Celestial Queen: Revenge Is Sweet When You’re A Zillionaire Heiress

Chapter 973:

Rhys was torn.

He wanted Harlee to be disappointed in him for the sake of his grand plans to expose Anika’s misdeeds, yet he also longed for Harlee not to completely abandon him. This internal conflict was the source of his misery.

Anika, receiving no response from Rhys, slammed the door in frustration. Unable to bring herself to be harsh on him, she resolved to direct her resentment at Harlee. On the 66th floor, all the top executives of the Sanderson Group and the six board members had been waiting in the meeting room for nearly an hour, with no one daring to leave.

Brenton had made it clear that absence from today’s meeting would result in severe consequences.

Though Brenton was currently not in the room, and while the attendees remained seated under his directive, murmurs of discontent were audible.

Ownership of the Sanderson Group was distributed as follows: Lonnie controlled 50%, Brenton held 10%, and the six board members shared the remaining 40%. The top executives of the Sanderson Group only held stakes in the subsidiaries, not in the parent company itself.

board members were known to

visit to review the company’s operations had

time to confront Harlee with the harsh realities of business leadership. They feared that without a strong demonstration of authority, the Sanderson

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had deliberately selected challenging projects to

voicing their grievances but hadn’t yet gotten

commented, “We

her to keep us waiting like this? Young people today lack proper respect!” In reality, the scheduled meeting was still three minutes away from starting. The board members had chosen to arrive an hour early intentionally to make a

is the prized darling of the Sanderson family, after all. Perhaps she feels

this long is torture on my

“Agreed,” another chimed in.

think I was resilient, but this is becoming