I Escaped Her Locked Estate in a Storm — By Morning I Held the Evidence That Would End Her at the 10 O’Clock Board Meeting

“That’s why she needed my eighteen percent,” I said aloud, as it came clear.

“My voting shares.

She was going to try to force a shareholder override — to get around your consent by mustering enough votes to claim the board had authorized it anyway.”

“And that,” Flynn said, “is why Luca wanted you isolated.

Not for the marriage.

For the shares.

You were never a bride to them, Jessi.

You were a proxy vote they needed to control, and the cleanest way to control a person’s vote is to control the person.” He said it flatly, but I saw the anger underneath it.