The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 109

The Carmichael Group was CICI Group's ideal partner, and both Raymond and Carlotta knew it all too well. With Carlotta also aware of Citrine's true identity, it took them barely five minutes to hammer out the details and seal the deal.

Citrine, however, didn't participate in the negotiations. Propping her head on her hand, she drifted off, lost in thought over whether she should buy out the Iverson family if their business went under. She was so absorbed that she didn't even notice the meeting had ended until Raymond called her name several times, snapping her back to reality.

Noticing the furrow in her brow, Raymond asked, "What's on your mind?"

She looked at him, her tone calm. "I was thinking about the Iverson family."

Raymond paused, surprised. Citrine was young, and even if she'd cut ties with the Iversons, he imagined she couldn't be entirely indifferent. As he was searching for comforting words, she continued, "I'm wondering when the Iverson family will finally go bankrupt."

Raymond blinked, taken aback. "Do you really want to see them go under?" The bitterness in her voice hinted at deep resentment.

She met his gaze and answered earnestly, "Absolutely." The Iversons' company, she reasoned, would make a perfect branch office for CICI Group in Havencrest.

But after a moment, she added, "But now's not the time." If they went bankrupt now, it would be letting them off too easily.

darkened, his eyes

all they'd done was slander her and send her abroad, surely

hypnosis session flashed in his mind-the vivid, unsettling vision that felt less like a dream and more like a memory. Every time he recalled it,

taking a sleek black box from

gift," the old man said, his usual sternness softened by a hint

you." Citrine smiled politely and accepted

and a quiet apology for the past. He had never actually harmed her, and she saw no reason to hold a

of his way to be

open it," Weston encouraged, a rare

glanced at him and opened the

and beautiful—a piece that

Citrine

have a good eye," Weston replied, unable to hide his

once bought