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Chapter 190 - Side By Side

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The Eclipse Project Council chamber was designed to intimidate.

Glass walls curved like a crown around the top floor of the Parisian tower, framing the city as if it existed solely to bear witness to the decisions made inside. The table was obsidian-black, polished to a mirror finish, long enough to seat kings, queens, and the people who controlled them. Power lived here. Deals that reshaped industries were born and buried in this room.

Valerie Sinclair entered without pause.

The doors hadn’t even finished closing behind her before the room subtly shifted, heads turning, breaths catching, attention recalibrating. She wore ivory silk and quiet menace, hair pulled back with surgical precision, heels striking marble with confidence sharpened by years of conquest. This wasn’t her first council, but it was her first Eclipse council, and everyone knew it.

She didn’t acknowledge the stares. She never did. Valerie Sinclair didn’t arrive to be admired, she arrived to dominate.

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