Richard Sterling Empire Novels & Stories

He looks at me confused. “Nothing?” His word is quiet. “Your bank is empty. Your associates have all backed away, and refuse to accept part in your plan. How do you plan to start this without money, without people?” He thinks I am a fool. I made sure there was no way he could do it. He stands, looking pissed off. “I will be back princess! This isn’t the last time I will be here.” I watch as he storms out. I am not wanting the risk his business would bring. The only way I know to stop him is to remove everything he has.

Since then my mother has upped security there are two men standing at my suite’s door now and my sister and brother share a suite with me now for my own safety of course. A door slid open behind us. Russ emerged, his tall frame casting a long shadow across the patio. Russ was 6’1 and had green/blue eyes and his hair was a darker blonde than mine and Riley. Riley looked like a younger version of me. She dyes her hair purple and wears glasses so we don’t look much alike right now. “I told the cheating bastard to stop calling and I blocked his damn number. He’s been using different numbers since then. It’s so fucking pathetic.”

He was wearing an expensive suit that fit him perfectly, but there was something about the way he moved that suggested he was just as comfortable in combat boots. Most striking of all were his eyes - steel gray and intensely focused, like he was seeing right through her. He looked older, but was still handsome. "I'm Adrian Sterling," he said, walking toward her with measured steps. "Thank you for coming." Adrian Sterling. Now she remembered where she'd heard the name. CEO of Sterling Industries, one of the largest private military contractors in the world. Net worth in the billions. Political connections that reached the highest levels of government. And apparently, someone who was intereste

His voice turned colder. “You’re testing me.” Richard nodded. “Yes.” “Why.” Richard’s gaze sharpened. “Because I need to know if you’re strong enough.” Alexander laughed once. It was short. Dark. “Strong enough for what?” Richard gestured toward the massive estate behind him. “The empire.” Victor leaned forward in the SUV. “Here we go.” Richard continued calmly. “You want to inherit the Blackwood empire.” Alexander’s voice was steady. “I already run half of it.” Richard smiled faintly.

Lucian rumbled, his pitch-black eyes entirely devoid of human mercy. "I... I'm her father!" Richard choked out, desperately clawing at Lucian's iron grip. "I own half of Vance Design! You owe me a billion dollars, Sterling! You can't touch me!" Lucian's jaw locked. He tightened his grip, fully prepared to end the man's miserable existence. "Lucian. Put him down." The voice was incredibly soft, perfectly even, and yet it carried the absolute, undeniable authority of an Empress. Lucian froze. He didn't let Richard go, but he turned his head.

she said desperately. Richard hesitated again, his fingers tapping against the armrest. “There is… one way,” he said slowly. Elena frowned. “What do you mean?” Her father leaned forward, his face grim. “I had a meeting today with Damien Sterling.” Elena’s stomach twisted at the name. Everyone knew who Damien Sterling was. He was one of the most powerful businessmen in the country—a billionaire, ruthless in business, feared by his competitors. “What does he have to do with this?” she asked warily.

Richard stole the show completely even though he wasn’t even part of Melody Corporation. Immediately Richard finished making his announcement the media too came in. They were already instructed to take interviews and make sure that the whole world knew that Emily was a powerful woman who had big companies under her name. “Hello Richard.” The reporters greeted, is this the news that you told us to wait for? If that is the case can you tell us the names of these two companies? “One of them is named Emily Corporations while the other is R.E Corporation and it is based in Mombasa. I have wanted to open a company for her for a little while now and it has been a long planning process.”

"If we want to permanently dismantle their empire, we have to neutralize all three. The first is Lord Sebastian Sterling—a British billionaire and former member of the House of Lords. He currently lives in a heavily fortified medieval castle in the Scottish Highlands." ​"Sterling," Adrian murmured, his voice returning to that freezing, flat frequency of the Ice Demon. "He was the one who authorized the kinetic strike on your father's vault in Zurich. He thinks his castle walls can keep him safe from the ghosts he created." ​"He has a private army of sixty mercenaries guarding the estate," Clara said, her eyes narrowing. "The castle is surrounded by high-frequency thermal sensors and automate

"The selling partners were Richard Sterling and Arthur Vane. Kingsley International bought eighty percent of the company's outstanding shares at forty cents on the dollar, effectively stripping Richard Sterling of his design patents and forcing the firm into liquidation." Victoria took the folder from his hands, staring down at Alexander Kingsley's bold, dark signature stamped beside Richard Sterling’s shaky hand on the final buyout agreement. "Ten years ago, Alexander was twenty-eight years old, hungry, and completely ruthless," Victoria said, her voice dripping with lethal satisfaction. "He devoured small firms like bread. He didn't care whose lives he ruined to build his shipping and stee

Damian said, his voice dropping into a low, gravelly register. My breath caught in my throat. "Sterling? Is she related to Julian?" "She is Arthur Sterling’s eldest daughter from his first marriage in France," Damian revealed, pacing toward the glass balcony doors. "The legitimate heir to the European branch of the Sterling empire. Five years ago, before I launched my solo expansion, our families negotiated an alliance. A formal engagement was drafted to combine the Vance deep-water shipping channels with the Sterling European rail network." A cold, sharp knot tied itself in the pit of my stomach. "You were engaged to her."