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Chapter Twenty-Six: Lines Are Drawn

Author: Vickybee
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-04 08:01:24

Wars were never clean.

They were drawn in whispers, signatures, midnight meetings, and choices that revealed who would stand—and who would sell their soul to survive.

By morning, the world had chosen sides.

Aria learned this the hard way when she opened her phone and realized she had become a headline.

**THE WOMAN BEHIND THE VALE SCANDAL**

She blinked.

Once.

Twice.

Then threw the phone onto the bed.

“I wanted to build a marketing career,” she muttered. “I did not apply for international villain status.”

Elena, sprawled across the armchair with a coffee the size of a small child, nodded sympathetically. “Tragic, really. You’re doing amazing for someone being framed as the mastermind of a billionaire coup.”

Damian stood by the window, expression unreadable as he watched security sweep the hospital grounds.

“They’re isolating us,” he said.

Aria frowned. “Who’s ‘they’ today?”

“All of them,” he replied calmly. “The board. Investors. Governments. Anyone who benefits from chaos.”

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