The air outside was thick with the weight of impending change, a storm on the horizon Cambria couldn't ignore. Every step she took toward the office felt heavier, as though the very ground beneath her was shifting with each passing moment. She hadn't slept, hadn't eaten, hadn't allowed herself a moment's rest. The video had changed everything. The public now saw her father for what he was, saw Maddox for what he was a traitor, an enemy cloaked in the guise of an ally.
But worse than all of that, they now saw her. The woman who had built everything from the ground up, only to discover that the very foundation she had trusted was built on lies. On betrayal.
