The boardroom at Hale Industries buzzed with tension. Jessica sat at the head of the long oak table, Amelie asleep on her shoulder, wrapped in a pale pink cardigan. Her team—Eliza, Miriam, Lucien, and two lawyers—sat around her, silent until she spoke.“I won’t hide,” Jessica said. “They’re trying to spin this like I stole my own child. I won’t play into their hands.”“You’ve already won public sympathy,” Lucien said, sliding a stack of headlines across the table. ‘Jessica Hale Reunites with Lost Daughter.’ ‘Billionaire Heir Faces Custody War.’ “But Eleanor’s team just filed for an emergency federal hearing. They want full custody granted to the state pending investigation.”“They’ll paint you as unfit,” Eliza said. “Use your trauma, your past, even your success against you.”Jessica’s eyes narrowed. “Let them try.”Javier stood near the window, arms folded. “We fight this like we fight hostile takeovers—strategic, surgical, relentless.”Miriam nodded. “Then we weaponize the truth.”J
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