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.

everything reminiscent of the old days in Devonport, where James ruled the business world unchallenged. "James, don't you think you owe me an explanation?"

her, his expression

was unanimously re-elected as CEO. Since Mr.

Colt, Sophie zeroed in on James. "Do you have

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

was that your doing?"

Costello,

you don't know, or you just

had hoped 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

know what you're talking about What does Odie's

for the shareholders' meeting, fine. But it's over now. Instead of questioning me, why