Richard: Your Grace, calling in those loans immediately will liquidate our entire commercial real estate division!
Freya: I am aware, Richard. That is precisely why I signed the order.
Kane: Freya, look at me! We were going to spend our lives together! We were building a home!
Freya: You were building a cage, Kane. You wanted a quiet wife who would bow to your family's arrogance.
Kane: That's not true! I loved you!
Freya: If you loved me, you would have stood between your cousin and me when she raised her hand. Instead, you asked me what I did to provoke her.
Kane opened his mouth, but no words came out. The truth of her statement hung in the air like heavy iron.
Richard: Is there no room for negotiation? A financial settlement? An exchange of non-voting stock shares?
Freya: None. My legal team has already filed the foreclosure papers with the state court.
She signaled to her chief attorney, who handed a secondary blue folder to Lord Richard.
Attorney: Furthermore, we are initiating a formal audit into Vance Holdings for tax evasion and corporate embezzlement connected to your nephew Julian's account.
Richard gasped, clutching his chest as he sank heavily back into his chair.
Richard: How did you... how did you access those private accounts?
Freya: My family built the banking system this city operates on, Richard. There is no account I cannot see.
Kane: Father... what is she talking about? What embezzlement?
Richard: Be quiet, Kane!
Freya: Your father has been skimming three million dollars annually from the public infrastructure fund to pay for your family's penthouses and luxury vehicles.
Kane looked at his father in complete horror as two uniformed officers from the Financial Crime Division stepped into the boardroom doorway.
Officer 1: Richard Vance, you are under arrest for grand larceny, corporate fraud, and misuse of public funds.
Richard: This is a misunderstanding! Call my defense lawyers immediately!
Officer 1: You have the right to remain silent. Put your hands behind your back, sir.
The officers snapped steel handcuffs around Richard's wrists, leading the humiliated executive out of his own boardroom as corporate members looked on in silence.
Kane stood alone near the table, his world collapsing around him in a matter of minutes.
Kane: Freya... what am I supposed to do now? I have nothing left.
Freya: You have your freedom, Kane. I suggest you use it to learn how to be a better man.
She turned on her heel and walked out of the conference room, her heels clicking softly against the marble floor as her security team fell into formation behind her.
Kane slumped into his father's abandoned chair, staring blankly at the dark screen on the wall, realizing that his arrogance had cost him the only true treasure he would ever hold.