#Chapter 75: Consequences

Third Person The article should’ve had her name in it. Not Emily’s. Chloe scrolled through the page for the third time, her nail tapping an anxious rhythm against the side of her teacup. Emily Bennett leads fiscal reform with approval. It was a full breakdown of how Emily had caught a “minor discrepancy” and “moved swiftly to safeguard the Pack’s economic integrity.” It should’ve been a scandal. A stain. A whisper campaign that tanked her position and made Logan toss her aside. Instead, it had turned into praise. Chloe’s chest tightened. She closed the tablet with a sharp snap and stood, pacing across the polished floors of the suite she'd secured near Titanfang’s center hall. It was sleek, minimalist, impersonal—just like the contracts that kept her close to power without ever offering a piece of it. The knock on her door came soft, polite. Expected. Her mother never raised her voice when it would be more effective to lower it. Chloe opened the door and stepped