Chapter 13 Three Billion Is Nothing

• In the conference room, Melissa, Carl, and Philip turned ashen. They stumbled over their words, humiliated under Victor’s glare. With no choice left, they rushed out of the room in panic, their confidence shattered.
• Later that day, the atmosphere at the Sterling estate was suffocating. The patriarch sat at the head of the table, his face like carved stone, Willaims too was fuming as the eldest child while the rest of the family waited nervously.
• Robert broke the silence first. “Dad, do we really have to let Celeste handle this project? There must be another way.”