Chapter 17 - The Global Broadcast
Within twenty minutes, every financial news outlet in the Western Hemisphere received a high-priority encrypted media stream originating directly from the Vance Cay master communications tower.
Victoria, still standing triumphantly on the deck of her yacht, had no idea that the camera feed on the hovering news drones had just been hijacked.
Instead of showing an intimidated, isolated ex-wife hiding in her villa, the screen split on television networks worldwide. On the left was Victoria on her megayacht; on the right was me, sitting behind the grand oak desk of the Vance Cay boardroom, flanked by certified forensic audit ledgers.
"Good morning, Victoria," my voice projected across the bay through the island's coastal emergency speakers, echoing off the limestone cliffs like thunder.
Victoria stiffened, looking up at the drones in shock.
"You came here today claiming Vance Cay as your family's sacred legacy," I said, looking straight into the drone's high-definition camera lens. "You told the press I swindled your son. But let’s show the world what the Vance legacy actually consists of."
With a single tap on my tablet, the digital screens of every major news room in New York, London, and Zurich lit up with the contents of Sloane’s San Juan drive.
Document after document scrolled across the global broadcast:
Wire transfers proving Victoria had personally siphoned sixty million dollars from employee retirement funds to settle private margin calls in Monaco.
Audio recordings of Victoria explicitly commanding Sloane to fabricate paternity claims against Richard to force a renegotiation of my divorce settlement.
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And finally, the devastating 1994 maritime records documenting illegal toxic waste storage concealed beneath the bedrock of Section 4-B—an environmental crime carrying non-bailable federal racketeering charges.
On the yacht's deck, Victoria’s face drained of every drop of blood. Her lawyers frantically waved their hands, trying to force her inside the cabin, but she stood paralyzed as her entire empire imploded before ten million live viewers.
