ADRIAN'S POV
The conference room hummed with quiet tension. Charts glowed across the projector, profits and projections dancing in neat rows. I barely breathed, every muscle wired tight.
This was it. Months of maneuvering, countless sleepless nights-all boiling down to Sinclair Global. If I secured this partnership, Voss Enterprises would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the titans. If I lost it, everything I had built would begin to crumble.
I couldn't afford to lose.
"Your numbers are ambitious," Ethan Sinclair said at last, his voice smooth, measured. He leaned back in his chair, eyes sharp and unreadable. "Ambitious... isn't always reliable."
I leaned forward, palms flat on the table. "Reliability is our foundation. Look at the data-our expansion strategy isn't built on dreams. It'
