Chapter 62 - the venomous return
maya stood in her glass-walled executive office, staring down at the torn blue silk. she didn't panic, nor did she frantically summon the building's armed security detail. inheriting the absolute, terrifying composure of her father, she carefully placed the fabric inside a sterile evidence bag.
the vance family had been utterly destroyed decades ago, stripped of their wealth and freedom after vanessa's catastrophic downfall. but rumors had always whispered of a distant, exiled cousin named sebastian vance, who had spent his entire life in the shadows of eastern europe, harboring a toxic, burning hatred for the sterling name.
maya's secure terminal suddenly flickered, overriding the corporate firewall. sebastian's cruel, heavily scarred face appeared on the screen, his dark eyes radiating pure, unadulterated vengeance.
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you took everything from my family, maya, sebastian sneered, his voice dropping into a lethal, grating register. i have spent twenty years acquiring the absolute majority of your supply chain partners. surrender the sterling energy patents to me by midnight, or i will cripple your entire global infrastructure. the digital war had officially begun.
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