Chapter 36

Camille’s POV

There’s a particular satisfaction in watching something fall apart from a distance, in witnessing the precise moment when confidence shatters and reality crashes down. Victoria had taught me that. “True power isn’t in the destruction itself,” she’d told me once, “but in knowing you orchestrated it while they never saw you coming.” As I sat at the head of the conference table in Kane industries’ executive boardroom, I savored that lesson, watching the faces of Pacific Maritime’s leadership crumble under the weight of their impending ruin.

I watched the numbers change on my tablet as Pacific Maritime’s stock price plummeted. Each drop represented another piece of Stefan’s empire crumbling. The company’s board members sat across from me in Kane Industries’ main conference room, their faces growing paler by the minute.

“Your company lost forty percent of its value in the last hour,” I said, my voice carrying through the silent room. “In fifteen min