The price of standing
The victory didn’t feel like one.
That was the first thing I noticed as the elevator doors slid shut behind me and carried me down from the boardroom’s altitude of glass and consequence. There was no rush of triumph, no relief flooding my chest — only a steady, deliberate awareness.
Standing ha...
Chapters
1. Prologue
2. Rebirth: A day before the wedding
3. The Rival’s Doorstep
4. Terms and conditions
5. Walking into the Lions den
6. Business and Bloodlines
7. Counterattack
8. Past Scars, Present Battles
9. Temptations and Traps
10. Dangerous Liaisons
11. The major strike
12. Ethan’s Fury
13. Selena’s Poison
14. Damien’s Game
15. High society Showroom
16. Ethan strikes back
17. Trial by fire
18. Selena’s Trap
19. The first crack
20. Crossing the lines
21. Picking up the Pieces
22. The media storm
23. Family Betrayal
24. Learning about the battlefield
25. Elena’s First deal
26. Ethan countermove
27. Selena’s Rumor Campaign
28. Damien warning
29. The Black family Gala
30. The kiss
31. The aftermath
32. Temptations in the shadows
33. Cooperate Ambush
34. Elena Counterattack
35. Selena’s Jealous Rage
36. The deal
37. Ethan’s Rage
38. Passionate night
39. Declaration of War
40. Picking sides
41. The Charity Event
42. The smear campaign
43. Countermove
44. The New Player
45. Family ties torn
46. The day after the Betrayal
47. The cut off
48. The quarrel
49. The Luncheon
50. Building from ashes
51. Elena’s First Investor
52. Stakes raised
53. Stolen Legacy
54. Elena’s Office
55. Her first Business deal Failure
56. Interference
57. Selena’s cheap tactics
58. Elena’s team
59. Mole in the group
60. Near death accident
61. Aftermath
62. The headlines
63. Ethan’s ploy
64. Counter strike
65. Hearts in conflicts
66. Heart to heart
67. Trust reduced
68. The new heir
69. The comeback
70. Leverage
71. Selena’s realization
72. Selena’s foolishness
73. Elena’s Retaliation
74. Selena’s fall
75. Smokes and mirror
76. Cracks in the mirror
77. Attack
78. Trap
79. Shadows in the dark
80. Inner circle Crack
81. Puppet strings
82. Fire without flames
83. The calm after the storm
84. Man in the lobby
85. The name she doesn't want to say
86. The place he choose for her
87. Fragile Alliance
88. The man behind the scope
89. The ghost from her past
90. The warning
91. Echoes from the past
92. Into the lions mouth
93. The unexpected visitors
94. Heir in the shadows
95. The new heir
96. Glass walls and Quite wars
97. The first cut
98. Pressure Points
99. The room where decisions are made
100. The price of standing
101. Abitration
102. What remains
103. Unbound
104. The quite that test you
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