LAURA ROBINSON’S POV
I am not a woman who panics, panic is for people who build nothing, who inherit chaos and call it fate. I built order, I built legacy. I built an empire alongside my husband, brick by brick, deal by deal, sacrifice by sacrifice. I buried love when it threatened efficiency. I swallowed grief when it slowed momentum. I taught myself, taught my son, that emotion is a luxury the powerful cannot afford.
So when the headlines flood my screen, I do not scream.
I sit, I read, and something cold and deliberate begins to form in my chest.
ROBINSON HEIR’S AFFAIR SENDS MARKETS INTO FREEFALL
WHO IS LAVENDER BROOKS? THE WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM
SCANDAL THREATENS DECADES-OLD DYNASTY
I scroll slowly, methodically, as if this is a quarterly report instead of a public exe
