Chapter 19
Author: Pink
last update2025-12-15 23:36:26

Marcus Wellington's face contorted with rage and terror, his designer suit suddenly looking like a costume on a panicked child. The lobby of Atlas Empire had become his stage of humiliation, every word echoing off marble walls to the hundred-plus employees frozen mid-step, phones already recording.

"Wellington Corporation has COMMITTED NO CRIMES!" he shouted at Sophia, spittle flying. "Everything was legal! Perfectly legal! The contracts were drafted by the best lawyers—"

"Lawyers you bribed wi
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