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

the glass vase perched at the

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

it. Neither did I steady it. Instead, I watched it, waiting

on

from crashing. If nothing changed, if nothing was done, I'd fall and shatter. Just like it

it there,

like I was

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

look before it was shoved closed with the same force, the

the room like

actual fuck,

June.

nerves, adding gasoline to the flames of

June learn to be this

stood there, hair tangled, makeup smudged from the night before, still wearing yesterday's dress. Her arms were crossed tight

like I was the lowest piece

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single second-I

all night!" She said, and for another

wonder she still

barely looked up from my phone.

that," she snapped. "And when I woke up, I was still in the car! Alone! Do you have any idea how cold it got? How

Silence.

about whatever it is that's on that phone, isn't

She scoffed.

to stay locked, to keep my voice

laugh. "That's all you

I was quiet.

yelled, a sob

e storm

calmly, doing all

on drawing

stepped closer, shaking her head in disbelief, "You don't even feel guilty, do you? About anything? About how you

moved closer, her perfume too strong, her presence

was just too

known. You're incapable of caring about

snap was instant. Explosive.

arm moved before I even realized it-my fingers curled

blind,