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Chapter 321
Chapter 321:
Crawford pushed himself slowly upright. He ignored the blood dripping from his torn IV site. He ignored the agonizing pain radiating from his broken ribs. He stood perfectly straight and smoothed the front of his blood-stained hospital gown with terrifying, deliberate slowness.
As he performed this simple action, the feral, violent brawler ceased to exist. The aura in the room shifted dramatically. The temperature seemed to drop ten degrees.
The man standing before them was no longer a jealous rival. It was the apex predator of Wall Street — the CEO of the Love Group, a man who could dismantle entire economies with a single phone call.
Crawford looked at Cole. His dark eyes were completely stripped of emotion. Cold, calculating, and absolute.
“Cole,” Crawford said. His voice was no longer a roar. It was a low, smooth, terrifyingly calm murmur.
𝘗𝗈pula𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿і𝗲ѕ o𝘯 𝘨𝖺ln𝘰𝗏е𝗅ѕ.𝖼o𝘮
Cole raised his heavy head slowly. His dead eyes met Crawford’s icy stare.
“Look at me,” Crawford commanded, his tone leaving no room for disobedience.
Cole forced his chin up.
“For the sake of the thirty years we spent as brothers,” Crawford began, each word precise and lethal, “I am going to speak to you right now as a businessman, not as an enemy. And I am only going to say this exactly once p>
Crawford raised his right hand slowly and extended two fingers.
“Two months,” Crawford stated.
The words hung in the air like a guillotine blade.
Cole’s bloodshot eyes fixed on the two fingers. His brain struggled to process the meaning.
“I am giving you exactly two months,” Crawford continued, his voice descending to a freezing whisper. “Sixty days to clean up the disgusting, pathetic mess you have made with Alycia Beasley.” He took one slow step forward. The physical pressure he exerted on the room was immense. “You will finalize your divorce with June. You will sign the papers. You will give her every cent she is legally owed, or nothing at all if that is what she wants. But you will completely sever her from the toxic rot of the Compton family p>
Cole’s jaw clenched. The muscles in his neck strained against his collar.
“And if I don’t?” Cole rasped, his voice trembling with a mixture of defiance and absolute terror.
Crawford’s eyes narrowed into dark, lethal slits.
“If that divorce decree is not signed and filed within sixty days,” Crawford said, his voice completely devoid of mercy, “I will declare total war p>
Julian drew a sharp breath. He knew exactly what that meant.
“I will leverage every asset, every political connection, and every media outlet the Love Group controls,” Crawford continued, his gaze drilling directly into Cole’s soul. “I will unite your enemies. I will engineer a hostile takeover of the Compton Group. I will buy your board members. I will short your stock into the ground. I will not burn my empire down for her, Cole — I will use my empire to dismantle yours, piece by piece, and grind your grandfather’s legacy into ash p>
Crawford leaned in until his face was inches from Cole’s.
“I will destroy you financially, socially, and legally,” Crawford whispered. “And then, when you have absolutely nothing left, I will take her anyway p>