Christopher
I lean back in my chair, my jaw tight as the memory of James’s betrayal replays in my mind.
Twenty-one percent of Bell Energy—just handed to Sebastian without so much as a warning.
Those shares should’ve been mine. I earned them.
I deserve them.
James had no right to make that call. After everything I’ve done. How hard I have worked and, of course, my name. I am the rightful leader; it feels like he’s cut me off at the knees.
Now, Sebastian holds too many of the cards.
It’s a humiliation. An insult.
And James knows it. This isn’t about business; it’s personal. He’s undermined me in the worst possible way, leaving me scrambling to hold on to what little control I have left.
He is punishing me; it's as if he knows everything I have put Elizabeth through.
“Bastard,” I mu
