Chapter 17 - The Final Humiliation
Ethan fell heavily to his knees right in the middle of the luxurious boardroom, completely abandoning any remaining shred of his dignity.
He desperately begged Claire for absolute mercy, violently sobbing that Julian Vance had forced him to forge the illegal documents.
Margaret was furiously screaming at her own son, violently slapping his shoulder and blaming him entirely for their absolute, complete ruin.
The independent board members watched the pathetic, disgusting display with sheer, unadulterated horror and intense secondhand embarrassment.
Claire simply stood there, her face completely devoid of any emotion, watching the two people who had tortured her finally destroy themselves.
"You both deserve exactly what is coming to you," Claire whispered coldly, ensuring every single person in the room heard her clearly.
She signaled the massive security guards, who immediately grabbed Ethan and Margaret by their cheap, worn-out collars.
They were violently dragged out of the beautiful boardroom, desperately screaming and kicking all the way toward the private elevators.
When they were finally thrown aggressively out onto the cold, unforgiving concrete of the busy Chicago street, a massive crowd of reporters was waiting.
The media had already caught wind of the massive Vance corporate scandal, and they immediately swarmed the disgraced Harringtons with blinding cameras.
Ethan desperately tried to shield his face, but a reporter aggressively shoved a microphone directly into his completely tear-stained face.
Margaret snapped completely, violently swinging her cheap purse at the aggressive paparazzi while screaming highly inappropriate, delusional insults.
The entire humiliating, pathetic meltdown was broadcast completely live on multiple national financial news networks for the entire world to see.
Down the street, Julian Vance was aggressively shoved into the back of a federal police cruiser, his wrists bound tightly in cold steel handcuffs.
Ethan desperately ran toward the police car, violently pounding on the heavy glass window and screaming for the money Julian had promised him.
Julian simply laughed cruelly through the thick glass, loudly telling the federal agents that Ethan was the sole mastermind behind the forgery.
Ethan collapsed onto the dirty, wet sidewalk in absolute, complete despair, realizing he was absolutely going to federal prison for corporate fraud.
Margaret sat down next to him in a muddy puddle, completely ruining her heavily discounted dress, wildly weeping for her lost, pathetic life.
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Up in the towering penthouse, Claire watched the chaotic, highly satisfying scene unfold on the massive television screens.
She took a deep, incredibly peaceful breath, knowing the toxic poison of her past was finally, permanently completely extracted.
