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.

walked over to the table by the window, my fingers

glass vase perched at the

there. Not so close to falling

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

on its

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

left it there, letting

like I was

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

even have time to look before it was shoved closed with the same force,

ricocheting through the room like a

actual fuck,

June.

voice grated on my nerves, adding gasoline to

learn to be

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

I was the lowest piece of shit in

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second-a single second-I didn't

goddamn car all night!" She said, and for another second,

shit. No wonder she still looked

barely looked up from my phone. "You

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

Silence.

care, huh? You only care about whatever it is

She scoffed.

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

laugh. "That's

I was quiet.

me, Kester!" She yelled, a

e storm

calmly, doing all I could to keep away. But

hell-bent on

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

closer, her perfume too strong, her presence too

just

of caring about anyone but your

was instant.

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

blind,