Chapter 6 - THE BOARD VOTE WAS BUILT ON A LIE
The board vote did not automatically vanish because Margaret was alive.
Corporate governance was not magic.
Mara Chen explained it to Ethan in a conference room.
“Your removal may still stand.”
He stared.
“Victor used an invalid proxy.”
“Possibly.”
“Possibly?”
“We prove it.”
Ethan wanted certainty.
Mara wanted documents.
The Class A trust required:
written notice,
competent-holder certification,
and valid proxy if a holder could not attend.
Victor submitted a physician statement declaring Margaret unable to act.
Signed by Dr. Crane.
Date:
January 10.
But by January 10, Margaret had been living outside Northwood for months.
Crane had not examined her since the original dinner.
Mara looked at Ethan.
“That is a problem.”
The proxy transferring Margaret’s vote to Victor was notarized on January 11.
Location:
Chicago.
Margaret was captured on shelter security footage in Milwaukee that entire day.
She could not have signed it in Chicago.
Bigger problem.
Then the vote tally emerged.
Adrian won the CEO appointment by one Class A vote.
Margaret’s vote.
If the proxy failed, the result changed.
Not because Ethan deserved his job.
Because the math changed.
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Mara filed for emergency board review.
Adrian’s smile disappeared in under forty-eight hours.
