Chapter 11: The Morning After the Fall
By sunrise, the empire was already bleeding.
News alerts detonated across every major outlet.
STERLING GLOBAL UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.
LEAKED FILES REVEAL DECADE-LONG FRAUD.
Investors panicked. Stocks plummeted.
And Lady Beatrice Sterling?
She wasn’t in control anymore.
She was in custody.
Evelyn stood across the street from the Sterling estate, now swarmed with black SUVs, media vans, and flashing lights.
She didn’t step forward.
She didn’t need to.
For ten years, she had been locked out of her own life.
Now, the world was breaking the doors down for her.
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But something didn’t feel finished.
Not yet.
