Chapter 15
Victoria’s smile faltered completely. "What are you talking about?"
Meredith turned away from her sister, walking calmly toward her executive chair at the head of the table. She picked up her cracked phone, tapped the screen, and connected to the boardroom’s main digital projector.
"When I audited Ethan’s offshore accounts in Dubai last week," Meredith explained smoothly, the giant screen behind her lighting up with financial flowcharts and encrypted wire transfer receipts, "I didn't just find his embezzlement trails. I found a shadow investor funneling millions into a shell corporation named Sterling Legacy LLC."
Victoria’s face drained of color. Her eyes darted to the screen.
"You see, Victoria," Meredith continued, her voice echoing in the silent room, "you’ve been living abroad in Zurich for the past decade, trying to build a war chest to reclaim our father's empire. But you didn't have the capital. So you partnered with the one man who wanted me destroyed more than anyone else."
The projection shifted. A new image appeared on the screen—a security camera still from a private airfield outside Denver, showing Victoria shaking hands with a bruised and desperate Ethan Rowe.
Gasps erupted around the boardroom.
"Ethan," Victoria whispered, her voice losing its polished venom.
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"My ex-husband," Meredith smiled coldly. "He was so blinded by his humiliation on the front steps of our estate this afternoon that he didn't realize he was just a pawn in your little family reunion. He gave you his remaining un-frozen asset keys in exchange for a promise to destroy me."
Victoria clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. "It doesn't matter. Even if Ethan helped fund this, the legal papers on that table are ironclad. The board has to vote on an emergency injunction!"
