Lydia reached into her bag once more and produced a small USB drive, setting it on the table with a decisive click. Dominic tried to laugh it off as edited footage, but the judge had already signaled for the court technician to plug it into the display system.
The screen at the front of the room flickered to life, showing a video of Dominic and Gianna in a penthouse three months earlier. They were drinking wine and discussing how to push Lydia out of the house and take the children, speaking as if they were discussing a business merger rather than a family.
“She has nothing, and she won’t see it coming until the locks are changed,” Dominic’s voice boomed through the speakers. The gallery watched in stunned silence as the man they admired was revealed to be a cold, calculating strategist.
The files then shifted to financial records, showing nearly two years of illicit transfers and offshore accounts. It became clear that Dominic had been siphoning company funds to pay for Gianna’s lifestyle and to make the business look weaker on paper before the divorce.