Chapter 3: The Fall of Adrian Vale
Chapter 3: The Fall of Adrian Vale
By sunrise...
Federal investigators had frozen every major corporate account connected to Vale Industries.
Banks suspended its credit facilities.
The board of directors held an emergency meeting.
Every news network carried the same headline.
VALE INDUSTRIES CEO UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.
Employees arriving for work found investigators already inside headquarters.
Boxes of documents left the building.
Hard drives were seized.
Lawyers refused to answer reporters' questions.
Inside a holding room at the courthouse, Adrian finally understood the truth.
Power borrowed from lies disappears quickly.
Vanessa tried to distance herself.
"I didn't know about the financial crimes."
The prosecutor calmly pressed the play button.
Again, her voice filled the room.
"Again."
"She deserves another one."
May you like
Silence.
She had recorded her own cruelty without ever realizing it.
