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Chapter 119 — Refusing to Ask
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2026-10-08 03:08:16
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Elara spent the next two days working through the decision, deliberately separating her analysis of Sterling Group’s business position from any feelings she still had about Kael.She gathered the company’s complete financial information and carefully reviewed Harrington’s history with previous acquisitions. She examined employment data, workforce retention statistics from Harrington’s past restructuring efforts, and the usual timeline and scale of the dismantling that followed their successful takeovers.The pattern was consistent and troubling. Harrington did not preserve the companies it acquired. Instead, it aggressively extracted value, selling off divisions, reducing the workforce substantially, and prioritizing short-term shareholder returns over any genuine continuity or long-term strategic value.Elara thought about Sterling Group’s employees, thousands of people whose livelihoods depended on decisions being made now, mostly without their knowledge or involvement. Decisions th
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The information reached Elara during a conversation with one of Sterling Group’s board members, a man who had contacted her directly, hoping to make the company’s case for her support."I'll be honest with you," he said, towards the end of their call, sounding frustrated despite trying to remain professional. "Kael refused to contact you personally about this. His own father pressured him directly, and he still refused. He said something about not wanting to use personal history as leverage."Elara sat with that information for a long moment after the call ended; slowly her understanding of the whole situation started to change.If she was honest with herself, she’d expected that Kael might eventually reach out, given the magnitude of what was at stake for his family's company. She'd prepared herself for that possibility; she had even prepared a composed, deliberate response in her mind for how she might handle a personal appeal from him amid everything else pressing for her attention
I Own Twenty Percent of My Ex Husband’s Company Chapter 119 — Refusing to Ask
His father found him in his office late that evening. The defense strategy meetings had wretched for most of the day, and exhaustion was visible on both their faces as the crisis continued to accelerate."You haven't contacted Elara directly," his father said as he entered the room, and closed the door behind him."No, I haven't."“Why?” His father’s voice carried real frustration now. The careful composure he had maintained during their earlier conversations had given way to something sharper. “She holds the most important undecided position in this entire fight, and you have a personal relationship with her that no one else on this board can match. You’re sitting here while Harrington’s representatives and other board members make their pitches, and the one person who might actually have real influence refuses to even pick up his phone.""I understand the strategic logic," Kael said carefully. "But I'm not going to use our personal history to pressure her into making a business deci
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