Chapter 17 - A New OrderWeeks passed.
The scandal became national news.
Richard Vance faced federal charges.
Sterling was arrested for his role in the financial scheme.
Apex Motors survived.
Under Maya's leadership, the company became more transparent than it had ever been.
Employees who had once feared speaking up were encouraged to report corruption.
Maya created a new internal ethics division.
The showroom changed too.
It still displayed spectacular cars.
But now the marble walls represented something different.
Not arrogance.
Possibility.
One evening, Maya stood on the balcony of her penthouse.
Los Angeles stretched beneath her in a sea of lights.
She had won.
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Yet she knew victory wasn't about wealth.
It was about refusing to become cruel simply because the world had once been cruel to her.
