“You did when you chose to lie onstage.”
Grant grabbed the edge of the podium.
“You would take everything?”
Seraphina’s voice became almost gentle.
“No, Grant.”
Then came the first twist no one expected.
“I’m giving Holloway Meridian to its employees.”
Grant blinked.
“What?”
Bellamy Holdings had the right to take operational control under the default provisions.
Seraphina announced that the viable divisions would be reorganized into an employee-owned company.
Retirement accounts would be protected.
Current construction workers would keep their jobs.
Vendors would be paid.
Hospitals and housing projects would continue.
Grant, Mavis, Brielle, and Delaney would receive nothing from the restructuring.
Grant stared at her.
“You can’t do that.”
“I already did.”
Applause began somewhere near the back.
Then another person joined.
Then another.
Within seconds, the ballroom erupted.
Grant looked around as if applause were physical blows.
The people he had spent years trying to impress were standing for the wife he had left at home washing dishes.
