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The Art of War
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2026-07-20 23:06:18
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The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride The Impossible Proposal
Chapter 325Zara stared at her phone, convinced she had misread the message.Authorize a complete merger."Pull over," Zara barked at her driver.The armored SUV immediately veered to the side of the rainy Seattle street, idling beneath a flickering streetlight.Zara hit the call button on the encrypted app, pressing the phone to her ear. Ethan answered on the first ring."A merger?" Zara demanded, not even bothering to say hello. "Ethan, are you out of your mind? If I merge Frost Industries into Cole Tech, Victor will gain access to my board, my financials, and my assets! He will swallow my company whole!""He won't," Ethan’s voice was low, raspy, and tightly controlled. "Because you aren't merging into Cole Tech. You are merging with me."Zara frowned, her mind racing. "What does that mean?""Victor currently holds forty percent of Cole Tech’s voting shares," Ethan explained rapidly, the brilliant, cutthroat CEO taking over completely. "I hold forty-five percent. The remaining fifte
The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride The Art of War
Chapter 324The night air suddenly felt thick, suffocating.Zara didn’t flinch. She didn’t scramble away from Ethan like a child caught doing something wrong. Instead, she deliberately adjusted the lapel of Ethan’s bespoke suit, smoothing the fabric with a calm, proprietary grace before stepping half a pace back.Ethan, despite the agonizing fatigue still gnawing at his bones, immediately shifted his stance. He placed himself marginally in front of Zara, a subtle but absolute wall between her and Victor's armed guards."Victor," Ethan said smoothly, his voice devoid of the tremors that had racked his body just moments before. The beta-blockers had kicked in, returning his heart rate to a steady, lethal rhythm. "Are we taking the board meeting outside?"Victor stepped fully onto the terrace, his dark eyes sweeping over them. The shark-like smile was completely gone, replaced by a calculating, dangerous scowl."I was wondering where my CEO and my most stubborn rival disappeared to," Vic
The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride A Shift in the Board
Chapter 323Zara slipped back through the French doors, instantly morphing her expression from a terrified lover back into the icy CEO of Frost Industries.The dining room was buzzing with quiet conversation. Victor was at the head of the table, looking annoyed that his two main guests had vanished. Julian was already back in his seat, his face pale, staring blankly at his half-eaten dessert. Chloe was nowhere to be seen.Perfect, Zara thought.She bypassed the dining room entirely, slipping into the grand hallway and heading straight for the massive, sweeping staircase.She remembered the layout of the Cole Manor perfectly. Five years ago, Ethan had brought her here. They had sneaked up these very stairs, laughing, hiding from Victor’s judgmental glares. It felt like a lifetime ago.Zara reached the second-floor landing and moved quickly down the corridor toward the master suite.She quietly pushed open the heavy oak door. The room was dark, illuminated only by the moonlight filterin
The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride The British Threat
Chapter 322The silence on the balcony was absolute, save for the whistling wind.Julian Mercer, the untouchable, aristocratic king of Europe’s tech sector, looked as though he had just been physically gutted. The color completely drained from his face, leaving his skin a sickly, ashen gray.He stared at Ethan, trying to find a bluff in the man’s steel-gray eyes. But there was no bluff. Ethan Cole was the apex predator of the digital world. If he said he had the encrypted files, he had them."You..." Julian stammered, the smooth British charm entirely shattered. "You hacked a sovereign government’s mainframe to get that data.""I did," Ethan admitted without an ounce of remorse. "I broke thirty international laws before breakfast yesterday just to make sure the man standing next to my queen was clean. You weren't. Now, you belong to me."Zara stepped out from behind Ethan, her eyes wide with shock and betrayal as she looked at Julian. "You embezzled money to build my company? Julian,
The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride The Balcony Confrontation
Chapter 321Ethan went perfectly, terrifyingly still.The wind howled across the terrace, whipping Zara’s dark hair around her face, but Ethan didn't even blink. His steel-gray eyes dilated, a cold, murderous darkness swallowing the irises completely.Julian knows.The realization hit Ethan’s system like a shot of pure adrenaline, overriding the agonizing chemical withdrawal. If Julian knew about Leo, then Julian had the power to detonate the bomb that would send Victor’s assassins straight to his son’s hospital bed."Did he threaten to tell Victor?" Ethan’s voice was no longer a whisper; it was a deadly, hollow rasp.Zara swallowed hard, wrapping her arms around her chest. "He gave me an ultimatum. Next month is the Global Tech Summit in Geneva. He said if I don't go with him, take Leo, and publicly announce our engagement... he will leak the paternity to the press."A low, visceral growl rumbled deep in Ethan’s chest. It wasn't human; it was the sound of a primal apex predator whose
The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride The Poisoned Apple
Chapter 320The trap was sprung.Julian’s words were entirely coded, completely invisible to Victor and Chloe, but they hit Zara with the force of a freight train. He was publicly backing her into a corner. If she didn't agree to his blackmail—if she didn't agree to marry him and take Leo to Geneva Julian would accept Victor’s buyout. And once she was financially isolated, Julian would drop the bomb about Leo's paternity to destroy Ethan.Zara’s fingers gripped her linen napkin under the table until her knuckles turned white.Before she could form a response, a dark, mocking laugh cut through the dining room.Ethan leaned back in his chair, swirling his whiskey glass. He looked bored. Utterly, terrifyingly bored."Five percent?" Ethan asked, his gray eyes sliding lazily toward his uncle. "Victor, are you drinking before noon again? Mercer’s European infrastructure is archaic. His cloud networks run on servers that Cole Tech phased out three years ago. If you give him five percent, our
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