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The Kingmaker's Gambit
Author: Llamanel
last update2025-05-21 01:55:03

The city of Santiago buzzed with an underlying sense of urgency as the two forces, seemingly, who were destined for confrontation, prepared for their final showdown.

Alejandro Jiménez, the man who had spent his years in the shadows, was very ready to take control and powers meanwhile,Joaquín Salgado, the suave CEO of Cuatro Mares Corporation, was desperately trying to keep his what was left of his empire from crumbling.

But neither man was prepared for what awaited them and not the way things would unfold, certainly not the third player, the one who had been pulling strings from behind the scenes all along.

Alejandro had felt the stirrings of something deeper in the air—the sense that the endgame was fast approaching, but there was a missing piece, a revelation just out of his grasp. It wasn’t just Joaquín he was up against anymore. There were greater forces at play. Forces that would make or break him. He had his plans in motion, but as he sat in his apartment, the familiar buzz of
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