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Chapter 40: The Subtle Threat

Author: Frank J.P
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-11 16:39:38

Seraphina Dubois and Greenlight Ventures weren’t just rising stars anymore. They had become a loud, pounding echo in the background of Jason and Bella’s every move. What once felt like curiosity was now a full-blown pressure.

Seraphina wasn’t just running her own firm. She was copying and mirroring Reed & Co., predicting their moves, slipping in just ahead of them. It felt calculated. Too precise. Too much like George Reed and Helena Vance had left behind their fingerprints in someone else’s game.

Jason threw himself into the rebuilding of Reed International with everything he had. Turning it into Reed & Co. wasn’t just re-branding. It was rebuilding from the ground up. He was facing lawsuits, rewriting company values, defending every decision in front of cynical investors who couldn’t forget his last name. He was trying to cut every bit of his father’s rot from the business. He was running on adrenaline, on guilt, on a burning desire to fix everything his family had broken. It was a
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