Chapter 28
The return to the obsidian boardroom at 2:00 PM felt like the deployment of a synchronized military unit. The sliding shoji-glass doors parted, and Alejandro and Emily entered side by side. The dynamic had fundamentally warped in the span of two hours. Alejandro carried his silver-headed cane, but he no longer leaned on it as a shield; he walked with the expansive, towering stride of a monarch who had just reclaimed his crown. Beside him, Emily moved with the lethal grace of a queen who had just validated her sovereign right to the throne. The Japanese executive delegation from the Akizuki Group was already seated, their posture rigid, their expressions hovering between traditional politeness and the clinical curiosity of investors waiting to see who had won the private war. Emily did no
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