The words hit me like a punch to the gut. Eva, crying because of me. Our son, smart enough to notice, brave enough to try to fix it. Clara's phone rang. Her face fell as she listened. "Sir," she said after hanging up, "there's an emergency board meeting at Brown Enterprise. They're voting to remov
Chapter 174 Eva's Point of View The Brown Enterprises boardroom felt smaller than I remembered. These walls had witnessed decades of decisions that shaped our company's future, my father's legacy, my mother's dreams, our family's history. Now, the familiar mahogany paneling and floor-to-ceiling wi
Chapter 175 Eva's Point of View The voice belonged to Marcus Thompson. My father's lawyer and more importantly, his friend of thirty years strode into the boardroom with Max at his side. Something was different about Marcus. His usually pristine appearance showed signs of strain, his silver hair s
Chapter 176 Eva's Point of View The tension in the boardroom could have been cut with a knife. Marcus Thompson stood tall, his earlier exhaustion seemingly forgotten as he faced Emily across the polished mahogany table. The tremor in his hands had disappeared, replaced by a steady certainty that m
Chapter 177 Eva's Point of View My hands were shaking as I looked across the boardroom table at Emily and Sara. The board members sat frozen in their leather chairs, nobody daring to move. The silence was so thick I could hear the old clock on the wall ticking away, marking each painful second.
Chapter 178 Eva's Point of View My heart pounded against my ribs like a trapped bird as the lead officer stepped forward, pulling out a folded paper from his jacket. Every beat seemed to echo in my ears, mixing with the deafening silence that had fallen over the boardroom. Emily's face turned ghos
Chapter 179 Eva's Point of View The lawyer stood before me, his hands clasped together, his expression calm yet resolute. His presence in the room felt like a lifeline, a thread connecting me to the truth I had been denied for so long. It was surreal to finally stand on the edge of justice, to hea
Chapter 180 The front door creaked open, and Leo tiptoed inside, his small, polished shoes barely making a sound against the marble floor. His heart raced as he glanced around, trying to make his way past the foyer unnoticed. He had barely made it past the entryway when a voice rang out, sharp and
Chapter 212 Louis point of view I watched Eva leave early again through the glass walls of my office, her heels clicking against the marble floor with determined strides. Always rushing home to those children. Always putting family before business. Just like her father, too soft, too sentimental.
Chapter 211 Eva's point of view The front door hadn't even fully opened when four small bodies collided with mine, nearly knocking me backward. Small arms wrapped around my waist and legs, excited voices calling out "Mommy!" in a chaotic chorus that made my heart swell. "Careful, you'll knock Mo
Chapter 210 Eva's Point of View I'd been staring at the same paragraph for the past ten minutes, my mind refusing to focus on the merger details that should have been my priority. "Mrs. Brown?" Mia's voice pulled me from my thoughts. She stood in the doorway, holding an elaborate arrangement of r
Chapter 209 Max's Point of View I stared at the stack of papers Clara had just dropped on my desk, my jaw clenching in frustration. Two weeks of intensive background checks on Louis Brown, and still nothing. Not a single red flag. Not one questionable transaction. Nothing. "I'm sorry, Mr. Graves,
Chapter 208 Eva's Point of View The familiar scent of coffee and leather fills the boardroom as I present our latest expansion plans. Uncle Louis sits to my right, just as he used to when he was running the company with Dad, and the similarity makes my heart squeeze with both grief and gratitude.
Chapter 207: Emily’s Point of View The soft clink of crystal glasses filled the quiet room as Louis and I toasted to his newest victory. His face, so often calm and unreadable, now wore a sly smile that reminded me of why I trusted him to help me with this plan. The firelight flickered across his
Chapter 206 Eva's Point of View My heels click against the marble floor as I walk toward the boardroom, Uncle Louis beside me. Despite the confidence in my stride, my heart is racing. Ten pairs of eyes will be waiting behind those mahogany doors, ten board members who've known me since I was a lit
I type back: "Stuck in meetings, sorry. Have fun! Give my best to everyone." Setting the phone down, I pull up Brown Industries' old financial records. If Louis has any hidden motives, maybe there's a clue here. He was on the board before he disappeared, after all. Hours pass as I dig through repo
Chapter 205 Max's Point of View Something doesn't feel right. I sit in my office, staring out at the city skyline through the floor-to-ceiling windows, but my mind is elsewhere. Last night's family dinner keeps replaying in my head, Eva's uncle Louis, appearing out of nowhere after ten years, hol