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Chapter 413
Chapter 413:
Cole stood in the doorway. He had bypassed the main gate security using a long-forgotten emergency override code from his father’s era — a digital ghost buried so deep in the system that even Eleanor’s most diligent security chief would never have found it.
He looked completely unraveled. His tuxedo jacket was gone. His shirt hung open, his tie loose around his neck. He reeked of stale alcohol and desperate sweat. His eyes were bloodshot and wild.
“What are you doing here?” June demanded, her voice dropping to freezing ice. “Get out p>
Cole ignored her. He marched across the Persian rug, reached into his leather briefcase, and pulled out a thick, glossy legal document.
𝗪𝗲 𝘂p𝘥𝘢𝘁е 𝖾𝘷𝗲𝗿у 𝘸𝘦e𝗄 𝗈𝘯
He slammed it onto the desk in front of her.
“Look at it,” he ordered, his voice vibrating with manic energy. “This is your final offer, June p>
June glanced down. The cover page read: Comet BioTech Inc. — Controlling Equity Transfer.
“I just funded this company with one billion dollars,” Cole sneered, leaning over the desk. “It is designed to completely absorb Apex Bio’s market share. Sign that paper, and 51% of it is yours p>
He thought he was a god. He thought he could buy her soul.
“Come back to the penthouse,” he pressed, his eyes burning with toxic desperation. “Leave Brogan. Leave Easton. I will give you unlimited funding. I will make you the queen of the entire pharmaceutical industry p>
June stared at the contract.
Then she slowly leaned back in her chair.
A low sound escaped her throat, growing steadily until it filled the room.
June started to laugh.
It was not a happy laugh. It was cold and razor-sharp — a sound of absolute, unfiltered contempt. She looked at him with pure, unguarded pity.
“You really are pathetic, Cole,” she said, her voice thick with disgust. “You think I want your money? You think I want a company p>
She stood up and looked him dead in the eye.
“I am already a billionaire. I own the patents your entire empire relies on,” June said flatly. “I don’t need your money. I want my freedom. I want to be completely severed from a man who stole his dead brother’s identity to trick me into marriage p>
Cole’s face turned a sickly shade of grey.
June did not stop. She drove the knife deeper.
“I want to be free of the man who left me to bleed out from a ruptured pregnancy so he could attend a gala with his mistress,” she whispered, her eyes flashing with lethal calm. “You are a thief. And you are a murderer p>
The words hit Cole like bullets. He stumbled backward, his chest heaving.
His grand, billion-dollar gesture lay in ruins.
The humiliation mutated instantly into violent, uncontrollable rage.
“You ungrateful bitch!” Cole roared, his face twisting into something unrecognizable. “You think you can survive without me? I will bury you in litigation! I will bankrupt Brogan, I will destroy Easton, and I will make sure your precious patents are locked in federal court until you are dead! I will drag your name through the mud so completely that no respectable institution will ever let you near a microscope again p>