Chapter 315

The shareholders no longer looked at Briar with the same dread.

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At least she was not as merciless as the rumors suggested; she was willing to let the police handle matters. That thought put them at ease–though Edgar’s panic only grew.

“Briar, how dare you! I’m your father, your only family in this world!” Edgar bellowed as he bolted toward the door of the conference room.

His chest tightened with anxiety, and he wondered, ‘Why wasn’t Briar following their carefully laid script?

They had assumed that if they provoked her enough, she would lash out in front of everyone.

And no matter her excuse, striking her father publicly would tarnish her image in the eyes of the shareholders.

That was Edgar’s entire purpose in attending this meeting: to draw Briar into a trap and keep her entangled at the company long enough for the others to delay Ashton.

But all their plotting had gone to waste as Briar showed no sign of being rattled.

And now she was threatening to have him arrested.

He couldn’t remain here another second. He had to escape.


Yet Edgar knew–he could not leave unless Briar allowed it.

Just as he gripped the glass door handle, Briar flicked her wrist. A razor–sharp scalpel whistled through the air, flashing past the shareholders‘ eyes.“Ahhh!” Edgar screamed.

The blade had buried itself in the back of his hand, drawing a crimson stream.

The scalpel trembled where it stuck, and Edgar howled in agony.

fell into

cries of pain, punctuated by the shareholders‘

turned the

with his hands in his pockets, strode toward Edgar, who cowered against the door, clutching

leaving this room until the police

face was ghostly pale as he refuted, “…The Jennings Group only reached its current heights under my leadership. How can taking money from my own

darkened, turning

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he usually projected

the others,

struck

this man wasn’t a saint either. That look, that aura–it was the face of a

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around Briar was just like her–dangerous, ruthless,

chilling gaze, and the open disgust from the shareholders, Edgar’s fear

he found himself praying for the police to arrive quickly.

last, his desperate wish was granted. The

to his

obeyed meekly, allowing himself to

even

casually against the doorway, watching him depart with a faint


to Edgar’s disgrace—and the spectacle of him being hauled away like a parasite–the rest

matter what demands Briar made,

they did. Who

Briar’s hand was still stained with Edgar’s

understood that discretion was the better part

that discretion is the

everything Briar raised in the meeting was rooted in the company’s growth

dividends at year’s end would

an idiot would

without Edgar, concluded smoothly. The investors walked away

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