When Your Cheating Husband's Dream Become Your Divorce Evidence novel Chapter 53

Chapter 6

That evening, I received a risk control email from the brokerage: [Due to abnormal volatility in StarMed Medical, your 1.5% pledged options have been forcibly liquidated.]

I stared at the screen and laughed.

He’d made his move, as expected.

But the liquidation was just step one-three days ago, I’d secretly switched the pledge contract to include an “additional collateral clause, with my mom’s zoon-to-be-demolished house as backup.

He thought that $200K demolition payment was already in his pocket, but didn’t know the demolition office had received my lawyer’s letter and suspended the

ayout.

How the brokerage couldn’t find the collateral and could only book the liquidation loss off-balance-sheet-with ultimate responsibility falling on the

ecision-maker: VP Dylan Morrison.

ext day, financial headlines exploded:

StarMed Medical VP Suspected of High-Price Purchase of “Air Art,” Possible Eraudulent Cash-Out]

Minority Shareholder Stella Parker Files Formal Complaint, Demands Removal of Dylan Morrison]

tock hit limit down, institutions fled.

ylan smashed coffee cups in the conference room, porcelain shards cutting his fingers, blood dripping on documents.

He gave the PR department a death order: “Kill the trending topics within three days.”

he PR director whispered back: “Can’t kill them. Mr. Hartwell bought the trending spots.”

ex Hartwell, former financial crimes detective-he knew exactly how to fan flames to maximum heat.

That night, Dylan came home without his usual polish, dark circles under his eyes.

sat in the living room with an open bottle of 1982 Lafite-his prized collection, sixty-eight thousand a bottle.

Mr. Morrison,” I swirled the wine, “this bottle was charged to StarMed’s marketing budget. I checked the invoice-listed under ‘client relationship

maintenance.””

He stood in the entryway, voice hoarse: “Stella Parker, what exactly do you want?”

set down the glass, enunciating each word: “Transfer my mom’s two thousand monthly allowance to her account. Now.”

He laughed coldly: “Over two thousand dollars, you crashed the company stock to limit down?”

looked up: “It’s not about the two thousand. It’s about showing you that supporting our parents is our responsibility.”

He fell silent for three seconds, then pulled out his phone and opened mobile banking.

52,000.00, memo: Support payment.]

stood and pushed a new folder toward him: “Second condition-resign from StarMed Medical VP position. Sign here.”

Dylan opened the document, his finger trembling over the word “resignation.”

Suddenly he laughed, voice like shattered ice: “Stella Parker, you think kicking me out of the company means I’ll leave with nothing? Don’t forget, I’m the sol

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