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Chapter 72: The Merger — Until It Isn't

作者: Kim castro
last update 公開日: 2026-07-08 14:56:30

The room expected an announcement. They got a reckoning instead.

I began with the merger. That was always the plan and it was the correct plan, the professional ground first, the reason two hundred and twelve people had accepted invitations and made arrangements and arrived at this building at this hour on this morning. I owed the room that much. The pretense of the occasion honored before the occasion became something else.

I presented the terms for eleven minutes. Not with the particular velo
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