Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 168

Chapter 168

"We have a serious problem.

Our financial models project that if Wescor pulls out of Zamford and reinvests in Valor Lante, we'll lose nearly 40% of our stock value overnight.

That's overnight, Kester.

Long term? It gets worse. Wescor holds 28% of our market shares. If they pull out and others follow-which they will-our board will start looking for alternatives. You already know what that means.

They'll vote you out."

More emails came in:

"Valor Lante just secured two new government contracts-both of which we were also bidding for.

"We have a PR nightmare brewing. Journalists are sniffing around our Scotland branch

situation."

Every email, every fucking message, was like a hand tightening around my throat... Another shove toward the edge of a cliff I couldn't afford to fall from.

Wescor pulling out.

Belinzo shutting us out.

Valor Lante taking everything.

My fingers curled into fists, my temples pulsing as I ground my teeth together. This wasn't just competition. This was war. A well-calculated attempt to gut me from the

inside out.

Why?

Because I didn't let him get my sister's pussy?

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And the board-those spineless fucks-if the numbers took a sharp enough dip, they'd turn on me without hesitation. They'd vote me out and hand over everything I built to

some corporate puppet willing to play nice.

I exhaled slowly, pushing away from the bed where I sat. The very air I was breathing was thick with barely restrained fury.

to the table by the window, my fingers

vase perched at the

to

I didn't move it. Neither did I steady it. Instead, I

on its

that vase-balanced on the edge, one wrong move away from crashing. If nothing changed, if nothing was done,

left it there, letting it sit

I

order to start. tearing through

look before it

the room like a

the actual fuck,

June.

to the flames of fury already

when did June learn

smudged from the night before, still wearing yesterday's dress. Her arms were crossed

me like I was the lowest piece

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for a second-a single second-I didn't give a

goddamn car all night!" She said, and

No wonder she still looked

looked up from my phone. "You were

I was still in the car! Alone! Do you have any idea how cold it got? How stiff my whole body

Silence.

care about whatever it is that's

She scoffed.

to stay locked, to keep my voice level. "You're fine,

laugh.

I was quiet.

me, Kester!" She yelled, a

e storm

I said calmly, doing all I

on drawing

You..." She stepped closer, shaking her head in disbelief, "You don't even feel

too strong, her presence

just too

of caring about anyone but your

snap was instant. Explosive.

even realized it-my fingers curled around the

blind,