Chapter 112

• The sudden pullback of Westhaven Holdings and Sandoria Corporation left everyone on my team stunned.
• For a moment, we froze in the executive boardroom, the tension so thick it could be cut with a signature Montblanc. We’d expected an all-out legal assault, media smear campaigns, and underhanded attempts to dismantle Starhaven Group from within not a sudden withdrawal.
• When word spread of their retreat, some of the senior partners suspected a trap. Maybe a misdirection, a ploy to bait us into a premature acquisition move or legal misstep. But as I processed the silence spreading across our internal comms no more urgent filings, no lawsuits, no aggressive press releases I realized the truth.