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Chapter 6: The approval of Hawks
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THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 77: The War Room
Silas glanced at the phone, turned it face down again, and kept his pen moving.“So if the legal challenge only buys us two weeks,” Caelum said finally, “we go directly to the shareholder before Viktor’s Thursday meeting.”The senior counsel nodded.“Not through lawyers. I go myself.”The senior counsel looked at him. “Are you sure that is…”“I know what it is.”“It could read as pressure. If the shareholder feels…”“I’m not pressuring anyone. I’m just going to have a conversation.” He stood up and moved to the whiteboard. “Viktor has been talking to this man for weeks. He has been building a relationship. Making him feel like he’s being seen.” He picked up the marker. “While we’ve only been sending documents. That stops now.”Silas sat up in his chair. “Caelum, if you approach him directly and it goes wrong…”“Then it goes wrong and we’d be exactly where we are right now.” He wrote the shareholder’s name on the board. “What else do we know about him personally.”The junior counsel sh
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The paparazzo had been going through the shots for two hours. Most of them had blurry edges, the wrong angle, the subject half-turned away. That was fine.But the third one.He stopped on the third one and just sat there at his kitchen table with his cold tea looking at it.The woman was laughing at something. Head tilted back, completely unguarded. Her left hand was resting on her stomach. Not deliberately. It was natural.And the stomach it was resting on was unmistakably, five or six months pregnant.He pulled up the Crowe article on his laptop. The comparison photos from eight months ago. The same grey eyes, same jaw, and the slight build.He put them side by side with his shot.Completely different hair but that wasn’t a disguise, that was just a Tuesday.He picked up his phone.His editor picked up almost immediately, which meant she was still awake, which meant he wasn’t the only one working late.“I’ve got Arwen Valehart,” he said.She didn’t say anything for a second. “The Rav
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 75: The Bump
It was already twenty-two weeks. Her coat had stopped buttoning.Arwen stood in front of Cora’s bathroom mirror on a Tuesday morning, both hands pulling the front panels together, and they just… didn’t meet anymore.She looked at herself in the mirror for a moment.Then she went to find Cora.Cora looked at the coat, went to a box at the back of her wardrobe and came out with two loose linen shirts and a pair of drawstring trousers that had belonged to her daughter.“She won’t miss them,” Cora said. “She lives in Barcelona.”“Cora…”“Try them on.”She tried them on and they fit. She looked at herself in the mirror again.The bump was there. It had always been there, but now it was… visible. No more hiding it under a baggy jumper or a strategic coat.She put her hand on it.Felt the baby shift slightly under her palm.“Right,” she said to the mirror. “Okay.”-----She’d called the meeting for eleven.The park on Renner Street had a cluster of benches under old trees at the far end, aw
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 74: The Unseen Rival
Viktor Ashbourne could absorb a large setback with something close to grace — redirect, restructure, move on. But small losses irritated him in a specific way. Like something that had no business stopping him had stopped him anyway and he couldn’t immediately work out how.The tech firm acquisition failing was a stone in a shoe.He found out Thursday morning when his legal team called to say that heads of terms for a strategic partnership between the tech firm and the florist had been filed with the district registry Wednesday evening. Joint IP. Shared operational infrastructure. Mission framework legally entangled across both entities in a way that made a clean acquisition of either one effectively impossible without triggering a full dual-entity review.He listened to the whole explanation without saying a word.Then he said, “Who drafted it?”“We don’t know yet. It’s not a standard template. The language is… specific. Whoever wrote it knew exactly what clause they were protecting ag
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 73: The Network’s Test
Arwen knew something was wrong the moment the founder of the tech firm walked into the cafe on Monday.He sat at the counter and put both hands flat on the surface.“Someone is trying to buy us out,” he said.He was one of the newer members of the Archer Network. A small sustainable tech firm that had only three employees, and had been operating for about eighteen months out of a shared space on the east side of the district. He’d come to the network four weeks ago through the co-op owner. She finished the order she was on and set it on the counter for the owner.“When?” she asked.“We got a letter Friday. About an acquisition offer, from a holding company I’ve never heard of.” He pulled out his phone and showed her a photo of the letter. “They’re offering above market rate which sounds good except we’re not for sale and the terms have a clause that dissolves the original mission framework within six months of completion.”She looked at the letter on the screen.“Can I…” She took the
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 72: Viktor’s Onslaught
A call came at six forty-five the next morning.Caelum was already awake. He’d been awake since four, sitting at his desk with the necklace in his hand and a contract he hadn’t read on the surface in front of him. He picked up on the first ring.“Silas?” he said.Silas’s voice was tight in a way it almost never was. “Viktor filed a hostile acquisition notice on Verdant Green Tech forty minutes ago. It went public at six-thirty.”“What?” Caelum put the necklace down. “Say that again,” he said.“He filed against Verdant. The green tech subsidiary.” A pause. “He’s going after it directly.”“He can’t. The regulatory protection...”“He’s not going through the front door. He’s doing it through Verdant’s minority shareholders. Two of them have already signed over their voting rights to an Ashbourne proxy. If he gets a third, he has enough to force a board review and stall every major decision the subsidiary makes for six months minimum.”Caelum was already standing. “Who are those shareholde
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 23: Damage Control
“Call Silas,” Caelum said immediately, his hand finding Arwen’s under the table. “We need to get ahead of this before Viktor can weaponize it.”Marcelline was already reaching for her phone. “I’ll have him here within an hour.”Arwen couldn’t breathe. The signature, the one she’d practiced a hundre
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 20: The Message
“Don’t answer it,” Arwen whispered again, her fingers tightening on his shoulders.The phone buzzed a third time.Caelum reached back without looking and grabbed the phone. He silenced it with one quick motion before tossing it somewhere across the room. They didn't even notice it clatter on the fl
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 15: The Performance
Arwen stood in Caelum’s study, waiting for him to destroy her.He moved to the bar, poured two glasses of whiskey and held one out to her.She took it with shaking hands.“Sit.”She sat.Caelum leaned against his desk. “I’m going to ask you a question. I want the truth.”“Okay.” Her heart was beati
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