, and certainly had no clue about the trends in the capital.

No wonder they’d never heard of Vertex International—or if they had, never connected the name to Emily Blair.

Even if they’d stumbled across a headline, they would have dismissed it as a coincidence, assuming it referred to someone else.

One of the women, clutching her phone, cast a nervous glance at Emily Blair. “I thought I’d seen Emily Blair’s name in the news before, but I couldn’t remember where. I just looked it up on my phone… She really is Emily Blair from Vertex International.”

The group stared in stunned confusion.

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