CHAPTER 236 — When Love Is Also War

(The Meeting)

The main hall of the Castell Group was set up as if for a battle that no one had yet declared aloud… but which everyone could feel vibrating in the air.

The long table, polished like a dark mirror, looked more like a courtroom than a meeting room. Each chair held a different story, a hidden ambition, a well-concealed fear.

The air felt thicker than usual.

It was as if even breathing were harder in that place where so many decisions had alter