All Chapters of I DATED HIS HALF-BROTHER: REVENGE ON MY EX-HUSBAND : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

The mood in the boardroom was tense, but because of the stock market, this time around. Despite Cassie’s speech at the Gala, the insurance department were panicking."Our premiums have tripled," the financial officer said tersely. "The bombing at the Gala made us high risk. The insurers are demanding we bring in an external crisis management officer to oversee the transition."Cassie sat at the head of the table, tapping her pen. "I am managing the crisis. We arrested the Syndicate leadership.""The Board agrees with you, Miss Stone," Vance said. "But the insurers are not taking no for an answer, so they have appointed a specialist from London. He’s here to audit and predict our financial health."Cassie sighed. "Fine. Send him in. I’ll give him five minutes."The specialist was a tall blond man in a suit that looked too expensive for an auditor. He wore thick-rimmed glasses, and he had a slight limp that he carried confidently. He was handsome in a way that made him seem approachabl

By the time he returned to the office building, it was late at night. The night security shift had just started, so the lobby was quiet and peaceful, which made Aser's entrance even more jarring. He was wet and rough from blood and sweat, unlike the cool Alpha they knew. Behind him walked Matthew, carrying the evidence in sealed paper and a tablet. "Sir!" The head of security rushed forward, hand on his taser. "Alpha Aser, you are barred from the premises." He said as respectfully as he could. Aser didn't stop walking. "Stand down," Aser growled. "Unless you want to explain to her why you stopped the man trying to save the company," Matthew said. Since Mathew was the head of security, the guard had no choice but to listen to him. Aser marched to the elevator and swiped his pass to no avail. "She locked me out," Aser shrugged. Matthew stepped up and swiped his own card. Seconds later, they were on their way up. Aser double-checked everything he needed to present his case

That morning, they gathered in preparation for the hunt. Except this time, they weren't going after Cane, not directly at least. They were after Selene, the witch that gave him so much confidence to come into their lives and disrupt them. With her taken out, Cane would be crippled and flushed out, and they would be waiting to deliver the final blow, making sure he was permanently erased from the earth. Aser sat at the head of the table. He was the only one that could handle this effectively and rationally. On the central table sat the vial of Midnightbane Aser had captured at the reservoir. It glowed a sickly, vibrant purple under the fluorescent lights. "We know what it is," Cassie said, standing beside him at the head of the table. "What we don't know is where it came from." "It’s a plant," Aser said. "Plants need soil. That's a start." "Which means she has a footprint," Matthew added, typing something on his tablet. She moved closer to the vial. "I sent a sample of the to

Miriam had cleared out the executive so Cassie could work in perfect silence. Because she had asked them not to make any move until she was done, everyone, including Aser were sitting ducks. Outside the building, every major media outlet had sent their reporters to camp out in front of the building in hopes of getting a quote from one of the employees or Cassie herself. "Stock is down eighteen percent," Miriam whispered, clutching her tablet as if it were a life preserver. "The board is calling for an emergency vote of no confidence. They want to suspend you, Cassie.""There's no need to add more pressure, Miriam," Aser hissed."Let them vote," Cassie said, her eyes not leaving the screen as her hands flew over codes. "They can't fire me if I prove the evidence is fake before the market closes."Aser stood behind her, serving as her anchor and grounding force."He’s using a bouncing signal," Cassie muttered. "He routed the upload through servers in Russia, Brazil, and... a toaster i

The flame from the lighter was small, but they all knew it could be their undoing. They watched him in silence as he flickered the lighter on and off. Cane grinned at the power he held over them in those moments. His bandages were stained and were in dire need of a change, but that was the furthest thing from his mind at that moment. "Don't do it, Cane," Aser warned, his voice steady, even as his gun remained trained on his chest. "The house is soaked in gas. One light and you burn us all." "I’m already burning, don't you see?" Cane rasped. He tilted his head, and the movement made the bandages slide to reveal rotten flesh. "Can't you smell it, brother? The rot? It’s eating away at me from the inside. I'm a dead man walking, little brother." "We can help you," Cassie lied, taking a step down the stairs. She kept her gun lowered but ready. "Someone can stabilize the spell. If you surrender..." "Surrender?" Cane snorted. "You want me to allow myself to be experimented on. Goddess,