PART 3: THE STRIPPED CROWN
“Vivienne…” Dominic choked out, his face draining of all color as the entire ballroom fell completely silent. The woman beside him frowned, tightening her grip on his arm. “Dominic, who is this woman?” she demanded loudly.
I stopped at the base of the stage, looking up at the man I had spent seven years supporting from the shadows. “I am the woman whose family bought you this building, this company, and the very suit on your back,” I said, my voice echoing clearly through the microphone system.
Gasps rippled across the room as my brothers stepped onto the stage, handing the chairman of the board a certified legal dossier. The chairman scanned the pages, his eyes widening in pure shock before looking at Dominic with absolute disdain.
“Dominic Cross,” the chairman announced into the main microphone. “As of two minutes ago, eighty-five percent of company shares have been recalled by the Sterling Global Corporation due to severe breach of contract and personal fraud.”
Dominic fell to his knees on the stage, looking frantically at the board members who were already turning their backs on him.
The woman beside him realized the horror of the situation, realizing that the empire she had tried to steal was entirely nonexistent without my name attached to it.
Dominic reached out, begging for a second chance, but the security team my brothers brought stepped forward to escort him out of his own gala.
(The ultimate new beginning for Vivienne and her daughter is here! Click “Next Page” to see how the story ends…)
