Chapter 15 - THE GLOBAL FALLOUTTwo weeks later, the business pages of The Wall Street Journal carried a front-page exposé that shook the financial sector to its core:
AEGIS TECH FOUNDER MARA MERCER UNVEILS MASSIVE PHILANTHROPY INITIATIVE; ARCHITECTURE FIRM ASSETS RESTRUCTURED UNDER PUBLIC TRUST.
From my 85th-floor penthouse office, the morning sunlight flooded across polished mahogany floors.
Daniel Mercer had officially filed for bankruptcy, his architectural license suspended by state ethics boards for financial malpractice, and his high-society friends had vanished like smoke.
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Vanessa Crane’s family had quietly cut her off from their trusts after her association with Daniel’s fraudulent dealings came to light.
As for me? I walked over to the floor-to-ceiling glass window, looking out over the city I had conquered on my own terms.
