Chapter 8 - Escorted Out in Handcuffs
Julian thrashing and kicked against the guards' grip as he was dragged toward the glass executive elevators.
Chloe Thorne was led out right in front of him, sobbing loudly as her luxury designer bag was confiscated by human resources. The stolen white-gold watch was unclasped from her wrist and carefully placed inside a velvet evidence bag by the legal team.
As the elevator descended toward the ground floor lobby, Julian looked through the glass walls at the hundreds of employees gathered below.
Word had spread like wildfire across the thirty floors of Whitmore Holdings headquarters. News crews, corporate photographers, and financial journalists—who had been invited by Julian himself to document his supposed promotion—were waiting in the main lobby with flashing cameras.
Instead of seeing Julian Vance take the stage as Executive Vice Chairman, the press captured high-resolution photographs of him being led out of the building in handcuffs by corporate security and police officers.
"Clear the way! Move back!" the officers commanded as flashbulbs burst in Julian's terrified face.
Reporters thrust microphones into his face, yelling rapid-fire questions:
"Mr. Vance, is it true you embezzled nearly half a million dollars?!"
"Did you really try to fire the owner of Whitmore Holdings?!"
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Julian buried his face in his shoulder, trying in vain to hide from the blinding lights as he was pushed into the back of a waiting police cruiser.
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