He wanted to see me . I agreed to the meeting . James's old swagger was completely gone , replaced by defeat . His voice was hoarse , almost begging . " Maya , you won . Please , just ... stop . " " We were married for twelve years . Are you really going to destroy me completely ? " " If I go to prison , how does that help the company ? Your stock options will be worthless too . " He was trying to tie his fate to the company's survival . His last desperate card to play . When I didn't respond , his tone got more frantic . I just watched his performance , stone - faced . A corrections officer had to tell him to calm down before I finally spoke . " James , when you were using company funds to buy Michelle her Birkin bags , were you thinking about the company then ? " " When you were bleeding cash through those shell companies , did you care about stock prices ? " " The company will be better off without you . And my shares ? Not your problem anymore . " My calm completely broke him . The pleading mask slipped away , revealing something ugly underneath . He leaned in close , voice dropping to a vicious whisper . " You want Zoe to grow up with a father in prison ? You think about what this does to her future ?! " The second he brought up our daughter , my voice turned to ice . " The person who made her father a criminal is YOU . Not me . " " Now you remember you have a daughter ? Where was that concern when you were playing happy family with Michelle and Alex ? " Even facing federal charges , he was still trying to use our child as leverage . I was done looking at his pathetic face . I got up and left . Back in my car , my assistant called immediately . " Maya , that ' Healing Hearts Foundation ' you had me investigating ? We found something major . Worse than we imagined ! " " James wasn't just money laundering through the charity . He was manipulating medical aid programs On paper , they funded critical treatments for sick kids . In reality , he colluded with certain hospitals to inflate treatment costs . Most of the money flowed back to his Cayman accounts . " " At least three cases where the foundation ' delayed approvals ' or had ' funding issues . ' Patients missed their treatment windows and ... " My assistant's voice got heavy . " One was a kid with leukemia . " My fingers clenched so hard my nails drew blood . 199 % Chapter 7 I'd thought he was just greedy . Just corrupt . Turns out he was rotten to the core . Profiting off dying children's hope . " The evidence is solid ? " " Bulletproof ! We have his agreements with the hospitals , the money trails , everything . One of the fathers agreed to go on record . " Rage burned in my chest . " Package it all . Same plan , but this time we include the victims ' voices . " That night , the final bomb dropped . Sarah Rodriguez's headline was devastating : ** " From Fraud to Murder ? The Blood Money Behind James Morgan's Charity Scam " ** The article laid out everything . How " Healing Hearts " became James's personal ATM . How he partnered with crooked medical facilities to steal from desperate families . The audio interview with the leukemia patient's father broke everyone's heart . The comments were pure fury : * Monster ! Scum ! I can't even find words for this evil ! * * I thought white - collar crime was just numbers on paper . These are human lives ! Death penalty ! * * Crying ... That baby was only five years old ... because of this piece of shit ... * * Maya Sterling is a hero ! Please make sure he pays for this . * Any remaining sympathy for James vanished completely . The FBI issued another statement : " Due to significant new evidence of criminal activity , charges against James Morgan have been upgraded . A full investigation into his charitable foundation is underway . " Game , set , match .