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Chapter 37: The Clock is Ticking

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last update Last Updated: 2024-10-10 07:10:00

Paulina sat in the now empty convention room, her fingers still gripping the palms of her chair as the door clicked close in the back of the closing investor. The tension inside the room lingered like a heavy cloud, and he or she should nonetheless experience the weight of their selection placed inside the air. She had accomplished the whole thing she ought to to persuade them laid out the dangers, warned them of the consequences but now, all she ought to do turned into wait. The future of Westfield Enterprises changed into no longer in her fingers.

As the minutes ticked by way of, the silence felt oppressive. Paulina stared down on the stack of papers in front of her, the legal files she had rushed to collect, and for the primary time, a small flicker of doubt crept into her thoughts. What if this wasn’t sufficient? What if James had already gotten to them? She had seen the temptation of their eyes, the trap of easy cash. Even with all of th

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