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Chapter Two Hundred and Six

Author: Anney GW
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-04 11:27:04
Vanessa’s POV

I’d been awake since dawn.

Not because of the nausea, that had become background noise by now, but because I couldn’t stop smiling.

The plan was set. The board meeting had been moved up.

None of them, not Maximilian, not his precious prodigal son, knew.

A few phone calls, a few favors.

Men in suits were always eager to please a woman with the right kind of desperation and the right kind of smile.

Six months pregnant or not, I still knew how to turn a weakness into leverage.

By nine a.m., the conference room on the twenty-second floor buzzed with confused murmurs.

Crown Luxe’s board of directors rarely assembled on short notice. Especially not without Maximilian himself calling it.

Perfect.

I adjusted the emerald pin on my blazer and walked in, heels clicking with my chin high.

“Good morning, gentlemen,” I said sweetly. “Thank you for making the time. I know the notice was short, but there’s a pressing matter that requires transparency.”

That word transparency always made
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