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Arthur tapped the speakerphone button on his device, holding it up toward the lectern microphone.

"Bradley here," Arthur said.

"Arthur, this is Chancellor Miller from the Delaware Chancery Court," a severe female voice resonated through the house speakers. "We have reviewed the forensic submissions regarding the Vance Family Trust."

Victoria went entirely rigid, her knuckles turning bone-white against the marshal's sleeve.

"Proceed, Your Honor," Arthur said.

"Under the emergency provisions of the Delaware Trust Code, Victoria Vance is summarily stripped of all fiduciary, signatory, and administrative authority across all subsidiary entities," Chancellor Miller announced. "All executive voting rights revert instantaneously to the sole surviving biological issue of Jonathan Vance: Julian Vance, held in custodial trust for his verified heirs, Leo and Ethan Holloway."

The gavel sounded through the phone line—a single, concussive wooden strike that felt like a bullet through the center of Victoria's empire.

"No!" Victoria wailed, her legs giving out beneath her couture skirts.

The marshal held her upright by her arms, preventing her from collapsing onto the carpet.

"Furthermore," the judge continued, "the court issues an immediate freezing order covering all domestic and offshore accounts belonging to Victoria Vance pending a sixty-day forensic embezzlement audit."

Arthur disconnected the line with a crisp tap of his thumb.

He looked down at Victoria with clinical, unhurried disgust.

"You have twenty minutes to collect your personal effects from the hospitality suite, Victoria," Arthur said. "After that, the facility management team will re-key the access codes."

Preston stood up from the second row, his face flushed with humiliated rage.

"Mom!" he shouted, tears streaming down his cheeks. "Do something! Tell them to give us our seats back!"

Victoria couldn't answer him.

She looked up at me, her eyes wild, bloodshot, and filled with a desperate, calculating terror.

"Julian... please," she begged, reaching out a trembling, manicured hand toward my sleeve. "We’ve been married for twelve years. I protected your public standing! I built Preston into a prodigy for you! You can't cast us out into the street like this!"

I looked down at her hand, feeling nothing but a profound, chilling emptiness.

"Twelve years ago, you stood in my study while Elena was packed into a yellow cab in the rain," I said, my voice dead and absolute. "You handed me a glass of scotch and told me that broken dead weight had to be cut loose so the empire could grow."

I pulled my arm back, letting her fingers grasp empty air.

"Take your son, Victoria. And get out of my sight."

The marshals turned her around, marching her down the side exit aisle as sixty photographers finally broke through the security cordon, their strobe flashes illuminating every inch of her disgrace.

I turned back toward the stage, my boots heavy as iron against the hardwood.

I climbed the steps, stopping three feet from Leo and Ethan.

They didn't look away. They held my gaze with identical, unyielding gray eyes.

"Leo," I whispered, the name catching in my throat like glass. "Ethan."

Leo didn't smile. He adjusted his blazer cuffs, mimicking my exact nervous habit without even knowing it.

"Good evening, Mr. Vance," Leo said calmly.

Before I could speak, Elena stepped forward, pulling a weathered leather dispatch folder from under her arm.