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Chapter 40: Her Reign Begins

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(Patricia’s POV)

The meeting started right away, but the tension in the room didn’t fade. The executives were still nervous, I could hear it in their shaky voices as they spoke.

Mason sat frozen in his seat. He hadn’t said a single word. His face was blank, his eyes clouded with confusion. Lucy looked even worse... her eyes were red, her lips pressed tightly together. She stared at me like she was trapped in her worst nightmare.

“Can I have the financial report from two years ago?” I asked calmly.

The financial manager stood up quietly, walked over, and placed the file in front of me before returning to his seat.

I flipped through the first and second pages, but something on the third caught my attention. The figures didn’t add up. There were mistakes, and some expenses that made no sense.

“Do you care to explain this?” I asked, raising the document. “Why was twenty percent of the annual income missing from two years ago, and thirty percent from last year?”

The manager rose slowly, cl
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