Chapter 34
Melanie's POV
By four o’clock the next day, I was seated across from the legal team in a conference room, staring at a group of executives who had once trusted Idris with everything.
Now, they were demanding compensation for the millions they’d lost in the collapse tied to his decisions. Their voices rose, frustration thick in the air, while our lawyers scrambled to do damage control.
Thankfully, my father was absent for the meeting.
Yet my mind wasn’t on this as it lingered on what the PI had said. Jason had stopped by the office that morning with news, his tone still cool and professional: the embezzlement trail led from a now-missing senior accountant, Jerome Castillo, to the mysterious Lucy Hale.
It was obvious that Lucy Hale was the key, and we agreed to focus the in
