Chapter 13

Beatrice felt like her career luck had suddenly gone missing. First was the issue with the agent abroad. Pierce had already started to soften, but he was now refusing to answer her calls. Then, there was the issue with the faulty product. The matter of excessive additives had already been suppressed when a blogger suddenly uploaded a video exposing it. The video had gone viral. All the negative publicity Novastar Cosmetics had had in recent years suddenly resurfaced—there was no way to keep things under control at this juncture. Beatrice was going out of her mind dealing with all these issues. She wanted to ask Joseph for help, but he'd blocked her number! That wasn't all. She found that she couldn't view Hannah's social media accounts anymore, which meant she'd also been blocked. Novastar Cosmetics had only gotten to where it was today with help from Quill Group. It was always easier for things to go one's way when one had someone powerful backing one up, after all. She'd gotten m