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Chapter 8 – Gregory’s Pressure

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Gregory’s POV

The grandfather clock in Gregory’s study chimed six times, its steady toll cutting through the hush of the evening. The old man sat in his leather chair, cane resting against his leg, a book opened in front of him. Fire crackled as flames danced in the hearth, shadows dancing along the tall shelves that lined the walls. Books of history, finance, and legacy—every one of them reminders of the empires men like him had built and passed on.

But none of those books mattered more than the heir he demanded from his son.

He leaned back, resting his body on the chair’s backrest, his gray eyes fixed on the flames. Damian was thirty-four now. Old enough to rule, old enough to build an empire that stretched across continents. But Gregory had seen the cracks. He knew his son’s strength, but he also knew his weakness: that cold heart, hardened into stone, could one day fracture under the wrong kind of pressure.

That was why an heir mattered. A child would secure no
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