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.

by the window, my fingers trailing

the glass vase perched at the

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

I steady it. Instead, I watched it, waiting to see

over on its

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

there,

I

clenched as I reached for my phone, preparing to call Rhys in order to start. tearing through this mess, when

didn't even have time to look before it was shoved closed with the

ricocheting through the room

the actual fuck,

June.

to

learn to be

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

I was the lowest piece

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

left me in the goddamn car all night!" She said, and for

wonder she still looked like

looked up from

that," she snapped. "And when I woke up, I was still in the car! Alone!

Silence.

care, huh? You only care about whatever

She scoffed.

forced my jaw to stay locked, to keep

humorless laugh. "That's all you

I was quiet.

She yelled, a sob escaping

e storm

doing all I could to keep

on

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

too strong, her presence

just

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

snap was instant.

even realized it-my fingers curled around the vase in

blind,