Chapter 654

After hanging up the phone, Manager Sullivan carelessly packed up a few of his things and left the factory.

East Coast.

Melvin sat in his office, staring at the email Mr. Lambert had just sent. The entire timeline was laid out-every detail, every suspicion, all the context. He read it twice, barely blinking.

He never imagined his mother would go this far behind his back, meddling in the West Ridge factory like this.

Then again, maybe he should've seen it coming.

Three years ago, when Sarah handed him control of the Sanders Group, his mother had already started revealing her true intentions-dropping hints, making comments, all nudging him toward taking over. But there was no need to seize anything. Sarah never wanted power. From day one, she'd made it clear she had no interest in running the company. She wanted to be a psychologist. The company had been a burden she was more than ready to pass on.

So what was the point? Did it really matter who held what shares?

He'd fought bitterly with his mother over it back then. It ended with a blowout argument and two full years of silence. He only started talking to her again last year-when she swore she'd stop pushing.

hadn't stopped at

strings to get her hands on Sanders Group. And now she'd even reached into West Ridge. Melvin couldn't help but feel a bitter sort of admiration for the lengths she

replying to Mr. Lambert, he opened the latest renderings

had released an entirely revamped design-something totally different from their old plan. It was clear they were trying to shake off

name Harbour Crescent sparked sarcasm and

better strategy. More originality. The previous plan had already been leaked by the Wilsons, so the surprise factor


that support came from people who wanted to

a lot of it was genuine. They liked Sanders's design. It had

Meanwhile, at Reynolds Corp...

had just gotten off a call with Zachary. In the past few weeks, he'd not only been holding down the company's daily operations-he'd also helped Zachary

tied Reynolds Corp and Wilson Corp together were a tangled web. And untangling that web? That was the biggest job Steven had taken on. But with Zachary caught in an engagement to Vivian, it couldn't be him drawing those

other hand? He could handle it like it was

Zachary—this was Steven. And while she

media stirred things up like they always did, but Steven simply played dumb, shrugging it off with a smile. With pushy journalists, there was only one solution- be even more shameless

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