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What Happened To Her?

Author: AthenaWrites
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Madden's POV

"...no, Bernard, I don’t care if they want fifty-one percent. They’re not getting it."

I spoke into the phone with the calm precision of a man holding a loaded gun behind his back. But my fury was simmering.

The water in the sink was still running, steam curling up the mirror. I wasn’t even dressed yet, my shirt unbuttoned, hair a mess. But the investors kept pushing, like I didn’t just rebuild their precious empire from the ash heap that I turned into an empire.

“Tell them it’s forty-five or the deal’s off. I’ll go direct-to-market and drown them in our next quarter.”

“Understood.” Bernard replied solemnly, knowing very well that no one's changing my mind.

I stared at myself in the mirror. My eyes were cold with sleepless shadows under them.

A man who’d clawed his way to power and now stood shaking from one kiss he never should’ve given. That kiss was my undoing. I couldn't control myself, neither could I stop the thoughts that were ravaging and tormenting my mind.

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