Chapter 13 – The Lights
The room went cold.
“You knew,” one woman whispered.
Preston looked around desperately now, like a king realizing the castle gates were already open.
“This is extortion,” he snapped.
“No,” I said quietly. “This is the part where powerful men discover records survive longer than intimidation.”
His phone buzzed. Then another executive’s. Then another.
News alerts.
Federal investigators had officially opened an inquiry into Vale Meridian Holdings.
The timing was not accidental.
Because while Beckett was busy trying to destroy Ella publicly, Daniel Cho had been feeding prosecutors privately.
Preston stared at me with naked hatred.
“You destroyed my family.”
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I rose slowly from my chair.
“No,” I said. “Your family built itself on fear. I simply turned on the lights.”
