"….."
A heavy silence filled the room. Rümeysa stared at the representative on the opposite side of the table without saying anything, as if something inside her had malfunctioned.
"Are you playing some kind of prank?" Elena asked after a minute of awkward silence.
"Can we have a short break? This discussion is heading in a direction we didn't anticipate, so we need a moment to recollect ourselves," Eden, the head legal officer for the motorsport department, said, sensing Elena's anger. He was trying to buy time to calm her down so they could adjust their plans.
"Sure. Let's take a twenty-minute break," the Red Bull representative said before he and his team stood and left the meeting room, leaving Rümeysa and her team alone.
