Chapter 336
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Chapter 337
By the end of the day, Stella had dealt the entire Wright family a devastating blow.
Evan pressed his fingers against his aching temples. “We’ll end the meeting here.”
The moment he said that—
one of the directors slammed his hand on the table.
“End it? At this rate, will there even BE a Wright Corporation by the next meeting?”
Evan shot him a cold, cutting look.
“If your personal affairs are this out of control, Mr. Wright,” another director added sharply, “perhaps you should step down as executive director and let someone with time handle the company.”
Evan went still.
Patrick, standing beside him, didn’t dare breathe.
The atmosphere in the conference room dropped to freezing.
Everyone knew what had been happening lately.
The internal chaos.
The pressure from Hogarth Group.
And Stella turning the Wright family upside down.
Patrick stepped in quickly. “Director, that’s a bit extreme.”
“Extreme?” the man scoffed. “Back when we supported the Wright family, it was because we believed Evan had capability.
“When we started this business with the old chairman, we put everything we had into it. We didn’t do that just to watch it collapse!”
Evan’s gaze sharpened.
“How much exactly did you ‘put in’?”
His voice cut through the room like a blade.
The rising tension froze instantly.
“What do you mean by that?” Director snapped.
Evan’s tone turned colder.
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“You all know how much you’ve taken out of this company over the years. If you think you can use that to threaten me now, then get out. Pull your shares and leave.”
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Evan was done holding back.
The external pressure from Hogarth was already enough-
and now these old men were trying to pile on.
As if he didn’t know what they had been scheming all these years.
He stood up abruptly.
With one sweep of his arm, he knocked the laptop and documents off the table.
They crashed to the floor with a sharp, jarring sound.
The noise echoed through the room-
like a warning.
He was out of patience.
Hogarth was suffocating him.
And the mess at home was even worse.
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As he strode out, he ran into Lucas at the door.
“Evan? You’re calling it a day already?”
Evan shot him a glare. “I haven’t had a proper day off in days. You got a problem with me leaving early?”
Lucas frowned. “Why are you taking it out on me?”
What the hell was wrong with him today?
Evan didn’t answer. He kept walking.
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Lucas hurried after him. “I actually came to talk to you about something.”
Evan’s voice turned impatient. “If you can fix HER situation, I’ll agree to whatever you want.
Lucas blinked. “Fix whose situation?”
Then it clicked.
“Wait… you mean your wife?”
He raised both hands immediately. “Yeah, no. I can’t help with that. Not even a little.”
That situation-
was way too messy.
It involved a death.
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There was nu fixing that.
Evan stopped walking.
His eyes turned cold.
Lucas felt a chill run down his spine. “You can’t handle it either, can you?”
Evan said nothing.
But his silence said everything.
His expression darkened further.
For a man-
“can’t handle it” meant one thing.
Failure.
And with Stella-
he had failed completely.
Because the woman he used to be able to control, to placate-
was now someone he couldn’t calm down at all.
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Sara Lili
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
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