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Chapter 42: Twenty Minutes

Author: Victor ellis
last update publish date: 2026-07-30 02:30:16

The rest of the night disappeared without sleep. I stayed in my home office, staring at two things lying on my desk. Arthur Bennett’s letter. The acquisition contract. Every time I reached for one, my eyes drifted to the other. One told me to let go. The other told me to keep fighting. Neither gave me an answer.

By the time sunlight slipped through the curtains, I had made one decision. I wasn’t signing anything until I met David Lawson to see what he had for me. If he was wasting my time, I wo
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