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

the glass vase

be there. Not so close to falling off the edge

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

over on

vase-balanced on the edge, one wrong move away from crashing. If nothing changed, if nothing was done, I'd fall and

I left it there, letting it

like I was about

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

it was shoved closed with the same

ricocheting through the

actual

June.

gasoline to the

when did June learn to

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

I was the

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second-a single second-I didn't give

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

wonder she still looked

from my phone.

still in the car! Alone! Do you have any idea how cold it got?

Silence.

care, huh? You only care about whatever it is that's on that phone,

She scoffed.

to keep my voice level.

a humorless laugh. "That's all you have to

I was quiet.

She yelled, a sob

e storm

calmly, doing all I could to keep away. But

hell-bent on drawing it

are so unbelievable. 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 anything? About

perfume too strong, her presence too loud, her accusations

was just

of caring about anyone but

was instant.

arm moved before I even realized it-my fingers curled

blind,