Julian's POV

The stack of legal files lay scattered across my desk like a battlefield I was slowly losing. I had spent the last 12 days speaking with lawyers one after another, same rehearsed lines, same dead ends. No loophole, no trick, no escape. The board’s ultimatum weighed heavy on me like a chain around my throat. One month. One month to find a solution, or everything I’d built, everything I’d fought for, would slip through my fingers and land in Caleb’s greedy hands.

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