Chapter 5: The Corporate Purge
The board meeting scheduled for the following Monday was the most anticipated event in the company's history. Vanessa was gone, but Marcus—the CFO—walked into the boardroom with the swagger of a man who thought he was still in control. He sat at the head of the table, nodding at the other board members, completely unaware that David and Sarah were waiting in the private suite connected to the room.
David entered the room, the heavy oak doors swinging open with a thud. The room fell dead silent. He didn't sit. He walked straight to the CFO’s chair and slammed the digital files onto the table.
"The audit is complete, Marcus," David said, his voice echoing off the mahogany walls. "We know about the offshore accounts in the Caymans. We know about the leak to our competitors."
Marcus stood up, his face turning beet red. "You have no proof! This is a smear campaign!"
Sarah stepped out from behind the door, holding a small digital recorder. "I have the recordings of your conversations with Vanessa, Marcus. Every single one. You talked about the embezzlement as if it were a game. You thought the 'maid' on the tarmac wouldn't understand the numbers, but I wrote the software that tracked them."
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The board members gasped. The CFO looked at Sarah, then at David, and realized he was utterly cornered. He collapsed back into his seat, his head sinking into his hands as the security team moved in to escort him out.
The purge was total. Within an hour, David and Sarah had reclaimed total control of the company, cutting out the corruption that had threatened to bring the empire down from the inside.
