Lance

The air inside the boardroom felt heavy as I placed the last folder in the center of the long table.

Four days had passed since Dad spoke to Alice, and I could no longer hold everything back.

I refused to let my father use the woman I loved just to force me to yield. And I refused to let him use me as a pawn to manipulate Alice.

This wasn’t an ordinary meeting. It wasn’t just another presentation or routine discussion.

This was the moment I had been preparing for—a moment that would determine who would remain inside the empire of Richardson Foods… and who would be pushed out...