Chapter 377 – You Can Calm Me Down
Naomi's lips parted. Her eyes softened. "Lux…"
He leaned closer again, brushing her temple with his lips, whispering with the casual ease of a man planning a genocide in balance sheets.
"I'm going to bankrupt them, Naomi. No… more than that. More than what I did to Carson."
She shivered.
Not from fear.
From the sheer inevitability in his voice.
The way he said it—casual, soft, like he was planning brunch instead of economic annihilation.
And she loved him more for it.
Because this wasn't just power.
It was controlled, calculated vengeance.
It was the kind of threat that came gift-wrapped in contracts and bled its victims out through overdraft fees.
She touched his chest gently, her palm flat against silk. "You need to calm down first."
Lux tilted his head. That smirk played at the corner of his mouth again. But this one? Less CFO, more Incubus.
