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CHAPTER ELEVEN

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Work had been busy for Antoine—mergers here and there. Sharks trying to take over the company lingered at the corners of the room.

He loosened the tie around his neck, needing some fresh air as the secretary briefed him on the morning’s developments and handed him the schedule for the day.

He was about to set it aside when he saw the name: Charles.

Damn him. What a betrayer, he thought. He drew a deep breath, knowing he had to remain calm.

Charles was due in an hour, and Antoine didn’t want him to sense any lingering animosity.

“Thank you, Ann, for the briefing. You can leave now.”

Antoine Vale stood at the floor-to-ceiling window of his forty-second-floor office, the city sprawling beneath him like a circuit board of light and steel.

The merger documents lay signed on the mahogany desk behind him—another shark repelled, another empire secured. Yet the victory tasted like ash.

Ann’s voice still echoed in his ears: “Charles, 11:00 a.m., conference room B.”

He loosened
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