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.

the window, my fingers trailing over the

vase perched at

shouldn't be there. Not so close to falling off the edge of

did I steady it.

over on

move away from crashing. If nothing changed, if nothing was done, I'd

there, letting it sit and

like I

to call Rhys in order to start. tearing through this mess, when the door slammed open with a

look before it was shoved closed with

ricocheting through the room

the actual

June.

my nerves, adding gasoline to the flames

when did June learn

makeup smudged from the night before, still wearing yesterday's

at me like I was the

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for a second-a single

night!" She said, and for another second, I

shit. No wonder

up from

still in the car!

Silence.

whatever it is

She scoffed.

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

laugh. "That's

I was quiet.

She yelled, a

e storm

I said calmly, doing all I could to keep

hell-bent on drawing it

don't have a heart, Kester... You..." She stepped closer, shaking her head in disbelief, "You don't even feel guilty, do you? About anything? About how you

perfume too strong, her presence too loud, her

just too

should've known. You're incapable of caring about anyone but

was instant. Explosive.

moved before I even realized it-my fingers curled around the vase in

blind,