CHAPTER 5: The Fall

By evening, the decision was final.
Victoria Hale was terminated.
Immediately.
But that wasn’t the part that shook her the most.
It was the silence of the people around her.
No one defended her.
No one followed her out.
Because deep down…
they all knew.
She had crossed a line long before today.
As she walked out of the hotel she once controlled, she glanced back one last time.
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But no one was looking at her anymore.
The story had already moved on.