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Chapter Ten: The Empire Expands
Author: ROONIE
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The storm didn’t break until dawn. By then, half of Milwaukee’s business district had already heard the rumors.

Westhill Dynamics, an almost bankrupt logistics company, had somehow stabilized overnight.

A mysterious investor had poured in cash, restructuring its leadership, replacing its board, and silencing every whisper of corruption that had dogged it for months.

That investor’s name was Landon Hale.

Inside a dim conference suite on the twenty-seventh floor of the Madison Tower, Landon sat
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