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Chapter 366
Elizabeth’s eyes narrowed.That suggestion touched a different nerve entirely.Her parents were not people she turned to casually not for ordinary business issues, not for personal pride, and certainly not for decisions she ought to have handled herself. Involving them meant admitting the scale of the problem. It meant opening the door to judgment, questions, disappointment, control.And yet…Victoria was not wrong.Maybe her parents could move something.Maybe they had access to money, influence, quiet channels, emergency support, or at least the kind of counsel that came from having survived disasters she had not yet faced.“Maybe they may be able to do one or two things,” Victoria said, choosing her words carefully, sensing Elizabeth’s resistance even over the phone. “Maybe they can help bridge something. Or point us toward someone who can.”Elizabeth went to the window and looked out, but she was not seeing the city below. She was seeing the chain of humiliations that might now bec
Chapter 365
Elizabeth stood in the middle of the empty hospital room with the phone pressed hard against her ear, her eyes fixed on Benjamin’s untouched bed, and for the first time in a long time, words failed her.Not because she had nothing to say.But because too many things were colliding in her mind at once Benjamin’s disappearance, the board members’ sudden demand for funds, the possibility of leaks, the exposure of the bank, the memory of her own decisions, and above all the awful, choking realization that she might have walked herself into something she could not easily walk out of.She shook her head even though Victoria could not see her.“Honestly,” she said at last, her voice thinner than she wanted it to sound, “I don’t know what to say.”Her free hand moved to her forehead.“I don’t know what to do at this moment.”That was the truth, stripped bare.For someone like Elizabeth, saying those words was not a small thing. She was not built to admit helplessness casually. Even in private
Chapter 364
Elizabeth pressed her fingers to her temple.In the background of Victoria’s line, she could hear the muffled life of the office—phones, footsteps, low voices. Ordinarily it would have been reassuring, the sound of a machine still running. Now it only made her feel the fragility of it. Every voice in that building might, within hours, carry fear. Every desk might become a node for rumor.“And the accounts?” Elizabeth asked. “What is our immediate liquidity position if we had to satisfy Raphael now?”Victoria inhaled sharply, which was answer enough even before she spoke.“It would hurt,” she said. “Very badly. If it is only Raphael, we can probably maneuver. With strain, but we can maneuver. If it is Raphael plus the due profit distributions, then we are in dangerous territory. If another person joins them—”She didn’t finish, she didn’t need to.Elizabeth finished it in her own mind.If another person joined them, the structure would shake.And if the structure shook at the wrong ang
Chapter 363
Elizabeth was still standing in the middle of Benjamin’s empty VIP room, staring at the untouched bed with a fury that had nowhere to go, when her phone began to ring.The sound cut sharply through the silence.For one irritated second she almost ignored it. She was in no mood to hear anybody. Her nerves were already stretched to the limit, her anger still hot from discovering that Benjamin was gone, his family gone, everyone suddenly unreachable at the exact moment she needed answers. But the phone kept ringing, vibrating insistently in her palm, and instinct—the professional instinct that had been trained into her by years of crisis management made her glance down at the screen.Victoria, her secretary.Elizabeth’s brows tightened.Victoria would not be calling repeatedly at a time like this unless something had happened. Not something small. Not something that could wait for an email or a message. Something immediate.She answered.“Victoria,” Elizabeth said, still breathing hard f
Chapter 362
When the nurse said it, Raymond smiled the way certain men smile when they hear exactly what they expected to hear.“Good,” he said.Then he nodded once, slowly, as though approving a business decision.“Very, very good.”He let his eyes travel over her with open satisfaction, taking in not just her body but the fear she was trying to hide, the uncertainty she was trying to smooth over with compliance, the tremor in the hand she had let fall to her side. He saw all of it, and instead of it awakening any kind of restraint, it seemed only to settle him further into himself.“You are a smart one,” he said. “Very smart. For you to understand what is going on. For you to understand that doing what I ask you to do is going to benefit you in the long run.” He gave a small laugh, indulgent and patronizing. “Not everyone has that kind of sense. But you do.”The nurse managed a faint nod.She said nothing.There was a complicated look in her eyes—part nerves, part calculation, part something da
Chapter 361
“‘No problem, Father. No problem at all.’” Those were Raymond’s words after his father gave him one final look and then walked away.The door shut behind him with a muted, expensive click, and the room seemed to exhale. For a few seconds Raymond kept the same solemn expression on his face, as if his father might somehow still be watching through the walls. Then, gradually, the performance dropped away.A smile spread across his face.It began at one corner of his mouth, then widened into something smug and glittering. He leaned back against the pillows, ignoring the ache in his body, and let the news settle over him in the way wealth and power always had—less as something to be earned than something that confirmed what he already believed about himself.Global Investment.Even the name sounded heavy. Important. World-sized.He repeated it softly under his breath once, as though tasting it.If that contract came through and in Raymond’s mind it already had—everything would change. Or a
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