Todos los capítulos de I Faked My Death & Married His Ruthless Stepdad for Revenge: Capítulo 161 - Capítulo 164

Chapter 162Christopher's POVThe board meeting lasted less than twenty minutes before three more partners walked out, their chairs still turning slightly in the silence they left behind.I sat alone in the empty conference room afterward, staring at the long table, listening to my own heartbeat pound too loud in my ears. Every week, the company bled a little more. Every week, Elena's public backing bought me a little less time than it had the week before.My phone rang. Gabriel."The partners are spooked," Gabriel said without any greeting, straight to business the way he always was. "You need Storm Global's statement renewed again, and this time it needs to be bigger. A press conference. Elena standing beside you, publicly, in front of cameras where everyone can see it.""She's not going to agree to that," I said."Make her agree," Gabriel said. "Or watch your company finish collapsing by the end of the quarter, and take my patience with it."I hung up without answering and sat ther

Chapter 164Enzo's POVI was twelve years old the first time my mother taught me that love and patience were the same thing wearing different names, sitting close beside me in the dark like she was sharing a secret meant only for me.She used to sit with me on the back stairs of our old house, long after Vincent had gone to bed, and tell me stories about the family that came before us — the shipping empire she'd married into, the fortune my father had built on the backs of men who never once questioned where their orders came from, or why."Your brother gets everything first," she told me once, brushing my hair back from my forehead with a gentleness she never showed anyone else, not even my father. "The name. The company. The love, even, though he's never once had to earn it the way you will. That isn't fair, Enzo. But fair isn't how this family survives. Patience is. Remember that, when you're older, when it matters."I believed her completely. I was twelve. I didn't yet understand