Chapter 7 - THE NEW EMPIREThe following week, the front pages weren't about mergers. They were about the downfall of the Ashford Trust.
Jonathan had leaked everything. The laundering, the medical fraud, the hit on Victoria Chen. His wife was arrested in her own boardroom.
Tommy and his mother were safe in a secure location, waiting for the trial.
Clare sat in the back of the Mercedes, holding Tommy’s hand.
“I told you I’d marry you,” she said, her seven-year-old voice confident.
“We have to finish school first,” Tommy joked, his scar-notch looking less like a wound and more like a badge of honor.
Jonathan watched them in the rearview mirror. He was broke—he had liquidated his own accounts to secure Victoria’s safety and legal defense—but he felt richer than he had ever been.
He had lost his empire, but he had finally found his family.
And as the Mercedes drove away from the city, he realized that the best investment he ever made wasn't a $2 billion company.
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It was a box of noodles in the rain.
(The story expands through a dark conspiracy, but ultimately, the bonds of human sacrifice prove stronger than the cold, hard logic of billions.)
