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CHAPTER 432
Logan looked up. Twelve faces stared back at him, and not one carried sympathy."I made my decision with the information I had." His voice stayed steady. "Clearly, that information was incomplete.""Incomplete?" Gerald laughed. "You are the head of this partnership, and you are blaming your reports? How very convenient. Cockroaches also scatter when someone turns on the light."Logan stood. The room went silent."I am not blaming anyone." His eyes moved across the table. "The responsibility is mine."He walked out before anyone could respond.Richard met him in the corridor with a face like thunder. "The report was available three days ago. Someone buried it.""Someone close enough to keep it from reaching me." Logan's voice was quiet."If I had seen that information, I would have stopped you." Richard's hands clenched. "You made a decision without the one fact that mattered.""I know."Emma was waiting in Logan's office when he returned. She sat in his chair with her hands folded on
CHAPTER 431
The next morning, Logan sat in his office with two files open on the desk and a deadline that would not wait.The strategist had made his move overnight. Imperial's largest partnership was now under threat, and the only way to stop it was to commit resources that Logan had already promised to another company."You have until noon." Richard stood by the window with his arms crossed. "Either you protect the Imperial partnership, or you keep your promise to Brooks Freight."Logan stared at the numbers. Brooks Freight belonged to Walter Brooks, a man who had stood beside him through three difficult years."Brooks Freight is small, but it is stable." Logan's voice was calm. "It can survive a temporary loss.""And the partnership?""If it collapses, Imperial loses thousands of contracts." Logan closed the Brooks file. "I protect Imperial."Richard did not argue. But his jaw tightened in a way that told Logan he did not fully agree.Walter will understand. He built that company from nothing.
CHAPTER 430
"You are always afraid when the truth is inconvenient." Celeste's eyes narrowed. "And you always find the courage to tell it the moment you have no other choice."Vivian flinched. The words landed like slaps."That is not fair." Her voice cracked. "I told you everything I remembered.""You told me everything after Leonard forced your hand." Celeste walked around the table. "That is not honesty. That is a leaking pipe finally bursting."Vivian opened her mouth, then closed it. There was nothing to say that would not sound like another excuse.Celeste turned to her legal director. "What are my options?"The attorney hesitated. "If you cancel the supply agreement, Leonard's contractual advantage triggers a penalty clause. And canceling it would expose the earlier business decision you made when you approved the original partnership."
CHAPTER 429
While Evelyn and Marcus argued over ownership records, Leonard Voss walked into Celeste's office carrying a leather briefcase and a smile that had never once been honest.Celeste did not stand when he entered. She looked at him the way a person looks at a stain that refuses to wash out."I did not schedule a meeting with you." Celeste's voice was flat. "Security should have stopped you in the lobby.""Security recognized the name of the man who just bought a stake in your largest supplier." Leonard placed the briefcase on her desk and opened it. "I thought you might want to see what Vivian has been hiding."Celeste glanced at the folder inside but did not touch it. "Say what you came to say.""Vivian concealed important details about our past." Leonard sat down without being invited. "You have never understood the full extent of her betrayal. She did far more than leak a negotiation schedule seven years ago.""And you have proof.""I have documents." Leonard slid the folder closer. "R
CHAPTER 428
Across the city, Logan sat in his office with Richard's latest report open on his desk. The company holding the disputed agreement had appeared in three separate investigations now. The Grant Group contract. The Holt family ownership claim. And Evelyn's trail of quiet purchases."The company made a business move two weeks ago." Richard's voice came through the phone. "It acquired a small interest in a logistics firm that supplies Imperial Group's northern distribution center."Logan's eyes narrowed. "That is the same pattern Evelyn has been following. Small purchases. No controlling interests. Just enough to gain access to records and ownership chains.""Which means either Evelyn is directing the company, or someone is running the same strategy she uses." Richard paused. "Or she learned it from whoever built this network in the first place."Logan set the phone down and stared at the documents spread across his desk. Evelyn had been closer to the truth than Marcus from the beginning.
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Evelyn arrived at the Morrison Club before Marcus's security team finished their morning shift change. She carried a folder that looked thin but weighed more than anything she had brought to a meeting in years.She had located the company holding the original agreement overnight. But what she found inside the ownership records stopped her cold.The agreement had been divided into several ownership interests, scattered across companies that appeared unrelated on the surface. Each interest was held by a different entity, and no single filing revealed the full picture.Identifying the real beneficiary was like trying to read a book with every other page torn out and handed to a stranger.She was still reviewing the records when Marcus walked in. He did not sit. He stood across from her with his hands in his pockets and his jaw set at an angle that promised nothing pleasant."You have been using my network to run your own investigation." Marcus's voice was low and controlled. "My companie
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