Mara
Taking over Steel Corp wasn’t part of any plan. It dropped into my lap fast and hard—but I stepped up. I had to. Lucian trusted no one else with his legacy, and frankly, I understood why. With people like Martha lurking in the shadows, loyalty wasn’t just valuable—it was survival.
I had more to lose than anyone if something happened to Lucian. That made me dangerous in all the right ways.
The board was easy to handle—talk, posture, nod, repeat. But beneath that calm exterior was chaos. Contracts left half-signed. Projects stalled. Alpha Vander had clearly lost interest toward the end, though why, I still couldn’t figure out. Maybe boredom. Maybe arrogance. Either way, I was left with the fallout—mountains of files, endless decisions, a blinking screen I was beginning to loathe.
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