Chapter 10 - FALL OF THE FIANCÉE
Chaos erupted in the boardroom. Shareholders gasped, stepping away from Vanessa as if she were radioactive. She lunged forward, her mask of sanity entirely shattered.
"She was nothing!" Vanessa screamed, pointing a trembling, manicured finger at Clara. "She was a nobody! I built your social standing, Ethan! I was the one who deserved the empire! I should have watched her burn in that car myself!"
"Thank you for the confession," one of the federal agents said smoothly, stepping forward with a pair of steel handcuffs. He clamped them onto Vanessa's wrists, reciting her Miranda rights as she thrashed and spat venom. As she was dragged out of the boardroom in disgrace, her shrieks echoed down the long corporate hallway until the elevator doors finally swallowed her up.
