Chapter 27 Pressured
Pressure never announced itself loudly.
It seeped.
By the morning, Lila could feel it in the way the house moved around her—quiet adjustments, subtle reorientations, as though invisible hands had begun tightening screws she hadn’t known were loose.
Breakfast was already set when she came downstai...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Face In The Frame
2. Chapter 2 Ghost In The Bloodline
3. Chapter 3 Legal Battles
4. Chapter 4 Target Located
5. Chapter 5 Suspicions of Doom
6. Chapter 6 The Notice
7. Chapter 7 The Counter Move
8. Chapter 8 The Mirror
9. Chapter 9 The Fault Line
10. Chapter 10 The Summons
11. Chapter 11 The Breach
12. Chapter 12 The Test
13. Chapter 13 The Waiting
14. Chapter 14 The Narrative
15. Chapter 15 The Leverage
16. Chapter 16 Propositioning
17. Chapter 17 The Debt
18. Chapter 18 Arranged Offer
19. Chapter 19 The Contract
20. Chapter 20 Negotiations
21. Chapter 21 The Clauses
22. Chapter 22 Interference
23. Chapter 23 Legal Isolation
24. Chapter 24 The Protector
25. Chapter 25 Journalist Calls
26. Chapter 26 Missing Years
27. Chapter 27 Pressured
28. Chapter 28 Violent Retreats
29. Chapter 29 The Breach
30. Chapter 30 The Patriarch Arrives
31. Chapter 31 Revelations
32. Chapter 32 Connecting Past Threats
33. Chapter 33 Boardroom Dilemmas
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