OUR UNEXPECTED UNIVERSE
"If your board refuses to concede to these specific terms by the end of this session, my firm will formally withdraw our capital, causing a catastrophic market freeze that your headers cannot absorb."
Portia sat frozen, a sudden, devastating shockwave ripping through her chest.
She had expected confrontation, tears, or a desperate attempt to clear the air—but she had absolutely not prepared for this total, clinical indifference.
Watching Antonia dictate the terms of a multi-billion-dollar international merger with such cold, unbothered precision made Portia realize, with a sickening wave of horror, that the girl who had once wept at her gates was completely gone [finance].
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