Broken Vows and Buried Twins novel Chapter 41

Over the span of five years, Melody and the finance department had been secretly funneling funds, siphoning off tens of millions from the company.

Gael and Evelyn worked seamlessly together, both in the open and behind the scenes, finally gathering all the concrete evidence.

Faced with irrefutable proof, the finance director, Joanne, immediately lost her nerve and pointed the finger squarely at Melody. They broke into a screaming match right then and there.

The spectacle of two vultures tearing each other apart made for an incredibly entertaining show in the conference room. Gael told Evelyn to hold her phone steady and record the whole thing so they could upload it online later, maybe even buy some trending traffic to make Melody famous for free.

Hester sat at the head of the table, arms crossed, coldly watching Melody and Joanne tear each other to shreds.

Gael had already called the police. Melody and Joanne were suspected of corporate embezzlement. With tens of millions involved, it was more than enough to keep them locked away for over a decade.

When the authorities arrived, Gael handed over the evidence. Shortly after, Melody and Joanne were escorted out in handcuffs.

With that, an eerie atmosphere descended upon the entire company. Melody's sudden downfall sent absolute panic through the employees who had previously taken her side and openly opposed Hester!

By now, it was already past clock-out time. The staff gradually headed home, but across the company's various group chats, every department was exploding with gossip about Melody's arrest.

Evelyn's phone was freezing up from the sheer volume of messages. Everyone was trying to fish for information. After all, she was now Hester's assistant, the key player who had helped Hester and Gael investigate Melody over the past few weeks. Everyone assumed she had to know the inside scoop.

But Evelyn completely ignored them. Even if she did know Hester's next moves, she wouldn't have told them anyway. They were nothing but a bunch of spineless opportunists who bullied the weak and feared the strong. Evelyn knew someone as decisive and sharp as Hester would never tolerate them.

Sure enough, barely an hour after Melody and Joanne were taken away, an HR notice was blasted across the internal system.

The majority of this group were women, some of whom had been targeted and pushed out by Melody simply for getting married or pregnant.

After leaving the company, some of these women had focused on their families, while others had been forced to abandon the industry altogether. It was safe to say that none of them had had an easy time. For Hester to reach out to them now was an absolute godsend!

Having wasted five years in her own depressive slump, Hester understood better than anyone just how vital a stable career and income were for a woman. She felt deeply grateful that she still had choices, that she could return to the realm she had built. Naturally, she was also grateful that the "comrades" who had once fought by her side still remembered her and were willing to place their trust in her again.

YAH Jewelry was originally founded on the core values of the female aesthetic and women's self-worth, earning deep recognition and love from its female clientele.

But during Melody's five-year reign, YAH's designs had strayed drastically from its original mission. The new releases had grown increasingly commercialized, and recently, several pieces were even exposed for plagiarizing a private studio's designs.

On her very first day back, Hester saw the writing on the wall: if Melody had continued managing the company, it would have gone bankrupt within a year. Melody must have realized this long ago, which was why she had been transferring funds with increasing urgency over the last two years.