Within the day, Kestrel Worldwide filed for bankruptcy protection.

Dalloway Logistics lost most of its market value inside forty-eight hours, and Aldous Dalloway was removed by his own furious board before the week was out.

Sena was ruined completely — her father cut her loose publicly to save what was left of his own name, and with the family money frozen under the audit, she had no wall left to stand behind.

My legal team, with Sinclaire leading, filed a civil action against her for the assault and defamation at the gala, and she had nothing to fight it with.

The woman who had walked into that ballroom certain she was the most dangerous person in the room walked out of the following year with nothing at all.

None of it, I want to be clear, was chaos.