Nico was terminated and ordered to repay nine point eight million dollars in restitution for unauthorized corporate expenditures.

Ingrid was stripped of the informal committee access and corporate perks she had used for years as though they were her personal accounts.

But Rutherford Packaging did not go under.

That mattered to Adele more than any of the rest of it.

The company her grandmother had built with her own hands was not destroyed; it was restructured.

An independent board was appointed.