Valera Dawson’s footsteps echoed softly on the gray marble floor of the fiftieth-floor corridor. Inside her embrace, a digital folder containing Dawson Enterprises' final tax fraud analysis draft felt incredibly heavy, as though she were carrying an execution axe ready to behead her own family dynasty. In accordance with the brief instructions she received, the executive elevator door had been fully authorized to bring her directly to the pinnacle of Valen Group's power.
However, as soon as Valera stepped out of the elevator door, the atmosphere welcoming her felt entirely different from usual. The fiftieth-floor lobby environment appeared so harrowing, enveloped by a tension so dense that it caused Garrick's senior secretary, Sophia, to stand with a pale face behind her reception desk.
