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Chapter 653
Chapter 653:
“I won’t sign.” She swept the documents off the nightstand. “I’ll go to every media outlet in this city. I’ll make him look like the cold-blooded man he is p>
The assistant made no move to retrieve the papers. He simply reached into his briefcase and withdrew another document, setting it on the nightstand with the same calm precision as the first.
It was a federal fraud indictment, drafted and ready to file.
“If you decline to sign, the Compton Group’s legal team will pursue criminal charges against you and your parents for commercial fraud and extortion beginning tomorrow morning. You will receive nothing. You will spend the foreseeable future in federal custody.” He paused. “Mr. Compton keeps his word, Miss Beasley. On both sides of an offer p>
Alycia stared at the indictment. The cold that moved through her had nothing to do with the hospital air. Cole was not consumed by guilt. He was not coming. There was no leverage left — only two options, and one of them was a cell.
The assistant checked his watch.
“You have four hours to decide. After that, this agreement is permanently withdrawn p>
He turned and left without looking back.
𝖣i𝘴𝘤o𝘷𝖾𝗿 𝗻𝖾w 𝗌𝘵𝗼𝗋іеѕ оn
Alycia sat alone in the ward, the scattered documents around her, the monitors still beeping their indifferent rhythm, and understood at last that she had lost every hand she had ever held.
After the assistant left, the ward fell into dead silence. The scattered exile agreement and the copy of the two-hundred-million-dollar check lay across the floor like wreckage.
Alycia covered her face and sobbed — not for the child she had never carried, but for the life she had constructed so carefully and watched collapse so completely.
The door creaked open. Susan slipped in quietly, her face still marked with bruises from Richard’s hands. When she saw the documents on the floor, she moved toward them immediately, picking up the check copy with trembling fingers.
“Two hundred million dollars,” she breathed. “Alycia, we can survive this. We can start over p>
“The price is exile.” Alycia’s voice was flat. “We leave New York permanently. If we’re found here after signing, it’s federal prison for all of us p>
Susan’s excitement died in her throat. She read through the terms slowly, her expression shifting through several emotions before settling on something harder and darker.
A wealthy life abroad was one thing. But it meant leaving the city that had defined her, hiding somewhere distant while June Erickson remained at the center of everything — celebrated, untouchable, victorious.
“No.” Susan set the documents down. “We can’t take this money and disappear. If we run, she wins. She destroys us and gets to be queen of New York while we rot in Argentina?” Her voice dropped to something quieter and more dangerous. “I won’t allow it p>
Alycia closed her eyes. “Cole won’t even acknowledge me p>