The small, static-heavy television screen in the correctional facility's common room flickered with the bright, artificial glare of studio lighting.
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Chapter 6 - THE COLLAPSE OF THE DYNASTYThe fall of Adrian Vale was the fastest political implosion in modern state history.
Within twenty-four hours, Celeste Monroe’s family office released a scathing public statement annulling her engagement and cutting all financial ties to the disgraced candidate. The campaign offices were shuttered, donors fled in droves, and the state bar association launched an immediate investigation into the attorneys who had helped facilitate the cover-up.
Adrian sat in a maximum-security holding facility, stripped of his suits, his campaign, and his freedom, realizing that the woman he thought he had buried alive had just destroyed his entire world from a prison phone.
