Brandon: Chairman Sterling, you can't ruin my family's business over a minor disagreement!
Harrison: Minor disagreement? You put your hands on my child in a public hall that my trust owns!
Brandon: She was disrespecting my bride! She ruined our entrance!
Maya: You shoved me out into the hall yourself, Brandon! I was trying to leave quietly through the side exit!
Harrison raised his hand, silencing the room instantly.
Harrison: Thomas, bring the documents.
His senior attorney, a sharp man in wire-rimmed glasses, stepped forward carrying a thick leather briefcase. He opened it and pulled out three separate legal folders.
Thomas: Chairman Sterling, the emergency injunctions have already been signed by the state supreme court judge.
Harrison: Read them aloud, Thomas. Let everyone in this room hear what kind of people Brandon and Arthur Sterling really are.
Thomas: First, all credit lines extended to Arthur Sterling's management corporation by Sterling Global Bank are frozen immediately. Second, a formal audit has been ordered regarding two million dollars in missing regional operational funds.
Arthur gasped, reaching for his heart as if he were having a medical emergency.
Groom's Father: Audit?! What missing funds?!
Thomas: We have evidence showing you transferred venue maintenance budgets into your son's personal offshore accounts to pay for his lavish wedding today.
The crowd of five hundred guests erupted into wild chatter. People began pulling out their phones, filming the entire confrontation.
Guest 1: Did he say embezzled money?!
Guest 2: They paid for this wedding with stolen corporate funds?!
Guest 3: Unbelievable! And they tried to frame that poor girl for stealing a ring!
Chloe turned on Brandon, her eyes wide with rage as she grabbed his tuxedo lapels.
Chloe: Brandon! What is he talking about?! You told me your family was paying for this whole wedding out of your personal trust fund!
Brandon: Chloe, calm down! The audit is a mistake!
Chloe: Is your family broke?! Answer me!
Maya: His family has been insolvent for over six months, Chloe. My father's legal team has been tracking their shell companies since March.
Chloe: You knew about this?!
Maya: I came down here today to give Brandon a chance to confess to my father before the federal marshals were called. But instead of listening, he shoved me to the ground.
Brandon dropped to his knees right there on the marble floor, looking up at Maya with tears of desperation in his eyes.
Brandon: Maya... please! We were friends in college! You know I didn't mean to hurt you!
Maya: Friends? You called me a piece of trash five minutes ago, Brandon.
Brandon: I was under stress! Chloe's family was threatening to cancel the wedding if we didn't show them the luxury suite!
Chloe: Don't you dare blame this on me, you fraud! You lied to my father about your assets!
Chloe's father, a prominent real estate mogul, stood up from his front-row seat and marched down the aisle toward the altar.
Bride's Father: Chloe, strip that tiara off right now! This wedding is over!
Chloe: Dad! My flowers! My dress! My guests!
Bride's Father: I don't give a damn about the dress! We're not marrying into a family of embezzlers who are about to go to federal prison!