The Smiths drove back home in total shame. Not a single person in the car spoke for the first ten minutes after leaving the Lincoln Group headquarters.Mrs. Smith sat rigidly in the backseat, her fingers clenched tightly around her handbag. Her jaw remained locked so firmly it looked painful, and every few seconds, her nostrils flared with restrained fury. The image of herself kneeling on that floor kept replaying in her mind over and over again like a curse she could not escape.Eva sat beside her, staring blankly through the tinted window.Meanwhile, Mark drove aggressively, his hands gripping the steering wheel hard enough to whiten his knuckles, while David sat in the passenger seat muttering curses under his breath every few minutes.The atmosphere was unbearable.Finally, Mrs. Smith exploded.“That ungrateful bastard!” she snapped viciously, slamming her palm against the seat. “How dare he? How dare he humiliate me like that in public after everything we did for him!”Eva close

By the time Jamal drove into the house, his entire body felt tight with restrained anger.The confrontation with Andrew replayed in his head relentlessly, every sentence echoing louder the more he tried to silence it.His grip around the steering wheel tightened unconsciously as he drove down the pathway leading toward the mansion. All he could feel was rage, dangerous fury, the type that spreads quietly through a person’s chest and burned slowly.Jamal parked the car more harshly than usual and stepped out almost immediately, slamming the door shut harder than intended.The sound echoed through the quiet mansion.A few nearby staff members startled slightly at the noise, exchanging nervous glances before quickly lowering their heads.Jamal barely noticed them.The doors opened before he reached them, one of the house attendants bowing respectfully.“Welcome home, sir.”Jamal walked past him without responding.The servant blinked awkwardly before quietly stepping aside.He stormed i

Long before the rest of the estate fully awakened, Jamal was already seated inside his home office with several documents spread across the desk in front of him.For the past week, veritas international investors group had occupied nearly every waking thought in his mind.The opportunity alone was enormous.A partnership with Veritas would not only stabilize several ongoing expansion projects within Lincoln Group, but would also strengthen investor confidence in him specifically, something Jamal knew he desperately needed. Although the company had publicly accepted him as the new CEO, there were still many influential people silently waiting for him to fail. He could feel it constantly during meetings, and conferences, even during casual conversations with executives who smiled politely while secretly gossiping about whether a man who had walked out of prison weeks ago truly belonged at the head of an empire.That was why today mattered.A soft knock sounded against the office door be

For the first time in weeks, Jamal had decided to leave work early.Not because the workload was light, far from it. If anything, taking over the Lincoln empire had proven far more exhausting than he initially imagined. Every department needed his attention even when he was still figuring things out himself.But after everything that had happened lately, even Evelyn had practically forced him to take the evening off.“You cannot keep living inside that office,” she had told him earlier that afternoon while dropping files onto his desk. “You need proper clothes too. Half your wardrobe still looks like you’re preparing for bankruptcy court.”And now, driving through the evening traffic with one hand resting lazily against the steering wheel, Jamal found himself thinking maybe she was right.The expensive black suit he currently wore fit well enough, but most of the clothes inside his closet had been purchased in a rush after his release from prison. He needed proper outfits now, clothes

Eva’s hands were still trembling by the time her car pulled into the driveway.The entire ride home had felt like a nightmare she couldn’t wake up from.Her chest remained painfully tight, humiliation clawing at her throat every single time the horrifying memory replayed itself in her mind. Those businessmen staring at her in absolute shock while she stood practically naked in Jamal’s office like some desperate fool.God.Just thinking about it made her stomach twist violently.“How stupid can you be?” she muttered bitterly to herself as she stepped out of the car. “How could you not notice the damn screen?”She slammed the car door harder than necessary before storming toward the house, rage and embarrassment fought viciously inside her chest, each emotion crashing into the other until she could barely think straight anymore.The moment she entered the house, loud voices immediately reached her ears from the living room.“I’m telling you, it’s everywhere already!”“No way…”“Check t