Chapter 5 - The Price of TreasonThe police arrived in force. Mark Grayson, the man who had played the dutiful husband, was taken out in cuffs, shouting accusations that no one believed. Victoria, the mastermind who thought she had outsmarted a man she deemed an "old man," was unceremoniously escorted from the building she had hoped to own.
In the aftermath, the board went through a radical transformation. Seven members were removed for negligence or complicity. We had to rebuild from the ground up, but for the first time in years, the office felt clean.
Emily sat in my office that evening. We were both exhausted. The weight of the last few months had finally begun to lift.
"I'm sorry you had to go through this, Dad," she said.
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"You saved the company, Emily," I replied. "You saved me."
We looked at the empty chairs. The struggle had been painful, but it had revealed who was truly loyal and who had been waiting for us to falter.
