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Chapt 23: Emergency Board Meeting

Author: Nyx Vale
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-12-28 11:26:21

Hailey's POV

I spent the next two hours buried in work, trying to pretend that the morning hadn't happened. Emails. Reports. Anything to stop replying Maxwell's voice or the way Gio had looked at us like he knew something had fundamentally shifted.

My phone buzzed at noon.

Christina: There's an emergency board meeting, it was called by Denison Walden. It's in an one hour.

My stomach dropped.

Denison, of course it was Denis. He'd been trying to take me down since the day I'd walked into Ramsey
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