Chapter 4: Power PlayThe silence in the ballroom was suffocating.Damien's face had gone from smug superiority to something darker. His jaw clenched, and I could see his Alpha instincts rising, that need to dominate and control that had crushed me for five years."You forget yourself, Amara," he said, his voice dropping to that tone that used to make me flinch. "You may have put on a fancy dress and some makeup, but you're still the same weak—""Ms. Cross!"A booming voice cut through the tension. The crowd parted as a man in his sixties, silver-haired and commanding, strode toward me with a wide smile.Gerald Hastings. CEO of Hastings International. One of the largest tech conglomerates in the country, worth somewhere in the neighborhood of forty billion dollars.And the same man I'd watched Damien try desperately to schedule a meeting with for the past six months, based on the emails my former pack members kept accidentally copying me on before I'd blocked them all."Mr. Hastings,"
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