Expanding Empire
The Blackwell Tower boardroom pulsed with the energy of conquest.
Sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 77th floor, casting sharp golden shadows across the long glass table where twenty executives sat in tense, expectant silence.
At the head, side by side in identical black leather chairs, sat Ava and Lucian Blackwell co-CEOs, husband and wife, the undisputed rulers of their empire.
Ava, seven months pregnant and radiating a fierce, unapologetic glow, wore a tailored black maternity suit that hugged her curves like armor. The fabric stretched elegantly over her rounded belly, a visible symbol of the life they were building alongside the company. She clicked the remote with steady fingers, and the massive screen behind them flickered to life: a
