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    If William were easy to bring down, he wouldn’t be William.


    Still, the way he went all out for Ste grated on her nerves.


    She considered contacting Arlo.


    If she couldn’t stop William from going further, Arlo stepping in might be the only option left.


    Mercenaries weren’t afraid of death.


    They carried out missions with the readiness to die alongside their targets.


    William, no matter how powerful, was still just a businessman.


    Could he really protect Ste if it came to that?


    Reaching out to Arlo would be herst resort.


    Once Arlo got involved, William wouldn’t escape unscathed. He might not even survive.


    She wouldn’t take that step unless she had no other choice.


    The ne streaked across the sky and disappeared into the horizon.


    Tomorrow would be another beginning. What it would bring, no one knew.


    Lately, Ste felt like William had changed.


    She couldn’t say exactly how. It was subtle. But he seemed less irritable than before, less sharp around the edges.


    Whenever there was an event in Choria, Luca would send a gown over, and William would bring her along.


    To investors who asked, he gave only vague hints, mentioning they’d be informed if anything noteworthy came up, leaving the exact nature of their rtionship deliberately unclear.


    Ste wasn’t sure what he was trying to say with that.


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    Then again, she and William had been trending nonstoptely. In Choria, people were convinced he was deeply in love with her, that they were destined to be together.


    She knew those rumors would eventually reach Marc. She didn’t know what he thought, and after all this time, she’d stopped hoping for a call from him.


    Still, news of his recent activities kept finding its way to her.


    Sharon and Josie filled her in, of course, but even William would sometimes mention Marc in passing, as if keeping her in the loop without saying too much.


    Every evening at dinner, William would drop casual remarks about Marc signing yet another partnership agreement, about how thepany continued to expand at an impressive rate.


    Ste sat in silence, unsure what kind of response he expected from her, so she offered none at all.


    During this time, she had managed to uncover several of William’s other documents as well.


    But every message she sent out disappeared into a void of silence.


    No matter how desperately she tried, dismantling the foundations of the Briggs Group seemed utterly impossible. Defeat weighed heavily on her shoulders, crushing her resolve bit by bit.


    One afternoon, William was on a phone call in the study when Ste entered with his coffee and caught fragments of his conversation—indistinct words that floated through the air. She made out “big project,” “experiment,” and “key to market expansion.”


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