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Chapter 7

Author: Gold
last update publish date: 2026-05-10 03:14:52

Charlotte’s POV

“The company’s current highest investor is Victor Kane.”

The moment Alexander’s assistant said those words, anger surged through me so quickly that I almost stood from my chair.

“I knew it,” I muttered.

Alexander slammed the file shut and cursed under his breath. “That bastard.”

I reached for the complaint letters immediately and began flipping through them carefully again.

The signatures,the wording and the awkward sentence structures. Everything suddenly made sense.

“He used t
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