Revenge is Best Served… After Reborn

Adler floored it all the way to Burke International.

The security guards at the entrance recognized Sophie and Adler and immediately tried to block their way.

"Ms. Sophie! Mr. Adler! You can't come in!"

"If you don't want any trouble, move!" Adler shouted, slamming the accelerator. The guards scrambled out of the way as Adler's car crashed through the gates, the sound of shattering glass echoing through the air. "Sophie! You go ahead! I'll cover you!"

"Got it!" Sophie replied, jumping out of the car and storming towards the building. The guards, initially poised to stop her, were paralyzed by her sheer determination.

Sophie took the CEO's private elevator straight to the conference room floor. Stepping out, she found the room deserted, save for James.

James sat there, calm and collected, closing his laptop. Colt stood by his side, everything reminiscent

at her, his expression cold.

"Ms. Sophie, the shareholders' meeting just concluded. Mr. Burke was unanimously re-elected as CEO. Since Mr. Odie didn't

on James. "Do you

responded coolly, holding up the share transfer agreement. "They were mine

trouble, was that

gaze. "Mrs. Costello, I don't know what you're talking

know, or

own up to it. If he had, she might have believed it wasn't really him behind it all, that someone else was puffing the strings.

What does

tone was icy. "Mrs. Costello, if you came for the shareholders' meeting, fine. But it's