DAVE The transfer of shares was completed three days ago. By Wednesday, Elara informed me that the company had scheduled a board accounting meeting, and she wanted me to be there. I knew exactly what she was doing—this was her way of throwing a curveball at her father, making it clear why she had visited that lawyer in the first place. It was her silent declaration of war. The amusing part? Godfrey actually believed he was outsmarting me. He thought he had the upper hand, but what he didn’t realize was that long before he even learned how to play these games, I had already mastered them. I had played in the shadows, side by side with Damien, long before Godfrey even knew the rules. When we checked the CCTV footage from the area, we were conveniently told that every single camera had bee

