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CHAPTER 31 – THE BOARD MEETING
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2025-12-12 10:56:05CHAPTER 31 – THE BOARD MEETING
(Althea’s POV)The elevator ride up felt like it lasted hours. Every ding of the floor indicator sounded like a countdown, like the universe was warning me of what I would face. I gripped my purse strap so tightly my knuckles whitened, my nails pressing into my palms. My mind spun in a hundred directions, but all of them ended at the same point: Damian.Damian. My husband. My boss. The man who had slowly begun to unspool my world like threads from a fragile tapestry. And now, I was about to sit in a room full of men and women who only saw me as the employee who could be cast aside, silenced, and dismissed.The conference room door loomed in front of me like a wall of glass. I stepped in, carefully, letting my heels click against the polished floor. Everyone was already seated, papers in front of them, laptops open, fingers tapping, eyes darting. A few glanced up at me and smiled politely — bu
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