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Chapter 17
Raymond paused, tilting his head. “Good to see you're lively.”“I am barely holding it together!” she yelled, throwing her hands up in utter exasperation. “I'm drowning in crisis after crisis, and you just keep materializing out of thin air like a bad omen. What the hell do you even want from me now?”He swept his gaze across the wrecked state of the boardroom before pinning her with an easy, unbothered stare.Deborah pointed a sharp finger at the exit. “Look around! As you can see, I am entirely fine. Nobody is actively trying to assassinate me at this exact second. I am breathing. So can you please, for the love of God, just leave me alone? I have enough fires to put out without you adding fuel to them.”Raymond didn't flinch. Instead, a slow, infuriating grin spread across his face.“You know, you really don't have to keep pretending you don't need my help.”She rolled her eyes so hard she nearly strained a muscle. “Here we go again.”“Just say the words.”“Say what?”“Just look at
Chapter 16
Silence stretched across the table.Mr. Zarachi studied her face line by line, searching for any telltale twitch of deceit. He had braced himself for a volcanic eruption, for her to stand up, throw a tantrum, and reject the terms outright.Instead, she was offering a pragmatic, measured excuse.A slow, satisfied smile touched the corners of his mouth. He gave a deliberate nod. “Well, I must say... that is a remarkably mature and reasonable response.”Deborah forced a tight, polite smile. “Thank you for understanding.”“However,” he added, his voice dropping slightly, “I cannot grant you an open-ended timeline. We have far too many gears turning to let this drag on indefinitely.”The smile faltered slightly at the edges. “Of course.”“In light of your explanation, I am willing to give you precisely one week.”Her pulse spiked. “One week?”“Seven days,” Mr. Zarachi confirmed, leaning forward across the desk. “Within that window, you are expected to sever ties with your current fiancé an
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
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