The fallout was immediate and devastating. Within hours of Maya’s article hitting the wires, Kincaid Global’s stock plummeted. By market close, it had shed over 30% of its value, billions erased in a single day.
News channels plastered Arthur’s grim-faced image across every screen. The once-impeccable reputation of Kincaid Global, of the Kincaid family, was shattered. Calls for investigations, for answers, echoed across financial news networks.
That evening, the board of directors, bowing to immense investor pressure and public outcry, announced Arthur Kincaid’s “immediate retirement.” An interim CEO, a faceless corporate veteran, was named. Arthur was out. His power, his influence, dissolved overnight.
My phone rang incessantly, ignored. I watched the chaos unfold from my living room, the “justice” I thought I wanted now a maelstrom of destruction. There was no triumph, only a profound sense of loss.
Arthur was gone, his name synonymous with scandal. Yet, Silas Croft, the architect of the “special projects,” remained conspicuously absent from any public scrutiny. The article had focused on Arthur’s culpability, portraying Silas’s division as an extension of his will.
Arthur’s removal was purely corporate, a public disgrace, but not a criminal one. The underworld, as always, handled its own.
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