He displayed a financial summary on the boardroom monitor.
The details were visible to those in the room but deliberately blurred on my clinic feed.
Jonathan had made sure no sensitive text would be exposed beyond the secure meeting.
He described each payment aloud.
Funds had moved from construction reserves into temporary accounts.
Those accounts paid Sienna’s company.
From there, money covered a luxury apartment, jewelry, international travel, and personal expenses charged during weeks Landon told me he was negotiating land acquisitions.
Sienna leaned toward him.
“You said those were executive benefits.”
Landon did not look at her.
“Do not speak.”
Her face changed.
It was the first crack between them.
Jonathan continued.
“At eight forty-three this morning, Mr.
Pierce authorized the largest transfer yet.
It was marked as a deposit for an acquisition that the investment committee never reviewed.”
“I have emergency authority,” Landon said.
“Not for a payment to your mistress.”
A board member pushed back from the table.
Landon struck the wood with his palm.
“She is a consultant.”
“Then she can identify the asset being acquired,” Jonathan said.
Everyone looked at Sienna.
She swallowed.
“Landon handled the transaction.”
“What was the acquisition?”
“I was told the money was being placed temporarily.”
“Where?”
“In my firm’s account.”
“For what purpose?”
Sienna looked at Landon again.
He gave her a warning stare.
She understood it, but fear had begun replacing loyalty.
“He said we needed to move it before Ava gained control,” she whispered.
The sentence landed harder than a confession shouted across the room.
Landon stood so quickly that his chair rolled backward.
“You ignorant little fool.”
Sienna recoiled.
“You told me she would be gone.”
Silence swallowed the boardroom.
Landon turned toward her with raw panic on his face.
“What did you say?”
Sienna realized too late that she had exposed more than the transfer.
“You said she would not be able to interfere,” she stammered.
“That is what I meant.”
But everyone had heard the first version.
You told me she would be gone.
Jonathan closed the audit folder.
“Thank you.
That statement will be preserved with the meeting recording.”
Landon pointed at the camera.
“Ava planned this.
She and her grandfather trapped me with those financing documents.
She has been spying on the company.”
“My grandfather ordered an independent audit after the project reserves stopped matching your reports,” I said.
