Swapping a Broken Heart for a New Start novel Chapter 824

She had assumed Dennis had already resolved the issue with the shares. She never imagined there was this kind of complication still lingering.

Dennis’s fingers toyed absently with the nape of her neck as he continued. “Targeting my mother’s shares was their plan from the beginning. Their goal was to force me back to Cabinda.”

“Hmm?” Camila was confused again. “Why?”

She tried to lift her head to look at him, but he held her close, preventing her from moving, so she settled back against him.

Out of her sight, a rare, fleeting smirk of derision touched Dennis’s otherwise cool features. “Because NextGen Technologies’ success has made them greedy. The company was on the verge of collapse, but with my involvement, it was revitalized and now towers over all the legacy corporations. So, they see my business acumen and want to use me to elevate the Collins family to a new echelon of power. My mother’s shares are the leverage they thought they could use to control me.”

“They just didn’t expect me to defy them. When they realized they couldn’t control me, they resorted to threats. They even convinced themselves that I reject them simply because I’ve grown distant from the family over the years. They think a child will tie me down, give me something to worry about. So they hatched this brilliant plan: once I have a child, I’ll be bound to serve the Collins family for the rest of my life.”

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