Chapter 34 - The Absolute Panic
The board members began shouting over one another, the mahogany table suddenly feeling like a battlefield. Julian slammed his hand on the table, demanding order, his face a mask of cold fury. Vance looked frantically around the room, realizing that his powerful allies had instantly abandoned him to protect their own interests.
The undeniable weight of digital forensics had crushed his decades of political capital in less than three minutes. He pointed a trembling, manic finger at me.
"You set me up. You laid a trap, you wretched little thing!"
I didn't blink. I didn't even recoil.
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"You chose to step into it, Marcus. You thought you could treat me like a victim you could silence. I just refused to be your scapegoat."
I closed my laptop with a sharp, final snap that sounded like a gunshot in the tense, dead-silent room.
