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chapter 190

Author: L.Oyizah
last update publish date: 2026-04-28 23:40:45

Serena

My heart dropped straight to my stomach.

"Say that again," I said.

"Three major contracts," Desmond said, his voice clipped and controlled but only barely. "All three pulled out within a twenty four hour window. The timing is not coincidental, Ma'am. Someone coordinated this."

"Which contracts?"

He listed them. I closed my eyes as each name landed. Those weren't small accounts. Those were relationships Lawrence Global had built over years. Relationships my father had started and I had ma
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