Chapter 145

• While Evelyn was busy plotting from the comfort of her overpriced velvet settee, I was already halfway across the city, walking into the heart of power itself Serenity Tower. Not many people got face time with Victoria Langston, Chairwoman Emerita of Langston Global, and the woman many in the industry quietly referred to as the queen without a throne.
• She wasn’t royalty in the traditional sense, but with a legacy that shaped three continents' worth of market policies and female leadership initiatives, Victoria might as well have worn a crown.
• I could already imagine Evelyn’s discomfort. The idea of coming to me to negotiate anything bruised her pride. She’d likely decided to send Hazel first, their version of a diplomatic envoy. If I refused which I would it gave them plausible deniability. But that move had nothing to do with grace and everything to do with ego.