The moment Zachary Hawke was shoved into the police vehicle—hands cuffed, legs weak, dignity leaking out of him like a punctured balloon—the atmosphere inside the company shifted dramatically.
And he wasn’t the only one being taken away.
Two others were escorted out as well—Ace Kane, and Lora Hale.
But unlike Zachary, they didn’t have cold steel biting into their wrists.
Ace was taken because he was the whistleblower—someone who needed to cooperate with the investigation.
Lora was the company’s legal representative—she, too, was required for formal questioning.
Both of them walked steadily beside the investigators.
Meanwhile, Zachary Hawke—the once proud Deputy GM—was so terrified he had wet himself. Even when two officers had to drag him along, they still slapped the handcuffs on h
