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Businesswoman Chapter 160
Light perspiration formed at “Entrepreneur Paul” Atkinson’s temples. The graduates sat before him as he and the rest of the panelists on the dais surveyed the thousands in the crowd. There existed the irony that Atkinson would deliver the commencement speech to the high school in which he dropped out not too long ago. He had memorized his speech. He had spent enough time at the school to know the hangout spots and the rituals that some of the upperclassmen participated in during this time.
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The lord's Silent Bride Part 2
The golden light of morning spilled gently through the open silk curtains, casting soft patterns across the polished floors of the castle dining hall. The clink of porcelain echoed faintly, delicate and refined, as breakfast was served in elegant lacquered dishes.
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A Ship Was Gaining
1782, CHARLES TOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA Mary Read. Calico Jack. Anne Bonny. Our names were known to many upon the seas and outside of them. We were wanted, dead or alive. Although if we were to be brought back alive, we would just end up dead. Really, the saying should be dead or deader; you can’t win either way.
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Mary Read
1782, CHARLES TOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA The day we met Mary Read, we were anchored down at another dock, to resupply and celebrate our newest spoils. Our usual method of celebration was enjoying the pleasures of the local tavern, drinking our fill and flirting with anything that had legs.
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Businesswoman Chapter 159. Top Story - June 2025.
As the trio rode to the ThruMotors site, electricity hung in the air. Excitement abounded. Their pay cuts didn’t mean as much as the value of further extending the reach of privatization in Delaware of various government organizations. Atkinson peered out the window.
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SlenderPump Rules
The walls of PUMP hadn't changed in four years. The neon still pulsed soft pink. The booths still felt velvety soft. And the smell--spiced alcohol, polished leather, and something else faintly unnatural--still hit the same way when you walked in.
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Businesswoman Chapter 157
Preparation for speeches gave Loreen time to think. She understood the role it played in her psyche. The order, the timing, the way she could earn three hundred million dollars for just delivering a message. When she had laid down the first draft of the speech, she journeyed to the firing range on her property and left off a few rounds.
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