Three Days Later
Lina sat inside a conference room at Hale Continental Freight.
Not near the exit.
Beside Marcus Hale.
“Say whatever you see,” Marcus told her. “No hesitation.”
She did.
Misclassified liabilities. Losses inflated beyond reality. Debt accelerated on paper to force a collapse that shouldn’t have happened.
A pattern revealed itself.
This wasn’t mismanagement.
It was manipulation.
The company’s CFO, Richard Voss, left before the meeting was over.
Two weeks later, independent auditors confirmed everything.
Money had been siphoned through shell vendors. Losses disguised as operating costs. Numbers bent just enough to remain concealed.
Richard Voss was removed pending investigation.
