Chapter 9 - The Paraded CEO
The news had already broken across Manhattan financial news outlets.
As the officers escorted Julian out of the bank doors in heavy steel handcuffs, dozens of news crews and photojournalists were waiting on the sidewalk. Flashbulbs went off in a blinding flurry as reporters shouted questions into microphones.
"Mr. Vance! Is it true you abandoned your wife in labor to commit fraud?"
"Julian! Did you attempt to steal forty million dollars from your newborn son's trust?"
Julian hung his head in utter shame, hiding his face from the cameras as he was shoved into the back of a police cruiser. From across the street, sitting quietly inside the tinted rear seat of her luxury sedan, Evelyn watched the entire scene unfold.
She held her baby boy—now named Arthur, after her late father—resting against her shoulder. Her face was calm, serene, and devoid of any remaining sorrow.
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She had survived the darkest night of her life, and now the morning had finally arrived.
👉 Read PART 10 to see what happened during the emergency custody hearing!
