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

pain, punctuated by the shareholders‘

exhaled heavily, shaking his head. Briar had turned the

calmed the restless shareholders, then, with his hands in his pockets, strode toward Edgar, who cowered against the door, clutching his bloodied hand. Nathan

not leaving

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 company

darkened, turning sharp

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image he usually projected

to the others, only Edgar saw this

struck

either. That look, that aura–it was the

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that everyone around Briar was just like

faced Briar’s cold threat, Nathan’s chilling gaze, and the open disgust from the shareholders, Edgar’s fear

found himself praying for the police to arrive quickly. Otherwise,

wish was granted.

to his feet, relief

meekly, allowing himself

never even

doorway, watching him depart with a faint smile


like a

matter what demands Briar made,

course they did.

when the scalpel in Briar’s hand was still stained with Edgar’s blood on the floor

They understood that discretion was the better

that discretion is the

Briar raised in the meeting was rooted in

quiet, and their dividends at year’s end would

would oppose

smoothly. The investors walked away greater confidence in

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