Chapter 42The boardroom at Reed Enterprises felt like a battlefield.I stood at the head of the long glass table in the same black dress I had worn earlier, my hands clasped tightly in front of me to hide their trembling. The room was packed with grim-faced executives, lawyers, and board members. Their eyes bored into me some with pity, most with judgment, a few with outright disgust.The large screen on the wall played clips from the leaked video on mute. My face, my body, my submission to Lucian frozen in high definition for everyone to see. The audio of me moaning “Daddy” had already leaked across the internet, but here in this sterile room, the silence made it even more damning.The chairman, an older man named Richard Harlan, cleared his throat.“Miss Harper, thank you for coming on such short notice. As you know, the company is in crisis. The stock has dropped 47% since the video surfaced. Major investors are pulling out. The pres
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