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RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 270
POV: Hazel"Shall we." Vincent's calm invitation echoed inside that small elevator, and I felt every hard won piece of courage I had gathered tonight tighten into something colder and far more determined as I stepped through those doors beside Julian.The ride up was silent except for the soft mechanical hum around us, Vincent watching each of our faces in turn with the unhurried patience of a man who had already decided how this night would end. Diane stood rigid beside Penelope, their earlier alliance now steadying them both, two women who had spent the night discovering how much they had actually needed one another. Robert kept his eyes fixed forward, jaw set, the weight of fifteen years of silence finally settling into something like resolve. Marcus gripped the case of phones like it was the only solid thing left in the world."You seem very confident for a man about to be exposed," I said quietly, refusing to let the silence swallow me whole, my voice carrying farther in the smal
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 269
POV: Hazel"He has already sent his own version of the story." Diane's voice shook as she turned the phone screen toward us, and I felt the fragile plan we had built collapse and reform itself in the same breath, faster than any of us could fully process."What does it say," Julian demanded, already reading over her shoulder before she could answer, his eyes moving fast across the screen."He is claiming Robert altered company documents," Diane said, her voice tight with disbelief. "He is framing this entire night as an attempted fraud orchestrated by a disgruntled former employee and a bitter ex wife trying to reclaim relevance through scandal. He is naming you specifically, Hazel."The words landed like a slap, old and familiar in a way that made my chest tighten with a fury I had spent years learning to control, a fury that tasted almost bitter on the back of my tongue. "He is trying to discredit us before we ever walk into that room," I said slowly. "If the board already believes
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POV: Hazel"Too bad I already know exactly what you are about to walk into." Julian read the message twice, his voice flat with a fury I had rarely heard him allow himself to show, and set the phone down on the table like it had burned him."He is inside our own communications somehow," Reyes said grimly from his post by the door, his gaze sweeping the room as though the answer might be hiding in the walls themselves. "There is no other way he could know our plan this quickly."Every eye in the room turned instinctively toward one another, a silent, awful suspicion passing between us that none of us wanted to say out loud. Marcus's shoulders sagged under the weight of it before anyone accused him of anything at all, the guilt of the night already sitting so heavily on him that this new doubt seemed almost too much to bear. "It is not me," he said quietly. "I know how this looks. I know I already kept one secret tonight. But I swear to you, I have told no one about this room.""No one
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POV: Hazel"It might be enough." Penelope's whispered words hung heavy in the garage air as Diane took the small silver recorder from her trembling hand, and for one strange, suspended moment, five years of hatred between us simply had nowhere left to go."We need somewhere safe to review everything at once," Reyes said, already moving toward the stairwell exit, his voice pulling us all back into motion before the moment could stretch any longer. "Robert's file, Diane's flash drive, and whatever is on this recorder. Vincent will not wait patiently while we decide what to do with all of it."We reconvened twenty minutes later in a small conference room three floors above the garage, blinds drawn, phones silenced, Reyes posted watchfully by the door while the rest of us gathered around a single laptop screen glowing softly in the dim light, its blue-white glow the only real illumination in the room. Robert's hidden file, retrieved from a locked box behind a false panel in an old mainten
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 266
POV: Hazel"Ask Marcus what his own family signed forty years ago." I froze on the stairwell landing, the words hitting me with a force that had nothing to do with Vincent at all, and turned slowly to look at Marcus, whose face had gone the color of old ash."What is she talking about," Julian asked, his voice low and careful, the particular tone he used when he already suspected the answer would hurt someone he cared about, a tone I had heard directed at me once, long ago, in gentler circumstances than these.Marcus opened his mouth, closed it again, and for a long, terrible moment said nothing at all, his eyes fixed somewhere on the concrete floor as though he could not bear to meet any of ours, his hands twisting the strap of the phone case he still carried. "My grandfather worked for the Voss family," he finally admitted, his voice barely above a whisper. "Before he ever worked for the Daniels. I did not know that until three months ago, when an old letter surfaced in my mother's
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 265
POV: Hazel"He says the real vote already started." Six words from a stranger's trembling mouth, and every plan we had built in that cold garage crumbled apart in an instant, leaving nothing behind but raw, unguarded panic on every face around me."That is not possible," Diane said, already reaching for her own phone with shaking hands, her thumb fumbling twice against the screen before it finally unlocked. "The board meeting is scheduled for dawn. Vincent has no authority to move it without formal notice to every shareholder.""Unless he already sent that notice," Marcus said grimly, his own phone lighting up his face with a pale, sickly glow that seemed to drain what little color remained in his cheeks. "I just received an email. Emergency session, called under section eleven of the shareholder agreement, citing what they are calling credible threats to company stability. It starts in six hours."Julian's grip on my hand tightened until it almost hurt, though I did not pull away, be
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