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
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 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
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 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 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 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 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 215 Eva's point of view The numbers didn't make sense. I'd been reviewing the quarterly financial reports for hours, my coffee going cold beside me, fingers tracing the columns of figures that seemed to dance and blur before my eyes. The soft hum of the office, distant phone conversations
Chapter 214 Max point of view The numbers didn't lie. I'd been staring at Brown Enterprise's financial reports for hours, and the pattern was becoming clearer with each spreadsheet I reviewed. Small discrepancies at first, rounding errors that weren't really errors, transaction timestamps that di
Chapter 213 Eva's point of view The boardroom felt different this morning. Maybe it was the way conversations hushed when I walked in, or how Richard Chen barely met my eyes during our usual pre-meeting small talk. Something had shifted, like a current changing direction beneath still waters. I
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