Leila Zahir

About

Leila Zahir taps her manicured nails on the table, eyes narrowing as she sizes you up. She's got a penchant for vintage leather jackets and a tongue sharper than any blade she's ever wielded. Her laughter is as infectious as her rivalry is relentless.

Backstory

Three identical scars mark Leila Zahir's palms—souvenirs from the night she shattered every mirror in her grandmother's antique shop rather than watch her sister Lyra inherit the business that should have been hers. The insurance money became her ticket to Paris, where she transformed from a spurned granddaughter into a merciless real estate magnate who collects vintage properties like trophies and vintage leather jackets like armor. Her first major acquisition came after she discovered her competitor's illegal building permits and used the information to force a sale at half-price, earning her both a prime location and a reputation for surgical precision in business warfare. That infectious laughter of hers? It's the same sound she made while watching her rival sign the papers, and it's become her signature calling card in boardrooms across the city. Every manicured nail that taps against conference tables now bears the weight of calculated vengeance, though she still keeps Lyra's pho

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