hattan traffic and took Isabelle to an
sprawling loft. A sanctuary. A trut
feet was a welcome shock. She crossed to the industrial kitchen
ating inside the gilded cage of the Lloyd estate, breathing the
te countertop. Darius. She sw
then po
d believe a ridiculous lie
d across the screen. He
te based on Lloyd Group's last quar
stepped away from the p
ity of it made his blood boil. He hurled his phone onto
robes. The gardenia scent clung to her like a second skin. She draped herself over
t. "She's demanding over one and a half
How could she be so greedy? Darius, she crawled out of some forgott
ice he harbored was validated. Every doubt, erased. Daphne
woman with no background, no connections, suddenly claiming she owns a significant stake in your company? She must have forged somethi
line. Believing Isabelle was a criminal was so much easier tha
We won't let her get away with it. We can look into where the money for he
. "We could offer her ten million. That's more than enough for her to live like a qu
. You're always right." He kissed her, finding solace in
ow fragile that
d her as her thoughts drifted back three years. To the crisis. Lloyd Group teeterin
ell companies-and injected the lifeline the company so desperately needed. She h
hem back from the edge of bankruptcy. That algorithm alone was worth more than the entirety of Lloyd
price. A secret deal struck with a desperate M
over one and a half billion dollars without trying to tear her apart f
d toppled regimes on
aptop on her desk. Encrypted. Untraceable. Documents, legal precedents, and
over a contact li
ld be a smoking crater by morning.
sed the
al. She wanted to watch
andscape of power and ambition. The gam
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