Chapter 13 - VICTOR FINALLY EXPLAINED WHY CHARLOTTE TERRIFIED HIMVictor met with investigators.
Then later, through attorneys, provided a statement.
He had spent seventeen years inside Valle International.
Working.
Traveling.
Restructuring businesses.
Managing crises.
He believed he had earned succession.
Then Charlotte’s trust loomed over everything.
A woman who had done none of that could eventually hold enough voting influence to block him.
He resented her.
Not personally at first.
Symbolically.
“Absent ownership.”
That was what he called it.
Part of his criticism had merit.
Inherited voting power can create governance problems.
But instead of advocating transparent reform—
he manipulated.
Forged.
Hid conflicts.
Tried to weaken her position without informed consent.
Charlotte said:
“He might have convinced me.”
Sebastian frowned.
“What?”
“If he had told me the governance argument honestly.”
Exactly.
She might have supported professionalized voting structures.
Independent board control.
Limits on family influence.
Victor assumed she would defend privilege.
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So he never asked.
Fear of losing control created the behavior that destroyed his credibility.
