Chapter 13 - Taking the Reins

Two weeks after the arrests, I walked back through the revolving glass doors of Mercer Development—not as a trespasser, not as an outcast, but as the duly reinstated Chairwoman and CEO.
The employees who had once looked away in fear now stood and applauded as I walked past the reception desk. Marcus was gone; a new board of directors had been installed.
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I sat in the corner executive office overlooking Manhattan, signing my first official corporate decree: restructuring the company to fund legal defense funds for wrongfully accused women across the state.
My past prison sentence hadn't broken me; it had forged me into steel.