Chapter 2: Truth Has Witnesses
Chapter 2: Truth Has Witnesses
By sunrise...
The news had already spread.
Financial networks reported that Andrew's company had entered emergency restructuring.
Investors demanded answers.
Reporters gathered outside the mansion.
Inside...
Chaos ruled.
Margaret screamed at lawyers.
Brenda packed expensive jewelry into designer suitcases.
Neither of them noticed that security guards had quietly changed sides.
They now answered to Escalante Capital.
Andrew rushed to headquarters.
His access card failed.
The lobby doors remained closed.
Then he saw me.
Standing inside the executive lobby.
Wearing a tailored black suit.
Confident.
Calm.
Untouchable.
Behind me stood every member of the board.
The chairman stepped forward.
"Mr. Andrew Collins..."
"Your authority ended at midnight."
Andrew laughed.
"This is impossible."
"I built this company."
I placed a thin folder into his hands.
"The original shareholder agreement."
He opened it.
His smile vanished.
Years ago...
Without reading the legal language...
He had signed an emergency ownership clause.
If he committed fraud...
Domestic violence...
Or conduct damaging to the company's reputation...
Control would immediately return to the principal investor.
Me.
At that moment...
Another woman entered the lobby.
The housekeeper.
She held a small velvet jewelry box.
Inside...
The missing emerald necklace.
"It was hidden in Miss Brenda's dressing room."
Silence.
Brenda turned pale.
Margaret could barely breathe.
Andrew looked from the necklace...
To Brenda...
Then to me.
Everything he believed collapsed in a single heartbeat.
The cameras had recorded everything.
The accusation.
The slap.
The theft.
The lies.
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This time...
No one could rewrite the truth.
