Chapter 3 - The Broken Contract
Three years ago, Maya was not a rival; she was the brilliant chief biomedical engineer at Vance Dynamics, the powerhouse tech firm owned by Victoria’s father, Richard Vance. Maya had spent a decade developing revolutionary neural-integrated prosthetics—technology designed to give millions of paralyzed people the ability to walk again.
It was her life's work. It was supposed to be her legacy.
But Richard and Victoria Vance saw only dollar signs and leverage. When Maya refused to sell her master patents exclusively to defense contractors who wanted to weaponize the neural tech, the Vances took drastic measures. A sabotage incident at the research facility ended in a catastrophic explosion. Maya survived, but at the cost of both her lower limbs.
While Maya lay in a medically induced coma, Richard Vance forged her signature on a full surrender of intellectual property, claiming her research as company asset and throwing her out with a generic severance package.
They thought a crippled, penniless engineer would quietly fade into obscurity. They thought they had erased her.
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They did not know that Maya had spent every single night of her three-year recovery building a secret empire from a small basement workshop, waiting for the exact night Vance Dynamics was scheduled to go public.
👉 Read PART 4 to find out how Maya infiltrated the private gala without anyone noticing!
