Chapter 4: The Fall of a King
Chapter 4: The Fall of a King
By sunrise, every news outlet carried the same headline.
Billionaire Empire Built on Thirty-Year Fraud.
Banks froze every Vane account.
Federal investigators executed search warrants across every corporate office.
Board members resigned one after another.
Investors abandoned the company overnight.
Cassandra quietly packed her jewelry before filing for divorce.
She publicly claimed she had known nothing.
No one believed her.
Julian was arrested before sunset.
As officers placed him in handcuffs outside his mansion, hundreds of reporters shouted questions.
He looked toward Eleanor.
"What happens now?"
She answered without anger.
"You finally live with the truth."
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The mansion that had symbolized absolute power now stood empty.
Within weeks it was sold to satisfy court judgments owed to Arthur Hawthorne's family and thousands of employees who had been cheated for decades.
