After 144 hours away with another woman, he finally remembered his pregnant wife. His shaken assistant told him, “Sir, your wife had a serious medical emergency and lost the baby. She has already signed the divorce papers and left.”

charged personal expenses to shareholders.”

Celeste stepped forward.

“That is ridiculous. Those were legitimate business expenses.”

Our CFO opened a second file.

“No,” he said. “They were not.”

Over eighteen months, Celeste had approved $680,000 in fabricated media retainers to her own LLC.

Adrian had signed every payment.

Then the CFO displayed internal messages recovered from a company device.

In one, Celeste joked that I was “too soft to ever challenge Adrian.”

In another, Adrian replied,

“Claire signs whatever I put in front of her.”

Several directors visibly reacted.