The lost heiress never forgiven

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Chapter 286 The Stranger I Thought I Knew

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The truth was, Jonathan wasn’t really like this–except when it came to anything involving Susie. That’s when something in him always shifted, became more rigid, more extreme.

An uncomfortable silence settled over the office. Maddox and Mateo looked uneasy, unsure whether to stay

or go.

Then Sierra spoke.

“Sorry, can I talk to him alone?”

Maddox and Matco exchanged a glance, then stood and left without a word. As they stepped out, Mateo gave her a quiet warning.

“Sierra, talk it through.”

Sierra nodded. Once the door shut behind them, Jonathan finally spoke.

“You heard what we said? Did it bother you?”

“It did.” Sierra looked up at him. He was still the Jonathan she knew, the one she cared about. But what he said earlier… that felt like someone else entirely.

“Sierra, business is war. We’re not a shelter. This fight with the Zach Group–it’s costing us too. We can’t afford to carry their people on our backs.”

He was trying to explain.

“I know that,” Sierra said. She did. She had never expected Jonathan to take responsibility for every employee the Zach Group had laid off.

“Then why are you upset?” he asked, frowning.

Why?

felt like a

moment to find the right words

you said back there didn’t

for the sake of appearances–for political leverage,

getting at. He

“Sierra, I’m a businessman.”

everything from a

Jonathan who lectures on campus. He’s the CEO. This company was built by the few of us from the ground up. I own the

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Sierra knew those

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after the Zach Group so aggressively in the first place–not

herself

she realized she didn’t

That he’d seen the worst of the world. But

good at playing every

professor, he was

a CEO, he

a mercenary too–efficient, detached,

without missing a beat. But she

thought

wasn’t

question surfaced in her

sat beside her, gentle and warm, was that real? Or

She stayed silent.

knew that once those words left her mouth, something between them might break

Finally, she spoke again.

“Do you remember Autumn?”

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