Chapter 3: The Digital Reckoning
Marcus scrambled toward his father-in-law, his face a mask of panic. "You can't do that! That's a private matter! If you leak that, you destroy your own daughter's reputation too!"
"My daughter’s reputation is resilient, Marcus," Arthur said, his eyes radiating a lethal, untouchable calm. "Yours, however, is about to be liquidated."
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Arthur pressed 'send' on the tablet. Marcus watched in horror as the high-definition footage was instantly uploaded to the servers of his company’s board of directors, the major news outlets, and his primary financial backers. The notification pings on his own phone began to ring incessantly, a symphony of his impending doom.
Marcus realized the truth: his father-in-law had been recording his every move for months, suspecting the abuse he had inflicted behind closed doors. The evidence was undeniable, high-definition, and now, public.
