CEO Calls The Waitress A Liar About Speaking 9 Languages — Until Three Words Leave Him Silent
Chapter 6
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He looked at Elara, then at Sterling's table, his gaze sharp and calculating. He spoke to her in crisp, formal German: "Young lady, you seem to possess a keen ear. Perhaps you can settle a debate for us. We are concerned about a potential partnership. The terms seem fair, but something feels amiss."This was it: the moment of truth.Elara knew she was walking a razor's edge. She had to prove her ability, humiliate Thorne and Sterling, and potentially salvage a deal for these strangers, all in one move. She met the German investor's eyes, a silent understanding passing between them. Then she turned her gaze back to Julian Sterling, who was watching her with a look of cold, simmering rage.She would not give him a complex sentence. She would not give him a proverb. She would give him three words—three words she had plucked from the investors' private conversation, three words that would be meaningless to anyone else in the room, but would be a nuclear bomb to the men who spoke them.She spoke them in German, her voice ringing with newfound confidence in the silent restaurant: "Vertragsbruch. Insolvenzrisiko. Sofort."The effect was instantaneous.The four German investors froze, their faces draining of color. The lead investor's jaw literally dropped. They stared at her as if she had just read their minds and broadcast their deepest fears to the world:Breach of contract. Risk of insolvency. Immediately.Julian Sterling didn't understand the words, but he understood the reaction. He saw the raw shock on the investors' faces. He saw his own translator app, still open on his colleague's phone, flash the devastating English translation.He looked from the pale faces of the Germans to the calm, defiant face of the waitress he had just called a liar. And in that moment, Julian Sterling—the titan of industry, the man who always had an answer—went completely, utterly silent.The smirk was gone, wiped clean from his face, replaced by a look of stunned disbelief. He had challenged her to a game of checkers, and she had responded by checkmating him in a game of chess he didn't even know they were playing.The ghost in the apron had just proven she was the most powerful person in the room.