Chapter 1043 You’re the Girl I Love Most (19)

• “I know. I won’t let Miss Sawyer find out about this.” Chadwick Fullner ground out the words. “But I’m not letting Donnie Burns walk away clean, either. He’s the chairman of Regal Peaks now, right? Then he should care about his reputation even more. I’m going to get to the bottom of it. If there’s anything shady in there, I’ll go talk to him. I still have that recording. Let’s see what kind of storm that bastard thinks he can kick up.”
• He’d never taken Donnie Burns that seriously before. He figured holding that leverage would keep Burns from crossing the line. Turns out he’d been cocky—he’d underestimated the man’s ambition and guts. Fine. If that’s how it is, tear off the mask and go for the throat. Let’s see if Donnie Burns is scared of going down in flames.
• “Take care of Miss Sawyer first,” Kate Penrose said, calmer now. “You want to dig for answers—how, exactly? We both know his tricks without asking. Bottom-feeding, squeezing in at a discount, then cutting deals—none of that helps us. Even if you plan to go head‑to‑head, Regal Peaks is still a giant, no matter how rough things look. It’s a fat piece of meat. It’s worth Donnie Burns risking disgrace to grab it. You think one recording will make him hand it back after he finally got it on his plate? No way. Worst case, he steps back and lets pros run the place. He’ll still rake in tons of profit. So that recording doesn’t scare him enough. And right now we don’t even know if my uncle and aunt have any countermeasures, or what they’re thinking. We have to wait till my uncle wakes up. So don’t make a reckless move.”