Chapter 2 - The Woman Who Owned the CompanyI didn't disappear.
I simply stopped being Mrs. Albright.
My attorney, Rebecca Sloan, was waiting at the private residence I had arranged weeks earlier.
“You actually did it.”
I placed my suitcase down.
“Yes.”
She hugged me.
Then she looked at my face.
“Are you okay?”
“I will be.”
She nodded.
“Did he open the report?”
“Yes.”
“And?”
“Chaos.”
Rebecca smiled.
“Good.”
I sat down.
“Tell me what happens next.”
She opened a folder.
“Your fifty-one percent voting interest remains untouched.”
“Good.”
“Connor doesn't know about the emergency control provisions.”
“He never asked.”
Rebecca shook her head.
“That man never understood how much power you actually had.”
I smiled.
“He understood exactly what I allowed him to understand.”
The next morning, I called an emergency board meeting.
Connor didn't attend.
Beatrice did.
She arrived furious.
“You're trying to destroy my son's company.”
I looked at her calmly.
“No.”
“This is a family business.”
“No.”
“It belongs to the Albright family.”
I opened a document.
“It belongs to the shareholders.”
Beatrice stared at me.
“And you own fifty-one percent of the voting shares.”
“Yes.”
Her face tightened.
“You're using this to punish Connor.”
“No.”
“Then what are you doing?”
“Protecting what I built.”
The board meeting lasted four hours.
By the end, three directors resigned.
Two were removed.
A forensic audit was authorized.
And every transaction involving Paige Callahan was placed under investigation.
Connor finally arrived.
He looked exhausted.
He walked into the conference room.
Everyone became silent.
“Gwen.”
I looked up.
“Mr. Albright.”
His face fell.
“You're calling me Mr. Albright?”
“Professionally.”
He sat across from me.
“You can't do this.”
“I already did.”
“You're freezing my authority.”
“Temporarily.”
“You're humiliating me.”
I stared at him.
“You brought another woman into our home with newborn children and expected me to accept an $80 million bribe.”
“It wasn't a bribe.”
“What was it?”
He couldn't answer.
Beatrice spoke.
“You're still his wife.”
I turned toward her.
“Not for long.”
Connor looked at me.
“Please don't file.”
I studied him.
“Why?”
“Because I still love you.”
I almost laughed.
“You loved me enough to betray me.”
“I was confused.”
“No.”
I shook my head.
“You were selfish.”
The meeting ended.
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But the audit had only begun.
And within forty-eight hours, the investigators found something far more dangerous than an affair.
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