0057-Family Talk Show
Author: Calendula
last update2025-01-16 15:33:14

Biella smiled slightly, her eyes making thin lacerations and dryly sardonic.

“Oh, Darren,” she said, steady but searing.

“It looks like you missed one important thing.”

“The Xanta Company, including this entire family inheritance, may be possessed only if the rightful heir… dies.”

She leaned forward some, her cold eyes hunting Darren.

"And I’m still alive, as you can see.”

The room fell into silence.

Darren froze, the words crashing over him like a slap to the face.

His jaw tightened, struggling against the rage building up inside him.

“You can’t waltz in and take a wrecking ball to everything I’ve built,” he said, his voice quaking.

Biella tucked her arms casually across her chest and leaned back in her chair.

“Oh, I’m not wrecking anything, Darren.”

“I’m just taking back what belongs to me.”

“The family rules, as you know, are unequivocal."

"There can be no replacement for the heir, except in instances where...." She let her sentence hang, leaving it for Darren to fill in the rest i
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