Chapter 69

Camille’s POV

I stood in Victoria’s darkened office, staring at the files spread across her massive desk. The penthouse windows behind me reflected my silhouette against Manhattan’s nighttime skyline, a solitary figure surrounded by the evidence of a secret alliance I’d never suspected.

Victoria was in Tokyo closing the Moretti Global acquisition, leaving me alone with access to her private servers, supposedly to prepare for my new role heading Kane Industries’ fashion division. Instead, I’d stumbled across a hidden folder labeled simply “Pierce.”

Now my world was tilting on its axis.

The first document had seemed innocent enough, a standard background report on Alexander Pierce and his business holdings. But the next had stopped my breath in my lungs: detailed accounts of Alexander’s behind-the-scenes manipulation of markets to prevent Rose’s company from securing emergency financing last month.

And it didn’t stop there.

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