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Chapter 111: A Crown She Threw Away
The dim, cavernous executive boardroom at the Sterling Group headquarters felt like a tomb.Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the late-afternoon sky over the home city hung dull, slate-grey, and heavy with the promise of rain. Inside, the massive mahogany table—still bearing faint, scrubbed traces of Dennis’s dried blood near the head seat—was completely abandoned. The directors had fled hours ago, shouting about emergency share divestments and hiring legal defense teams before slamming the double doors behind them.Only Selena remained.She sat crumpled in the high-backed leather chair, her trembling fingers pressed against the chilled surface of the table. Her hair was tangled, her eyes bloodshot, and her tailored blazer creased beyond recognition. Her skin looked ashen under the flicker of the wall-mounted auxiliary screen.On that glowing screen, the encrypted satellite feed from Geneva was playing in real-time.Selena’s breath hitched, every shallow inhale feeling like jagged
Chapter 110: The Grand Exhibition
The massive double doors of the private VIP wing clicked shut, leaving Selena weeping pathetically on the distant lobby floor. Alex did not look back even once. Flanked by Marcus, Arencia, and the decorated foreign military attaches, he walked down the heavily secured, red-carpeted corridor that led directly to the grand summit pavilion of the Geneva International Arms Exhibition. The air here was electric, buzzing with the raw power and immense wealth of the global defense trade. Stepping through the final checkpoint, the immense scale of the main exhibition hall unfolded. High, arched glass ceilings reflected the brilliant spotlights illuminating hundreds of sprawling exhibits. Massive banners hung from the steel rafters, representing sovereign defense ministries and global arms conglomerates. Everywhere you looked, high-ranking generals in formal dress uniforms, foreign ambassadors draped in diplomatic sashes, and sharp-eyed intelligence directors mingled in tight, hushed groups
Chapter 109: The Shattered Illusion
Selena took a shaky, stumbling step forward, her tear-stained face lighting up with a pathetic, desperate smile. The wild hope beating in her chest was so intense it made her dizzy. "Alex!" she choked out, her voice trembling with emotion as she reached her hands toward him. "I knew it... I knew you wouldn't let them treat me like this! You still care about me, don't you? Alex, please listen to me, I was so wrong! Dennis lied about everything, he tried to hurt you, and I was too stupid to see it! But I know the truth now! Please, let's just go home. We can fix the company, we can fix our marriage, we can start over—" Alex didn't move. He didn't flinch, and he didn't reach out to catch her hands. Instead, he looked down at her with eyes so cold, so profoundly empty, that the eager words died right in Selena's throat. There was no suppressed love in his gaze. There wasn't even anger, jealousy, or resentment. There was only a vast, chilling void—the way an emperor might look down at
Chapter 108: The Mirage of Mercy
The freezing rain poured relentlessly against the towering glass walls of the Grand Continental Hotel, blurring the neon lights of Geneva into watery streaks. Inside the sprawling, golden-lit lobby adjacent to the summit pavilion, Selena paced nervously back and forth across the polished marble floor. Her expensive designer coat was damp at the hem, and her hair, usually styled to perfection, hung in loose, disheveled strands around her face. Her eyes were red-rimmed and swollen from hours of crying, her makeup smeared into faint dark circles. She had spent the entire afternoon shivering near the private VIP elevators, ducking past foreign delegates and international security details, refusing to leave. She was desperate. She had to see him. After discovering the truth about Dennis pushing Alex into the fuel tanker, after watching her company’s military contract burn to ash, and after realizing that the divorce decree was already binding, Selena felt li
Chapter 107
A sleek, pearl-white long-range corporate jet with tinted windows and reinforced titanium landing gear glided smoothly to a stop before the VIP hangar. The boarding stairs lowered with a mechanical hiss, and within seconds, a figure emerged that made even the elite sovereign guards at the perimeter instinctively stiffen. It was Arencia. She wore a designer power suit, paired with a black silk turtleneck and sharp stiletto heels that clicked against the metal stairs like pistol shots. Her sleek, raven-black hair fell in a polished sheet over her shoulders, framing high cheekbones and dark, fiery eyes that burned with intelligence and loyalty. Under her arm, she carried a heavy, monogrammed leather case containing the finalized international legal audits and global acquisition portfolios for Project Aegis. Without waiting for the escort, Arencia stepped directly into the waiting armored limousine. "To the Commander’s executive suite at the Grand Palais," she commanded in a crisp,
Chapter 106: Bitter Poison
Back in the quiet, climate-controlled luxury of the VIP hospital suite, the scent of fresh white lilies could no longer mask the rancid stench of pure, festering panic. Dennis Doom sat hunched over in the middle of the oversized hospital bed, clutching his smartphone with white-knuckled frenzy. His hair was messy and unwashed, sticking to his forehead in damp clumps. His dark eyes, which had always mirrored an innocent, fragile softness whenever Selena walked into the room, were now wide, bloodshot, and burning with a toxic, unhinged fury. On the flat-screen television mounted against the wall, the live satellite feed from Geneva continued to replay Alex Crown’s grand coronation. There he was—the man Dennis had dismissed for three long years as a spineless, obedient lapdog who only knew how to boil herbal soups and iron women’s blazers—standing at the literal pinnacle of the global defense industry! Eighty billion dollars in sovereign defense allocations! Decorated generals and for
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