THE WOMAN WHOM HE COULDN'T BREAK
“Effective immediately, Phoenix Global has acquired controlling shares of Knight Biotech.”
The room exploded, gasps, voices, chaos, board members whispered furiously, reports scrambled, Jack went completely white. For the first time, James’s calm cracked.
Mildred turned toward them slowly, then raised her glass. “And this,” she said, her smile sharp and steady, “is only the beginning.” The ballroom dissolved into noise, but Mildred saw only one thing, the look in James Knight’s eyes.
Not anger, not panic, but recognition. As if, in that moment, he understood the truth. She hadn’t come back for business. She had come back for war, and for the first time in five years, the Knights were afraid.