Elena POV
The final blow came three weeks after the shootout.
Damien didn’t just fight back. He scorched the earth. Using all the evidence we had gathered together, plus the files I had secretly kept, we leaked everything to federal investigators and rival media outlets that weren’t under the Senator’s control. Money laundering. Blackmail. The deliberate destruction of my father and dozens of other families. Proof that Lydia Harlan had actively participated.
The Senator was arrested on live television. Lydia’s empire of fake tears collapsed overnight. Damien’s board tried to stage a coup, but he burned the bridge himself. He sold off major assets, stepped down as CEO, and walked away from half his fortune.
For me.
For us.
We watched the news from a private villa on a secluded islan
