Chapter 7
Former employees came forward.
Priya.
Hannah.
Elise.
Jordan.
Names from old files became voices.
Priya had signed a confidential settlement after Victor touched her during a business trip.
She thought she had sold her right to speak.
Alicia corrected that.
“No agreement can stop you from reporting unlawful conduct.”
Priya cried.
Hannah had been denied promotion after refusing dinner alone with Victor.
Elise was labeled unstable after reporting him.
Jordan admitted he laughed at Victor’s jokes because silence felt safer than being targeted.
“I knew it was wrong,” Jordan said.
“Then why laugh?”
He looked down.
“Because I thought if I laughed, I wasn’t next.”
That was how Victor built power.
Not alone.
With fear.
May you like
With ambition.
With people laughing softly so the danger would pass them.
