Side Chick Era... Over

Sharon murmured softly to herself, “Climb up by stepping on Victoria?”

Thomas’s voice was calm, each word precise and cutting. “Victoria’s starting point has always been higher than

yours

–

-in both resources and connections. Your three brothers have been embedded in the company for years. With their support, she operates with inherent advantage. If you compete with her on conventional terms within the corporate structure, you will lose. You need a different strategy.”

Sharon considered this. “What do you recommend?”

“The business world is no different from a battlefield,” Thomas stated. “The oldest strategies of war apply perfectly. There’s no virtue in chaining yourself to the ‘righteous‘ path. Besides, very few who reach the top get there with clean hands.

“Imagine you and Victoria are bidding on the same major project, and your proposal is objectively superior. Once your brothers catch wind of it, how do you think they’ll ensure Victoria wins?”

He didn’t need to finish. Sharon already knew. They would apply pressure, offer bribes, or make threats. If that failed, they could always call on Jamie or Cole to lean on the decision–makers.

She finally understood what Thomas was implying.

Kalen family, peaceful coexistence with Victoria was never an

impossible, why not use

for now–the three Kalen brothers were the most

detour would be a waste of time and energy, and they would only block

was no way around… she would have to

accepted Thomas’s counsel. She hadn’t returned to

faint smile. “Thomas, you’ve

Thomas was

thought flickered through her mind, ‘What

her brief distraction. He gestured toward her laptop. “What Xavier wrote isn’t useless. You can

realized how close

her desk, facing the computer. He stood beside her, leaning down, one hand on the back of her chair and the other braced near the laptop–effectively caging her between the

of his chest.

other, holding a pen, pointed at specific points

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clean scent of his cologne wrapped around