Chapter 36
Chapter 36
Camille’s point of view
There’s a particular satisfaction in watching something fall apart from a distance, in witnessing the precise moment when confidence shatters and
reality crashes down Victoria had taught me that. “True power isn’t in the destruction itself,” she’d told me once, “but in knowing you orchestrated it while they never saw you coming.” As I sat at the head of the under the weight of their impending ruin.
I watched the numbers change on my tablet as Pacific Marline’s stock price plummeted. Each drop represented another piece of Stefan’s empire crumbling. The company’s board members sat across from me i “Your company lost forty percent of its value in the last hour,” I said, my voice carrying through the silent room. In fifteen minutes, when the market fully reacts to the news about your accounting irregularities, tha Michael Chen, Pacific Maritime’s CEO, gripped his water glass so hard I thought it might shatter. “These accusations are baseless.”
“Are they?” I slid a folder across the polished table. “Our audit team spent six months combing through your records. Every questionable contract, every hidden payment, every secret deal with Rodriguez Shipp it’s all there.”
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