Chapter 6 - The Black NotebookChinedu staggered backward, tears welling up in his eyes. “Mama... I didn't know... Emeka and Vanessa said you were losing your mind, they said it was just a temporary administrative transfer to protect the company—!”
“Shut up, Chinedu!” Emeka shrieked, panic breaking through his polished corporate facade. “She’s lying! Security! Remove this impostor from the building!”
Not a single security guard moved.
Instead, the side door of the boardroom opened, and two uniformed federal economic crime investigators walked in, accompanied by my chief corporate legal counsel, Barrister Bayo Afolabi—the very lawyer Emeka had hired, who had secretly remained loyal to my primary trust.
Barrister Afolabi stepped forward, opening a thick leather portfolio.
“Emeka Ashiru,” Afolabi announced clearly, reading from the official document. “You are formally implicated in corporate wire fraud, embezzlement, and conspiracy to commit identity fraud against Okafor Meridian Group.”
Emeka lunged toward the exit, but the federal investigators moved swiftly, pinning his arms behind his back and snapping heavy steel handcuffs around his wrists.
“You can’t do this!” Emeka screamed as he was dragged toward the double doors. “I’m the finance director! I’m family!”
“You were family as long as you respected the roof over your head,” I said coldly, watching him leave.
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Silence descended upon the boardroom once again—a heavy, suffocating silence.
I turned back to face the remaining board members, then let my eyes rest on my son, who stood weeping quietly by his chair.
