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Chapter 11: Business Tensions

Marcus's fingers drummed against his mahogany desk as Stanley Chen, head of legal, droned on about shareholder concerns. I watched from the corner office's leather couch, pretending to review quarterly reports while stealing glances at the man who'd turned my world upsi
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