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The next day came almost as easily as any other. Ethan walked into the office to find the usual bustle already in full swing."Mr. Ethan," Gladdy called, spotting him from across the floor and hurrying over."Yes, what is it?" Ethan asked, his tone nowhere near as tense as the concern written across her face."We've got a bit of a situation," she said, and Ethan raised an eyebrow."What kind of situation?""When we told Ford Group's legal team we wouldn't be reversing the client transfers, they refused to accept it. Now we've got a second lawsuit stacked on top of the first, this time over the clients we won from them the other day.""Then they're being remarkably stupid," Ethan said. "Either that, or desperation's already showing through the cracks. Everything we did was legal, start to finish. They're just grasping for loopholes that don't exist.""How can we be sure they don't exist?" Gladdy asked."Because I already had Vanessa draft every contract, every permit, every clause with
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"The winner of this market is—" Vanessa hadn't finished repeating herself when Williams interjected."We heard you the first time," he said. "But that's not the case here, we haven't said anything wrong. We were still deliberating our answer!"When he saw Vanessa's expression shift into something far more comfortable than understanding, he couldn't help but snatch up the papers again and jab a finger at them."We've looked through the papers," Thomas argued, "and just like Mr. Ethan said, there was no timer dictating when we had to give an answer. So there shouldn't be any penalty for that!""Yes, exactly what he said," Reeves added. "We've combed through this thing and there's no time limit written anywhere. At this point it's starting to look like the whole setup was rigged from the start!"[Ding!] [Rage detected.] [+150 Rage Points.]Even as the points piled up in front of him, Ethan couldn't help the frown pulling at his mouth."That's exactly why I told you not to apply common
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Williams' hand slammed down on the buzzer.Yet, he didn’t say anything immediately prompting the others to react with disdain towards him. "What do you think you're doing? Is that the exact same mistake as last time?" Reeves snapped."No, it's not!" Williams said, raising a finger to silence him. "Listen. If you noticed, there was no timer that started counting down after the buzzer was pressed." He said it slowly, like a man laying out hard-won knowledge.Ethan said nothing, watching in silence, his expression giving away nothing as he waited to see if they'd actually pieced it together correctly.He didn't bother hiding it once they had. "That's correct," Ethan said, and their eyes lit up in shock."There's no timer requiring you to answer within a set window," Ethan spelled out plainly. "You can cross-check the papers you signed earlier. There is nothing in there about it. It's not a trick, and it's not a gimmick and you don’t need to worry about any pop up rules that is not alrea
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Vanessa shifted in her stance the moment she heard Reeves' request.Her brows furrowed slightly with worry as her gaze drifted toward Ethan. Even seated the way he was, calm and seemingly invulnerable.But she still felt antsy because she believed he wasn’t. After all, the very first one had already proven that. And yet, for some reason, his confidence felt almost unshakable.She drew in a slow breath, exhaled it just as evenly, and asked again. "Who's calling first?"The silence dragged just a few seconds, all four men throwing glances toward Ethan, who welcomed the attention without the slightest flicker of discomfort.Ethan stretched his hand out to press down on his own buzzer when Reeves reached for his faster so he could answer first. "Up. Thirty-five percent," Reeves answered almost immediately.Ethan couldn't help but smile. His manipulation worked just well and was sure that reeves actions just now were on impulse and a back fire was definitely inevitable. “Down. Lets say
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"Oh!" The woman blurted out, flustered. "I'm so sorry, I completely misunderstood the situation."“You definitely did,” Venssa said, thoroughly disappointed with the woman's behavior."Please forgive me. Might I have your card, sir?" she asked, forcing a fleeting smile that lasted all of two seconds before Ethan's unmoved expression made it falter entirely.Vanessa looked even more aggravated than before.She hadn't expected such blatant disrespect, not here, and especially not towards Ethan. Still, from the corner of her eye, she kept watching what he was going to do, unsure what actions he’d take next given how unreadable his mood had become.She couldn’t help but notice how fast her heart beat had become as she waited in anticipation.Ethan's stare held steady long enough that within two minutes, the cashier was visibly uncomfortable, sweat beading along her hairline as she avoided his eyes entirely.She had frozen where she stood as if moving an inch would upset Ethan even more.T
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"Hm?" the man asked, feigning innocence, though Ethan had no intention of repeating himself."Do I owe you anything?" the man pressed instead, and Ethan finally let himself take a proper look at him.He was a man in his mid-fifties, with the tip of his hair having a silver tint, dressed in a way that made it obvious money had never once been a question in his life.The longer Ethan studied him, the clearer it became why the man carried himself the way he did — like someone who'd never had to consider that the world might not simply bend around him."No, you don't," Ethan said. "After all, you're going to be saving every single dollar you'd have spent buying that." He tilted his chin toward the fabric still clutched possessively in the man's hands.The man shot him a sneering look, clearly stung by the implication even as he tried not to show it.“Classic stupidity,” Ethan thought, already turning to walk away. It was the kind of arrogance that only came from old money — the assumption
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