"No," I said, my voice calm and sharp as glass. "You loved what I could do for you. There's a difference."His face twisted. But there was nothing left for him to say. Security flanked him on either side. Guiding him out of the boardroom he once ruled. The man who had humiliated me, stolen from me, and thought I would stay silent now looked like a ghost of himself. Pale, broken, powerless.The doors closed behind him with a heavy finality. A sound like the end of an era.For a moment, I just stood there, breathing in the silence. Margaret placed a hand on my arm. Her expression both proud and unreadable. Smith gave me a slight nod from across the table. The kind of look that said "we did it."But as the board members filed out, murmuring amongst themselves, the weight of it all sank in. I had won. The empire Allen built on lies and my stolen brilliance now belonged to me. And yet, instead of the sweet rush of victory, a chill settled deep in my bones.Because this was only the begin
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