Chapter 14 - Charles Faces Total Financial Ruin
“You... you engineered a hostile takeover of my company?” Charles stammered, standing up so fast his leather chair crashed backward onto the floor.
“I didn't engineer a hostile takeover, Charles; I simply reclaimed the assets my mother originally invested twenty-five years ago,” Claire stated coldly.
The legal counsel accompanying Claire stepped forward, dropping a thick stack of forensic audit files onto the pristine desk.
“Furthermore, the federal prosecutor's office has been furnished with complete documentation regarding your fraudulent asset transfers and embezzlement,” the lawyer announced.
Charles stumbled backward against the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking out over the bustling harbor where his shipping empire was slipping through his fingers.
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“You can't do this to me! I am your father! I raised you in this house!” Charles shrieked, his veneer of corporate arrogance completely shattered.
“You kept me in a storage room while you built a fraudulent empire on my mother's grave,” Claire replied without a trace of emotion.
