Finn’s hands were pinned to the steering wheel while Evelyn deliberately covered the red marks on his wrists with his gloves.
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Chapter 13
I removed Declan from every Savelli role that existed only through marriage.
Not everything.
His personal businesses remained his.
His own relationships remained his.
I was not becoming what he accused me of.
But council access?
Gone.
Family security briefings?
Gone.
Authority over staff?
Gone.
He called it humiliation.
I called it separation.
“Without you, I’m nothing in this organization.”
I stared.
“That sounds like something you should have considered before trying to become indispensable by frightening my son.”
He had no answer.
The truth was crueler than anything I could do to him.
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He had spent years believing proximity to power was the same as owning it.
Once removed, he had to discover what was actually his.
