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Chapter 15
Deborah stared at Mr. Zarachi as though he had suddenly begun speaking a foreign language.“Excuse me?”The patriarch didn't blink. “You heard me correctly. I said you need to marry my son, Sylvester.”For several agonizing seconds, her brain simply stalled. Confusion, sheer anger, and disbelief crashed into one another behind her eyes as she glanced between Mr. Zarachi and the rigid members of his delegation, half-convinced she was trapped in some grotesque practical joke.Marriage? Was that the grand endgame behind this entire ambush?She had walked into her own boardroom expecting to untangle a routine financial discrepancy. Instead, she had been hit with trumped-up charges of embezzlement, threatened with the total withdrawal of a ten-billion-dollar stake, and now told her only ticket out was chaining herself to a man she wouldn't trust with a pocketknife.When did high-stakes corporate partnerships morph into medieval bride trading?Her knuckles turned white as she crushed the ed
Chapter 14
A cold knot formed tightly in Deborah's stomach. “Mr. Zarachi, please...”“We have already discussed this matter among ourselves, and we have reached a decision.” He cast a brief, cold glance at his delegation before turning back to her. “The Zarachi family is passing a vote of no confidence in your leadership.”Deborah froze, the breath catching in her throat. “A vote of no confidence?”“Yes. We no longer have faith in your ability to manage this partnership.” He shifted back in his chair, crossing his arms. “And that isn't the extent of it. We will formally communicate our decision to every single investor and affiliate under our umbrella. Every organization that put capital into Silverstone Enterprises based on our endorsement will be briefed on what has happened.”He let the heavy silence stretch out deliberately. “We are a family built on integrity, Deborah. We don't sweep things like this under the rug, and we certainly don't pretend everything is fine when the ship is sinking.”
Chapter 13
Mr. Zarachi leaned back in his chair, his gaze locking onto Deborah with unyielding intensity.“When we first received these documents, we thought there had to be a mistake,” he began, his voice flat and deliberate. “We couldn't believe it. We assumed someone had made a clerical error somewhere down the line, which is why we requested this meeting. But your signature is right there, Deborah.”He reached out, tapping the paper firmly with his forefinger.“Your signature is on the official records. That means the figures recorded here aren't just random numbers. They were approved under your authority. So, what the hell is going on? Don't you think we deserve an explanation?”Deborah stared at him, momentarily robbed of speech. She looked down at the sheets again, her mind racing as she tried to make sense of the data.There was a real incident she knew about, but the numbers staring back at her bore no relation to reality. A few months earlier, Silverstone Enterprises had suffered a se
Chapter 12
The Zarachi family was not an ordinary business dynasty.Their name carried absolute weight across every major financial circle, and their reach extended far past the parent companies they owned. Known for their extraordinary investment power, they possessed the kind of capital that could drag a failing startup from obscurity and place it at the very peak of its industry. They could inject tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars into an enterprise, and when they did, the trajectory of that company changed forever.Their influence, however, was a double-edged sword. They could destroy a business just as effortlessly as they built one. A corporation valued in the billions could watch its market standing collapse into nothing overnight if the Zarachis decided to pull their funding. Because of that terrifying financial leverage, most executives treated a Zarachi partnership as a rare privilege they could never afford to jeopardize.Their highest single investme
Chapter 11
“No,” Deborah said, shaking her head with a sudden, sharp sternness. “My phone wasn't on speaker. There was no way you could have heard my conversation.”Meeting his gaze through the rearview mirror, her eyes narrowed. “So how did you hear? How do you know what I was told?”The question lingered heavy and tight inside the car. Raymond remained seated in the back, entirely unbothered, his expression smooth. For a brief moment, he said nothing at all, his eyes simply holding hers in the glass.When he finally cleared his throat, it was with casual ease. “I’m just a lucky guest.”Deborah blinked, caught off guard. “A lucky guest?”He gave a small, lazy shrug. “Maybe I just got lucky.”She stared at him for another second. The casual indifference of his answer irritated her more than a nervous denial ever could; he wasn't sweating, wasn't overexplaining, just sitting there completely detached. Slowly, she shook her head. “I doubt it was.”Raymond said nothing.“I seriously doubt it,” she
chapter 10
At that moment, Deborah's phone started ringing.The sharp, insistent trill cut through the heavy silence inside the car like a knife. Deborah's eyes flicked down to the screen, her jaw tightening as she saw the name flashing across it.She didn't want to answer. She really didn't. Not right now. Not with everything that had already happened today. The assassination attempt had shaken her more than she wanted to admit, even to herself. Someone out there wanted her dead. Someone had sent trained killers after her, and she had barely escaped with her life.And then there was Raymond.This so-called betrothed of hers, sitting calmly in the back seat like he belonged there, like he had every right to be in her life. She didn't know anything about him. Nothing. And yet her father had been so serious, so insistent, acting as if this marriage was already decided, as if her opinion didn't matter at all.She hated it. She hated all of it.But the phone kept ringing, and she knew she couldn't i
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