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.

by his side, everything reminiscent of the old days

glanced at her, his expression cold. "Mrs. Costello, you're

Sophie, the shareholders' meeting just concluded. Mr. Burke was unanimously re-elected as CEO. Since Mr. Odie

Sophie zeroed in on James.

the share transfer agreement. "They were mine to begin

trouble, was that

gaze. "Mrs. Costello, I

it that you don't know, or you just won't admit it?"

James would 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. But James didn'Dadmit anything.

talking about What does Odie's trouble have to

icy. "Mrs. Costello, if you came for the shareholders' meeting, fine. But it's over now. Instead of questioning