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Chapter 164

Author: QuillWhisper
last update publish date: 2026-03-06 18:33:26

[The Boardroom Gambit]

The air in the executive boardroom of the St. Claire-Moretti tower felt like it had been sucked out of the room. The mahogany table, long and cold, reflected the faces of twelve men and women who had spent decades under Arthur’s thumb. Now, they were staring into the void of Dante Moretti’s silence.

Dante didn't sit at the head of the table. He leaned against the floor-to-ceiling glass window, his back to the city, his silhouette cutting a jagged shadow across the documen
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