Chapter 1686:

Hamilton’s gaze tracked the jet as it dwindled into a thin silver thread against the sky.

He slumped back into the driver’s seat, wordless, watching a wave of people pouring toward the building. The place looked as battered and displaced as Josh himself — stripped of its former dignity.

Hamilton gripped the steering wheel, only now noticing the tremor in his own hands.

After what felt like an eternity, he reached for his phone, moving as if pulled by invisible strings, and dialed Daniela’s number.

When she answered, his voice emerged raw and hollow. “Daniela, I’m outside McCoy Group. Could you come pick me up?” Something about it felt off. In that instant, Hamilton’s thoughts sputtered to a halt, leaving nothing but a numb void behind his eyes.

The fortune he’d spent decades building vanished, and the company he’d painstakingly grown evaporated overnight. Speech eluded him.

He glanced at his overflowing contact list — old friends, influential business partners, three younger brothers, five sons — six now — yet in this moment of ruin, he couldn’t bring himself to reach out to a single one of them. The only number his trembling fingers dialed was Daniela’s.

up on

Hamilton sat in stunned silence. He switched off his

her full attention on

sharp gust of cold wind swept past as they continued

slowly turned his head, his eyes settling on Daniela’s calm profile. After a long pause, he spoke in a trembling voice. “Daniela, I’ve been swindled out of

on the road, steering


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went on. “I spent my whole life working hard, and now, at this age, someone tricked me out of so much money. I

It was strange.

that day and everything he said to Daniela, shame would creep

had been nearly falling apart in front of his daughter-in-law, all over

the words had come without

dropped. He couldn’t hide how

had to open up to

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