Natalia
“You want to do what?”
Damon’s incredulous voice echoed off the conference room walls. On the other side of the table, Andrei sat frozen, staring at the gleaming surface. For once, my ex-husband seemed completely speechless. I wasn’t sure if I should consider that a win or not.
I straightened in my chair. “You heard me. I want to propose an alliance between Ashmoor and Moonshadow.”
The silence that followed was so thick I could have cut it with a knife. Damon’s mouth opened and closed repeatedly like a fish out of water, while Andrei just slowly looked up at me like I had just sprouted a second head.
“If you’d just take a look at the contract,” I continued, gesturing to the bundle of papers in the center of the table, “you’ll see that it outlines the terms clearly. Mutual defe
