Chapter 2: The Hidden Designer
Chapter 2: The Hidden Designer
The board members demanded an immediate private meeting.
Within minutes, executives crowded into the conference suite overlooking the ballroom.
Regina continued insisting Maya was lying.
Until Human Resources arrived carrying archived personnel files.
The oldest director carefully opened the folder.
Inside were performance reviews.
Design approvals.
Original pattern drafts.
Every document carried Maya's signature.
Then came another file.
A resignation letter.
Except...
It wasn't signed by Maya.
Someone had forged it.
The legal advisor's face turned pale.
"This signature doesn't match."
The room erupted.
Regina's voice became desperate.
"There must be some mistake."
"There wasn't," another executive replied quietly.
Security footage from three years earlier was projected onto the screen.
The recording showed Regina entering the design studio after everyone had left.
She removed Maya's portfolio from a cabinet.
The next morning, Regina announced the new collection under her own leadership.
No one had questioned it.
Until tonight.
Back in the ballroom, the investors had already learned the truth.
One after another...
Major sponsors quietly informed the organizers they would suspend future partnerships pending investigation.
The gala no longer celebrated luxury.
It had become evidence.
Regina looked around desperately.
The employees she had bullied avoided her eyes.
The assistants she had humiliated stepped away.
Even the executives who once defended her remained silent.
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Power built on fear disappears quickly.
Respect built on truth lasts much longer.
