Hostile Takeover

For a brief moment, the dining hall fell into an uneasy calm—one of those pauses that followed laughter when everyone was quietly registering what had just been said… and what it revealed.

Roth held his expression a fraction too long.

Then—

“Ehem.”

The sound was soft and controlled, cutting neatly through the room.

He straightened at once, rolling his shoulders back and tugging lightly at his