Chapter 46 Blood On Her Empire

• Sophia’s POV
• The morning sky over the city was the color of gunmetal, low clouds smudging the skyline as if someone had dragged a charcoal stick across it. From the top floor of Voss Capital’s new headquarters, the view usually steadied me. Today it felt like a warning.
• I’d arrived early, long before the executive team, craving silence to plan the next move for the shipping subsidiary we’d just acquired. The elevator doors closed behind me with a soft hiss. My heels clicked across polished concrete, a rhythm that usually sang of control.