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Chapter 15: The Welcome Party

Author: Ogwu kosiso
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-06 02:04:18

Dominic POV

I stood on the second floor of the hotel building, my cold eyes fixed on the decorated hall below. Guests kept pouring in, their laughter and wide smiles filling the air. But I knew those smiles. Fake. Empty.

Behind every handshake was calculation, behind every greeting was greed.

Richard called this a welcome party, but it was nothing more than a battlefield dressed in expensive suits...a business hunt for investors.

I clenched my jaw and hissed under my breath. I should never have returned. I thought coming back would mean something, but the one reason that mattered most… she was someone I could never have. So why stay? Why torture myself? But I couldn’t run now...not after I had already announced my return to the company.

“Dom, why are you so angry over such a small party?” Richard’s voice broke into my thoughts.

I turned and shot him a sharp look. He still had the nerve to disturb me. I said nothing and turned back to the hall. None of the guests below even noticed me
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