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Chapter 95: The Paternity Trap
Chloe’s breath hitched, her pupils contracting into pinpricks of pure, unadulterated terror. Serena smiled—a cold, cruel, and victorious smile that sealed Chloe’s fate in stone. "My family holds the exclusive global supply monopoly on those composite alloys," Serena revealed with chilling, effortless finality. "Every single ounce of material your company needs to fulfill that contract must pass through my hands. With a single signature, I can flood your warehouses with raw materials... or with a single word, I can cut your supply chain completely dry and watch the Harrington Group choke to death in breach penalties tomorrow morning." Serena stepped back, resting a gentle, possessive hand onto Liam’s shoulder, looking down at Chloe with supreme, untouchable power. "Your company’s life does not belong to your board of directors, Chloe," Serena concluded, her voice echoing like a death sentence. "It rests entirely in the palm of my hand. And from this day forward, every single br
Chapter 94: Serena’s Move
"You chose your boyfriend, Chloe. So let your boyfriend save your company." Liam’s icy, unyielding words echoed across the marble threshold of the Pinecrest Hill duplex, hanging in the mountain air like sharp shards of frozen glass. Chloe felt as though she had been struck across the chest with a heavy timber. Her lips parted, trembling with shock, her manicured fingers clutching her leather designer handbag so hard that the seams strained. She stared into Liam’s dark, detached eyes, desperately searching for even a glimmer of the docile, patient husband who had spent five years enduring her family’s scorn without ever raising his voice. There was nothing. Not a flicker of guilt, not a shred of attachment, and not a single drop of warmth. He looked at her as if she were a stranger begging on the street. The realization that her emotional leverage over him had completely vanished pushed Chloe straight over the edge of rational thought. A toxic cocktail of cornered panic
Chapter 93: Unraveling Pride
The stinging echo of Serena’s ruthless words hung in the chilly morning air like a cloud of pure venom.Chloe stood frozen on the limestone porch of Duplex 18, her face alternating between a mortified, chalky white and a furious, feverish crimson. For years, she had walked through the charity galas and corporate banquets of the upper crust with her head held impossibly high, confident that she was the brightest, most untouchable star of their generation. Yet here, stripped bare by her supposed social equal, every single humiliating domestic truth had been dragged into the open light.Before Chloe could open her mouth to spit another frantic insult, the quiet sound of firm, measured footsteps broke the suffocating tension from within the villa.Liam stepped smoothly into the grand marble foyer.He was freshly dressed in a clean, charcoal-gray cashmere crewneck sweater and dark, tailored trousers—clothes that Serena had quietly arranged for him in the guest suite's walk-in closet, m
Chapter 92: The Goddess at the Door
The violent thudding of Chloe’s knuckles against the heavy glass still vibrated through the crisp morning mountain air when the internal electronic lock gave a soft, high-tech chime. The heavy deadbolt retracted with a smooth, solid mechanical click that sounded distinctly expensive.Chloe drew her breath in sharply, pulling her shoulders back and lifting her chin until her neck felt taut. The blistering reprimands she had prepared during her frantic, high-speed ascent up the switchbacks were lined up behind her teeth like live rounds. She was ready to tear into him the second the panel gave way. She would snatch him by the collar of whatever cheap cotton shirt he had slept in, drag him straight down those pristine stone steps, and remind him that a live-in husband who had eaten the Harrington family's bread for seven years had no right to play games of wounded pride while her corporate shipping lines were burning at the docks!The heavy architectural door swung smoothly inward on
Chapter 91: The Demanding Heiress
The dawn broke over the city in a cold, slate-gray gloom. A heavy autumn mist lingered close to the asphalt, dampening the frantic hum of morning traffic.Inside her black luxury Maybach, Chloe Harrington did not feel the smooth comfort of the heated leather seats. Her dark hair was pinned back in haste, faint dark circles bruising the porcelain skin beneath her eyes. Her fingers gripped the steering wheel so tightly that her knuckles turned white, her diamond wedding ring digging painfully into her flesh.Three hours. She had spent three agonizing hours sitting in the dark of her mansion after Julian hung up, tasting the metallic bitterness of utter betrayal.When legitimate channels had failed, Chloe had tapped every corporate connection the Harrington Group possessed. She had mobilized her private security division, called in administrative favors with the municipal telecom providers, and pulled real-time telematics from the digital payment logs and citywide surveillance cameras
Chapter 90: Drag him!
"Julian, it's an emergency! The Bloodfang Syndicate has completely locked down the northern docks! They’ve impounded thirty containers of our international contract materials! The entire Harrington Group is about to collapse! Did you speak to Boss Tiger?! Did the Wade family's connections clear the dispute?! Julian, you have to call them off right now!"On the other end of the line, there was a long, suffocating silence, broken only by a theatrical, agonizing cough."C-Chloe... cough, cough..." Julian’s voice came through the speaker, but it was weak, raspy, and strained, entirely devoid of the confident, aristocratic swagger he had displayed in the schoolhouse."Julian? What's wrong with your voice?!" Chloe pressed frantically."Chloe... I am so sorry... cough..." Julian groaned weakly, putting on an exaggerated, pathetic performance of immense physical suffering. "I... I can barely breathe. After I left you this afternoon, my injuries took a cat
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