Rose Inside the executive suite, everything was immaculate, quiet, and blindingly bright. I stood at the head of the heavy conference table, resting my weight against the polished wood, a crystal tumbler of a decade old scotch balanced lightly between my fingers. Behind me, the digital video wall glowed with twelve video feeds, displaying the exhausted, tense faces of the Holt Group's international board of directors. They had been dragged out of bed in London, Zurich, Tokyo, and New York for an emergency midnight session, but none of them were complaining now. On the main console at the center of the table, the automated proxy counter sat at a smooth, unimpeachable 54.2%. I had done it. I had broken Damien. For seven total years, I watched my Damien sit in our Arthur’s chair, treating me like a glorified administrative asset while he governed this multi-billion-dollar empire. He looked down on my strategy, starved my departments of voting shares, and dismissed my warning
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