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LOYALTY CLAUSE

Aвтор: Grace Pearl
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POV: Nathaniel

The slap still rings in my head.

It is not the sound of it, it is the silence that came after. The kind of silence that turns a room full of relatives into a jury. No one said a word. No one rushed to my defense. Not even Sasha. And that told me everything.

The fucking humiliation of it all

I am not even two sips into my coffee when the alert flashes on my screen. Priority One. Internal memo. Board-issued.

I open it. Read the first few lines.

Then I stand so fast my chair hits the wall.

Cross Industries Board Notification:

Effective immediately, the executive team will begin implementing a Loyalty Clause Audit per subsection C-11 of the internal ethics compliance charter. All relationships with competitive entities must be disclosed. Any breaches or conflicts of interest will result in automatic termination or legal escalation.

In plain English: They are coming for my head.

This isn’t a warning. This is Elena pulling the trigger.

She waited until after the slap. After t
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