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Damon’s Confession (Part 1)
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2026-06-01 17:26:26
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Sloane received a call at 5:47 a.m.She had already been awake for about twenty minutes which wasn’t unusual anymore. She rarely slept through the night, often waking up too early and lying in bed and unable to stop her thoughts from racing.Her phone lit up on the kitchen counter, it was Elena.Elena never called before six in the morning unless something was wrong. Sloane answered before the phone could ring a second time.“What happened?”“It’s Harrison,” Elena said with a shaky voice. “He’s at St. Clement’s. They’re saying it was a car accident.”Sloane was already off the stool.“They’re saying,” she repeated. “What are you saying?”There was a short silence."I'm saying Harrison has taken the same route home for eleven years," Elena said. "He doesn't speed but his car was found at the bottom of an embankment on a road he had no reason to be driving that night."She paused for a moment."I'm saying I've known Harrison for a long time, Sloane."Sloane was already in her bedroom, t
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She called Elena first who arrived twelve minutes later, in a cream blouse and wide-leg trousers and her blonde hair pinned at the nape of her neck, she took one look at Damon standing on the far side of Sloane’s office and didn’t say a word.Coming from Elena, that said a lot.“He stays,” Before Elena could respond, Sloane said, … “For now.”Elena put her portfolio on the side table and sat down across from Sloane, crossed her legs and looked at Damon. Her face was calm, but she didn’t look impressed.“Elena,” Damon said.“Damon,” Elena said, giving him a look that said she wasn’t convinced.Sloane spread the contents of the folder across her desk. “Here’s the situation,” she said in a steady, businesslike tone. “Damon has proof linking Marcus to Nathaniel’s holding company. We also have a witness who understands how the company operates, we need to contact that witness without Nathaniel finding out and we have to move before the board meeting at the end of the month.”Elena leaned
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Sloane Blackwell stood at her window of her quiet office with a cup of tea, watching the city thirty floors below move without her. She was still wearing her charcoal blazer, and her dark locs were pinned up. The day had been full of meetings and phone calls. She had also spoken with her lawyer, who warned her about a legal motion Marcus Hale’s team was preparing.She had assured Harrison that she wasn’t afraid, but she kept her exhaustion to herself.There was a soft and hesitant knock on the door, which was unusual. Most people who came to see Sloane were board members, lawyers, and executives who are always confident and direct.She turned toward the door.“Come in.”The door opened and Damon Cross walked through it, he looked the same and completely different at the same time.The sleeves of his navy shirt were rolled up to his elbows. For Damon Cross, who was always neatly dressed in professional settings, it stood out.Sloane did not move from where she was standing.“You have
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Sloane sat at her desk with the documents neatly arranged in front of her and her third cup of coffee growing cold beside her. She was working on the timeline Harriet needed by morning which required her full attention and making it easy to lose track of time and forget about everything else, it was one of the few things in her life that still felt uncomplicated.A call came on a Sunday evening and Sloane recognized the number immediately, but she hesitated for a second before answering.“Mr. Grey,” she said.“Sloane.” Harrison Grey’s voice came through the line. He was the longest-serving member of the Vance Industries board, seventy-four years old and the one person in the entire composition of the company’s governance structure whose name she had not marked with a question or a worry when she’d gone through the list because she did not know where he stood.You could never tell what Harrison Grey was thinking. His respect had to be earned, his support wasn’t guaranteed, and he rarel
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Sloane saw the story on her phone first on a Wednesday morning. A notification from a financial news app she had set up years ago alerted her to any mention of Vance Industries or her name. She was standing barefoot in the penthouse kitchen, still wearing the clothes she had slept in. The coffee was brewing while the morning light slowly filled the city outside.She tapped the notification and read the headline. Then she placed her phone face-down on the counter, poured herself a cup of coffee, and read it again. This time, she leaned against the counter and stood quietly.People close to Vance Industries have expressed concerns about the COO’s recent behavior. They cited poor decision-making, frequent absences, and actions that several people connected to the board described as disruptive.She took a few more sips of coffee, turned her phone face down, and headed to her room to get dressed.Claire was already at her desk when Sloane walked out forty minutes later, she’d seen it too.
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