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Chapter 126The nameplate again.*Victoria Chen — CEO, B Corporation.*Sarah reached up and removed the cap. Then the mask. She held them in one hand and used the other to push the hair back from her face, smoothing it as best she could without a mirror. She breathed in. Breathed out. Let the breath go.She thought about what she was about to walk into.Victoria Chen, who had stood behind Ethan at the press event with the composure of someone who had never once doubted which side of a situation she belonged on. Victoria Chen, who had delivered *you signed it yourself* without a flicker of hesitation, who had looked at Sarah on her knees and felt nothing that showed on her face. A woman who had spent her career building B Corporation into something that didn't need to compromise, and who had agreed to this meeting for reasons that had nothing to do with sentiment.Sarah needed to be useful to her somehow. That was the angle. Not sympathy — Victoria wasn't built for sympathy, or at leas
Chapter 125
Chapter 125The lobby was cool and clean and exactly as she remembered it.She had walked through this space as a partner. She had passed the front desk with her name in the system and the easy confidence of someone who belonged on the upper floors. The receptionist had recognised her. The security had nodded. Everything had been frictionless.Now she moved through the same space like a woman trying to be invisible, found a chair along the side wall, and sat.She pulled out her phone.Victoria Chen answered on the second ring."I'm in the lobby," Sarah said quietly."I'll send someone." Brief and direct. The call ended.Sarah lowered the phone into her lap and sat with her hands folded on top of it. Around her, the lobby moved at its usual pace — staff crossing between elevators, a small cluster of visitors at the front desk, the low register of professional noise that belonged to a company that always had somewhere to be.Nobody looked at her.She was just a woman in a chair, waiting
Chapter 124
Chapter 124The ride was twenty minutes of Sarah watching the city move past the window and running the conversation in her head. What to lead with. How to frame what she needed without making it sound like pure desperation, even though it was pure desperation. Whether to go straight to the B Corporation partnership or whether to start further back, somewhere that made her look less like a woman trying to grab a lifeline.She was still working through it when the cab rolled to a stop in front of the building.B Corporation rose above her, glass and clean lines, exactly as it always had. Sarah looked up at it for a moment. A month ago she had walked through those doors with a title and a business card and the particular confidence of someone who believed the ground under them was solid."That'll be one eighty, ma'am.""Of course." Sarah pushed the door open and stepped out, already turning toward the building."Excuse me." The driver's voice came again, sharper this time. "Where do you
Chapter 123
Chapter 123"What do we do?" she said finally. Small, genuine, stripped of all the usual armour.Sarah didn't answer immediately.She thought about Victoria Chen. About the way she had stood there at the press event — unhurried, completely composed, delivering information like she was reading a weather report. *You signed it yourself.* Ice in every syllable. Not cruel, just accurate.Sarah could go to her. It was the next logical move — the only door that wasn't fully closed yet. Go to Victoria Chen, appeal to whatever small space existed between business and personal. Beg if she had to. Guilt-trip if begging didn't work. Try to insert herself back into some corner of the situation before everything collapsed completely.It wasn't a good plan. But it was a plan.She was still turning it over when her mother's expression shifted."Sarah," Mrs. Wilson said, with delicate timing, "you smell. What exactly was the condition of that station—"Sarah turned her head slowly and looked at her m
Chapter 122
Chapter 122At the bar, Caleb pressed the phone against his ear."Mr. Stone." His man's voice came through fast. "Sarah Wilson has been released. Walked out of the station within the last hour."Caleb set the drink down.He glanced across the room — toward the place where Ethan Cole had just been standing — and found it empty. Gone. He turned back to the bar."Where is she now?""Heading home, we think. She'll need time to regroup.""Give her tonight." Caleb's voice had changed — quieter, focused, the club noise suddenly irrelevant around him. "Tomorrow we move. Jake speaks to her first. He gets her inside before she has time to think about other options." He paused. "By the time she understands what's happening, she'll already be part of it.""And if she pushes back?"Caleb thought about Sarah Wilson — the years of watching her move through Boston, untouchable and difficult and entirely convinced she had more choices than she actually did. He thought about what she was walking out to
Chapter 121
Chapter 121"What are you actually here for, Caleb Stone?""What I said." Caleb spread his hands. "The club. A drink. Girls! It's a decent night." He glanced toward the entrance, then back, letting the look linger on Ethan with the deliberate weight of a man making a point he didn't want to have to spell out. "I'll say this though, Chairman — watch that seat. See whether someone like me couldn't fit in it better than you think."He held the look for one more beat.Then he smiled, turned, and walked toward the door.He didn't hurry. He kept his spine straight and his steps even, the way his father had always told him to move when leaving a room — like you owned the ground beneath your feet, whether you did or not.Behind him, Ethan Cole said nothing.That was almost worse.Caleb pushed through the door into the noise and warmth of the club, and stood just inside the entrance for a moment, letting the crowd close around him. His pulse was still slightly elevated. His jaw still held the
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