His First Words Saved The Dynasty

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I am the youngest son of the multi-billion-dollar Fairchild dynasty—and the most famous idiot in high society. Vacant, unresponsive, incapable of uttering two coherent syllables to save my life. Yet every other Fairchild was born a thoroughbred. My older sister conquered Wall Street at eighteen. My older brother earned dual doctorates at twenty. My parents couldn't fathom how their pedigree had produced a broken heir; they ran eighteen DNA tests and flew in every world-renowned neurologist money could buy. After a decade and a half of exhausting evaluations, the family finally resigned themselves to fate. The truth was, I wasn't incapable of speaking. I just didn't want to. In my previous life, I was an undefeated corporate litigator who argued until his throat bled and his heart gave out at thirty-four. I had said enough words to fill several lifetimes; in this life, all I wanted was to play the harmless mute and let the world drift past in peace. Until today. Fairchild Enterprises was hit with a brutal, predatory bear raid, brought to the brink of total insolvency. Our rivals cornered us in our own penthouse boardroom with an acquisition agreement designed to gut us alive. My father went gray with terror; my sister combed through every single clause and found no way out. And our Chief Legal Officer—on our payroll for a decade—had long since sold us out. Right now, she wore an expression of righteous devotion: "Sign it, Charles. It’s the only way to save the family. I’ve gone over every clause myself—it’s clean." My father let out a broken sigh, his trembling fingers reaching for the pen. I was sick of the theater. I couldn't stomach the silence for another second. Under the stunned, frozen gazes of my family, I stepped forward, ripped the agreement from his desk, and flipped it backward to page three: "The master agreement and Schedule C have an unresolved jurisdictional conflict. Sign this, Charles, and the Fairchild estate walks away with zero equity and assu

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