Chapter 4: Seventy-Two Hours Later
Chapter 4: Seventy-Two Hours Later
Exactly three days after Grant issued his ultimatum, television news vans lined the street outside Holloway headquarters.
Federal agents entered carrying boxes.
Search warrants.
Evidence bags.
Employees watched in stunned silence.
Grant stormed outside shouting at reporters.
"This is political!"
No one listened.
Minutes later, Margaret was escorted out in handcuffs.
She still wore pearls.
But for the first time in decades...
No one admired them.
At that exact moment, my diner was overflowing.
Customers waited nearly an hour for a table.
People came not just for the food.
They came because they had heard what happened.
Because they believed Hannah.
Because kindness has a longer memory than fear.
Grant looked up from the back seat of a police cruiser just as the evening news announced:
"Holloway Select Markets faces multiple federal investigations following allegations of financial crimes, witness intimidation, and domestic abuse."
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For the first time...
He looked afraid.
