2024-10-14 07:00:09“Woah!” Lisa exclaimed, eyeing the expensive restaurant Tedmond had brought her to. “I’ve never been to a place this luxurious before.”
Tedmond raised an eyebrow. “I thought so too.”
He led her to a table, and they both sat down. Lisa still wore the contact lenses, pretending to be Cora, but Tedmond had other plans.
“Waiter,” she called softly, waving the waiter over before turning her gaze back to Tedmond. “Since you’ve been here before, why don’t you order for me?”
Tedmond nodded. “Sure, I’ll do that.”
A smile appeared on Lisa’s face. She expected him to order expensive food and didn’t want to do it herself, hoping no
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“The reason my brother doesn’t have the document here is simple: Xinca has not released our counterpart of the digital filing yet. They have strict protocols,” Frank began, a calm, controlled look on his face.“They do not want the specific conditions of this investment made public, especially not the equity split, until the secondary tier of local investments is fully secured,” he added.He held out his hand, letting his gaze sweep across the investors.“They are protecting your interests as much as ours. If the full scale of their involvement leaked tonight, stock prices would spike, and you’d all be priced out before you could even open your checkbooks.”Frank gave a knowing, sophisticated smile.“Xinca is helping us stabilize, but they are doing it on their terms. Privacy is the price we pay for their backing.”The shift in the room was almost instantaneous. Frank’s explanation was so logical, so perfectly aligned with Xinca’s legendary reputation for shadow-moving, that suspicio
CHAPTER 609
Beatrice was pleased that Persis was finally looking at her. She subtly raised her hand, angling it so Persis would notice the ring on her finger. It wasn’t a piece that could be acquired easily, and she wanted Persis to understand that she, too, belonged to the highest tier of elite society.“A sham?” Persis asked softly.“Oh, absolutely,” Beatrice hissed, delighted to finally have her attention. “Look at them. Those fools are falling for it because they’re terrified of missing out on a Xinca deal. But Harold Griffin has been a dead man walking for months.”She leaned in further. “He’s a liar, and a bankrupt one. He’s using that name because it’s the only thing left that hasn’t been repossessed. He’s selling a bridge to nowhere, and I’d hate to see someone as sophisticated as yourself get caught in his web.”Beatrice gave a smug little shrug. “The Griffins are desperate. They’d claim the Pope was their business partner if they thought it would stop the bailiffs from taking their fu
CHAPTER 608
Across the room, Harold was practically glowing. He had regained his footing, his voice booming as he graciously accepted the interest of the elite.“Yes, yes, the Xinca partnership is… exclusive,” Harold told a cluster of eager investors. “But for the right local partners, we might find a way to carve out a secondary tier of involvement. We Griffins have always valued our roots, after all.”Adeline stood nearby, her eyes darting toward Tedmond. She saw her nephew’s silence and misinterpreted it as defeat. Straightening her spine, she tapped her cane against the floor with renewed authority.“You see, Harold,” Adeline whispered as she stepped beside him, “I told you the boy was nothing. He has the clothes, but he doesn’t have the stomach for the game. He’s watching us win, and he can’t do a thing about it.”Harold grinned, feeling the phantom weight of Xinca’s power shielding him.He didn’t know that the very man who held the keys to Xinca was standing ten feet away, calmly waiting
CHAPTER 607
“What was that, Harold?” Arthur asked flatly. “Who is that man to you? You look like you’ve seen a ghost, and then you tried to start a brawl in the middle of the Royal Meridien.”Harold wiped a bead of cold sweat from his upper lip and forced a jagged, breathless laugh.“That? That was just… a family matter, Arthur. That man is my son… Tedmond. He’s been away, and he’s clearly forgotten his manners. I was simply trying to… educate him on how a Griffin behaves in public. He’s young, arrogant, and under the influence of that woman.”Arthur Abrahall exchanged a long, skeptical look with Arlo. Then he glanced toward Tedmond, who was calmly accepting a fresh glass of champagne for Persis, composed, unbothered, the very image of controlled power.“If that were truly your son, Harold,” Arthur said coolly, “he would have been the first to offer you the investment you’re so desperately begging us for. A son with that kind of backing doesn’t let his father’s accounts remain frozen.”Harold’s
CHAPTER 606
Harold stood frozen, his hand still suspended in the air, pointing at Tedmond. His heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped bird.He couldn’t believe he had shouted the truth in public, and even more, he couldn’t believe Tedmond had looked him in the eye and denied it.‘Isn’t this what he always wanted?’ Harold thought, his mind spiraling through a warped version of the past.He remembered how Tedmond used to look at them, longing for a seat at the table, craving even a scrap of acknowledgment from the real Griffins. In Harold’s mind, he was finally opening the door. He was offering Tedmond the ultimate gift, the chance to officially be one of them, to carry the weight of the name alongside the elite.But as he studied Tedmond’s cold, immaculate exterior, a darker truth flickered at the back of Harold’s mind. He wasn’t offering this out of love.He was offering it because the Griffin name was a sinking ship, and Tedmond looked like the last lifeboat in the harbor.‘If he just
CHAPTER 605
Evelyn felt the world tilt. She was standing mere inches away, yet she had never felt further from the center of power.Beatrice continued to gush, deliberately widening the divide, while Tedmond kept his protective arm around Persis, his expression a mask of cool, untouchable success.He didn’t even glance back to see if Evelyn was still there.To him, she wasn’t important. He wasn’t willing to let her use him for attention. Now, she would have to face herself and the family alone. He wouldn’t help.He had come to the gala to observe and to accompany Persis, since she had insisted on attending.Evelyn’s vision blurred with a mix of fury and desperation. The dismissal was unbearable. She had spent decades at the top of the social hierarchy, and being treated like a ghost by a man she considered a subordinate family member was a humiliation she could not swallow.Ignoring the snickers of the surrounding guests, she stepped sharply forward and grabbed Tedmond’s arm, her fingers diggin
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