The international business community did not absorb shocks quietly. The total collapse of the Vance Group and the subsequent meteoric rise of Chloe Albright had created a fault line in high society.
To the old money dynasties of Capital Port, Chloe was a dangerous anomaly an outsider who had disrupted the natural order by toppling a billionaire family."They are calling it a fluke," Chloe murmured, staring at the glowing screen of her tablet as the private luxury sedan purred through the rain slicked streets.
The financial tabloids are hinting that I only achieved the takeover because I'm... close to you."Julian, who was sitting beside her in a perfectly tailored charcoal tuxedo, didn't look up from his own device. But his jaw tightened slightly, a telltale sign of his simmering irritati
