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Chapter 7: Executive Mandate

Author: Dahlia Black
last update publish date: 2026-08-19 20:58:50

The glass-and-steel monolith of Sterling Enterprises rose fifty stories into the gray city skyline, a shining testament to ruthless corporate expansion. For six years, Kaelen had viewed the building as a distant fortress, a place where Arthur and Vance pulled the levers of power while he was kept safely at arm's length, banished to lower-level accounting desks or forgotten administrative wings.

Today, that dynamic died.

When the private executive elevator opened onto the top floor, the hum of h
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