~024Bloodlines & Boardrooms---"You're telling me this child is going to carry the Louis name?"Margaret Bluefield's voice sliced through the grand salon like glass on marble."Yes," Xavier said calmly, standing with his hands in his pockets, spine straight despite the weight in the room."Unacceptable," Henri Louis said from the opposite end, barely glancing at his son. "Not while the bloodlines are diluted with ambition."Bella, sitting in the center of the two families, felt like a chess piece trapped between two kings - both unwilling to lose and too arrogant to fold.She took a breath."I'm not a virus, Henri," she said. "And this child? It won't be your heir. It'll be ours."Henri's eyes narrowed."Do you even understand what's at stake here, girl?"Margaret bristled. "Watch your tone, Monsieur Louis.""Oh please," Henri snapped. "You Bluefields married into textile fortune and decided it made you royalty. But this-" he waved a hand toward Bella's stomach, "-is not the merger
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