Chapter 4 - Whispers of the Past
My hands tightened around my glass until the crystal nearly shattered.
"Dr. Vance," I repeated, the name unlocking memories from nearly a decade ago. "The doctor who claimed our pharmaceutical wing was suppressing neurological recovery patents to keep patients dependent on lifelong medical hardware."
"Exactly," Marco confirmed. "Dominic had Dr. Vance ruined to protect Moretti Medical’s stock value. Elena took the housecleaning job under her mother’s maiden name not to steal from you, but to find her father's confiscated research notes. She believed those notes contained the exact therapy protocol needed to rehabilitate spinal nerve damage."
A heavy silence settled over the room.
Elena hadn't come to destroy my family. She had come seeking justice for her father—and in doing so, she had used her father’s suppressed medical science to heal my daughter.
"Where is Dominic right now?" I asked.
"He’s at the Manhattan corporate headquarters," Marco said. "He’s called an emergency board meeting for tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM. He’s planning to leverage your mother’s claims of 'instability at home' to vote you out as CEO."
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I stood up, adjusting my cuffs.
"Dominic thinks I’m a grieving father blinded by my daughter's illness," I said coldly. "It’s time to remind him why my father left the empire to me."
