#176 “Get Out!”
Alexander sat across from his father at the dining table, the air thick with tension as they exchanged wary glances. His father slid a stack of documents across the table towards Alexander, his expression unreadable.
“What’s this?” Alexander asked, eyeing the papers warily.
“Take a look,” his father replied, his voice cold and calculating.
As Alexander flipped through the documents, his eyes widened in shock and disbelief. The papers revealed a web of deals and agreements between his own grandfather and Sophia’s, detailing the exchange of secrets and favors that had led to the engagement between Alexander and Sophia.
“So, this is why…” Alexander’s voice trailed off, his mind reeling with the implications of what he was reading.
father leaned in close,
be honored. And if you’re not willing to cooperate, well, let’s just say I
his father’s manipulation. “You’re blackmailing me,”
father’s smile widened. “Call it what you will. But rest assured, if you don’t hand over what I want willingly, I’ll have no qualms about exposing everything and destroying your precious business. I am now close enough to uncovering the deals your grandfather made with
from his seat, his fists clenched in fury. “Get out,”
as he stood, collecting the documents and tucking them into his
warning, Alexander’s father turned and left the apartment, leaving Alexander seething with anger and
connected to the secrets his father was so eager to exploit, and he couldn’t bear the thought
had to act fast. Without hesitation, he reached for his phone and dialed his mother’s
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“Stone Enterprise” from the safe. With trembling hands, she opened it, revealing a trove of documents that
transactions and agreements dating back to the establishment of Stone Enterprise, implicating her own grandfather, Christopher, in dealings that
each page for clues. Among the papers, she
and hidden away for decades. But what shocked
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