“Those wires could mean anything!” Sarah shrieked.
“Of course they could,” I replied deadpan.
Eleanor looked at her daughter, her voice trembling. “Did you know about this?”
Sarah couldn’t look her mother in the eye. “It wasn’t my business…”
That single admission broke what was left of their alliance.
Eric shouted at Sarah for leaking information; Richard screamed at Sarah for dragging his business down; Eleanor began weeping and demanding answers about where her family’s money had actually gone. Within seconds, they turned on each other like wolves in front of fifty accredited investors and the local press.
Thomas Sterling raised a hand. “We’re done. I am calling an emergency board meeting to demand an immediate independent audit of Nebula Systems.”
“If you pull out, you’ll ruin the company!” Richard pleaded.
“Your company was already ruined, Richard,” Thomas snapped. “You were just using your brother-in-law’s fraud to cover the stench.”
