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Chapter 117: The alliance
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2026-08-30 22:51:42
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Serena's POVThe forty-eight hours did not pass so much as they bled away, one tight, uncomfortable minute at a time.By ten o'clock on the second night, my eyes burned from staring at the data streams. I shut the laptop, grabbed my coat, and took the private service elevator down to the quiet basement levels. I didn't want to bump into David Chen’s late-staying associates, nor did I want to navigate the formal foyer where security guards logged every exit.I turned the corner toward the garage and stopped.Killian was standing beside his car. He had stripped off his suit jacket, his white shirt unbuttoned at the collar, sleeves rolled loosely past his forearms. He was leaning back against the passenger door, staring straight ahead at the empty concrete wall, his posture lacking every shred of the rigid, untouchable composure he wore like armor upstairs.He looked exhausted. Not just tired, but worn down to the bone, the faint shadow of a bruise still lingering near his hairline from
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Serena’s POVThree days after the evening in the conference room, Rhodes Incorporated’s primary lending consortium sent a formal letter to the board requesting an emergency review of the company’s credit arrangements.I was in Killian’s office when the letter arrived, reviewing the expansion timeline with Louisa, and I watched the moment it landed on his desk and he read the first paragraph and his expression did the thing it did when something confirmed a suspicion he had been hoping would not be confirmed.He passed it across the desk to me without a word.I read it. Then I read it again.The consortium was citing irregularities in Rhodes’ financial reporting, specifically in the risk assessment documentation submitted during the most recent annual review. The irregularities were described as inconsistencies rather than inaccuracies, which was a careful legal distinction that meant someone had flagged something that looked wrong without being able to prove it was wrong, which was ex
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Serena’s POVHe arrived at the office in twenty-two minutes, which meant he had been close by or had driven faster than he should have.I was waiting in the conference room on the fourteenth floor with the report printed and the relevant pages marked and two cups of coffee that were already going cold because I had made them ten minutes ago and then stood at the window looking at the city and thinking about how to do this in a way that gave him what he needed to know without unraveling everything else.He came through the door and looked at me and immediately looked at the papers on the table.“Sit down,” I said.He sat.I pushed the marked pages across the table toward him and let him read.He read the way Dominic read, without asking questions, pulling the information apart methodically, going back to the beginning of a page when something on it required him to reconsider what came before. When he reached the last marked page he stopped and looked at it for a long moment without tur
Sweet Revenge, Mr. CEO Chapter 122: The orchestrator
Serena’s POVThe full report arrived while I was sitting at the kitchen table.I read it on my phone with the screen at the lowest brightness setting because Dominic was still in the house and I had not yet decided how much of this to tell him before I understood it myself.The shell company connected to the burner number on Vivian’s phone traced through three layers of corporate structure to a private equity firm called Meridian Capital Partners. Meridian was a mid-sized firm, not a household name, not the kind of entity that appeared in financial press with any regularity. It operated quietly, which was its own kind of information about the people who ran it.The silent partner my informant had flagged appeared across three of Meridian’s associated holding entities in a non-executive capacity. His name was in the documents but not prominently, the way names appeared in corporate structures when someone wanted to maintain a connection without advertising it.The name was Marcus Webb.
Sweet Revenge, Mr. CEO Chapter 121: Leaving behind fingerprints
Serena’s POVI found out most things that Vivian had done, not directly, not through any confrontation or accusation, but through a piece of information that arrived innocently and yet landed with the impact of a slap that had been designed to leave fingerprints.Louisa sent me a link at seven forty-three AM with no message attached, which from Louisa meant she had decided the content would speak for itself and she did not want to be associated with her own feelings about it.I clicked it from the back of the car on the way to Rhodes.It was an industry newsletter. The kind that circulated among senior executives and board members and the specific category of person who read industry newsletters before eight in the morning because they needed to know what the room knew before they walked into it. The piece was not long. It did not need to be long. It was the kind of writing that did its damage in two paragraphs and then stepped back and let the damage work.The headline was a question
Sweet Revenge, Mr. CEO Chapter 120: The truth unfolds
Serena’s POVDominic found it on a Tuesday.I was in a meeting with the Helix Bridge legal team when my phone vibrated twice on the table in front of me. Two messages in quick succession, which was Dominic’s way of saying this cannot wait. I excused myself, stepped into the corridor, and called him back before I had fully closed the meeting room door behind me.“I found the originating account,” he said. No greeting. We had moved past greetings in the past week. “The one I kept almost seeing and then losing. I found it.”I leaned against the corridor wall. “Tell me.”“The payments that funded the case against you, the ones that routed through David’s shell company, they originate from a private holding company incorporated in Delaware eighteen months before the gala. The company has one director on record.” He paused. “The director is a man named Franklin Rhodes.”I went very still.“Killian’s father,” I said.“Killian’s father,” Dominic confirmed. “Who died fourteen months before the
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Sweet Revenge, Mr. CEO Chapter 2: Pieces out of place
Killian’s POVThe gala was still going.That was the part that didn’t make sense. Three hundred people still laughing, still drinking, still moving through a room that felt completely different to me now, like a house after a fire where everything looks the same but nothing is. The music was still
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Serena’s POV“You really outdid yourself this time, Serena. I have attended every Rhodes event for the past three years and this is by far the best one yet.”I smiled at David Chen, Rhodes CFO and head of partnerships, and raised my glass. “Three months of planning. Every detail matters.”“Three mo
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