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CHAPTER 48

Author: Flasky
last update publish date: 2026-03-17 07:57:56

Eliza's POV

Six months later, I stood in my father's office for the first time since finding his letters.

The building was the same. The view was the same. The desk where he'd spent so many hours still sat in its corner, worn and familiar and full of memory.

But everything else had changed.

Sterling Global had grown under my leadership. Stronger than it had been in years. We'd expanded into new markets, built partnerships my father could only have drea
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