Chapter 154

• “I was talking about when I first inherited the Steeles. I was seventeen, already a sophomore. After Grandpa died, I dropped out and went straight to the company. For a while, the Steeles almost went under.”
• Joaquin Latham hummed in reply. He’d met Zayla Steele around that time, and that memory ran deep. In some ways, they were cut from the same cloth—at work, both swift and decisive, sharp-edged to the point of pissing people off. But people with real bite never fear making enemies.
• If there was one big difference, it was that he’d never met a worthy opponent. Zayla met him—and she lost first.