Divorce Failed My Wife's Secret Identities Shock the World novel Chapter 816

Andres was absolutely speechless. He shot Maeve a deeply unamused look that practically screamed, "Can we please stick to the facts?" He and Nancy Grover had never crossed any lines; there had never been a "thing" between them.

Leonardo and Corbin couldn't suppress their laughter. Slade, however, looked like he'd just struck gold. "Wait, seriously?"

To be fair, Slade couldn't be blamed for his ignorance regarding Andres's romantic history. They were frenemies at best—sometimes teaming up for a massive corporate raid, other times trying to rip each other's throats out. With one based in Aethelburg and the other in Port Caspian, they rarely spoke. He genuinely had no idea about the supposed history between Andres and Nancy.

Rubbing his chin, Slade nodded as the pieces clicked together. "So you're freezing out the Grovers over a personal vendetta. Andres, who knew you had it in you to be such a femme fatale?"

Andres glared at him. "You don't need to broadcast your sheer stupidity to the entire room."

Maeve steered the conversation back to the business at hand. "Before you all make a decision, let me be very clear. The Grover family might be grouped with the Fultons and the Shaws as Aethelburg's big three, but their actual power completely eclipses the other two. Declan, Corbin, am I wrong?"

When it came to pure, raw influence, both Declan and Corbin had to admit she was right. Their families being hailed as equals was nothing more than a carefully orchestrated smokescreen by the Grovers to deflect public scrutiny.

The tallest tree always caught the harshest wind. If the Grover Group monopolized everything openly, it would paint a massive target on their backs. They needed shields to absorb some of that political and corporate crossfire. Naturally, not just anyone in Aethelburg was qualified to act as their meat shield. Both the Fulton and Shaw empires wielded astronomical capital. At least on the surface, they maintained a delicate, mutually beneficial peace with the Grovers.

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