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Chapter 82
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2026-06-18 07:03:00Chapter Seventy-Four: The Morality Clause
The emergency board meeting was already in progress by the time I reached the executive floor.I had not been invited. That was the first sign something was deeply wrong. For months I had walked into that conference room with my head held high, Arthur on one side and Marcus on the other, and I had faced down Leo and Cecilia and everyone else who tried to tear me down. Now the doors were closed against me, and through the frosted glas
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