Chapter 3
Diego had been completely stripped of his tailored suits and his corporate arrogance,
currently serving his sentence inside a medium-security correctional facility.
Despite the strict federal regulations,
he managed to acquire an illegal digital device from a compromised perimeter guard.
He initiated a frantic,
unauthorized communication protocol,
sending encrypted text messages to my secondary business line in the dead of night.
He claimed his mental structure was collapsing,
that the physical reality of the prison yard was entirely incompatible with his executive biology.
He begged me to submit a formal judicial request for leniency,
promising to transfer his remaining hidden stocks into my sole possession.
I stared at the glowing screen of the terminal,
feeling a profound,
clinical detachment from the human being who had once shattered a ceramic plate across my face.
I did not delete the messages,
nor did I experience a single tremor of sympathy in my nervous system.
Instead,
I extracted the exact timestamps,
the cell tower ping locations,
and the digital footprint of the contraband device.
I forwarded the entire data packet directly to the prison warden,
along with a formal legal demand from Claudia to audit his cellblock.
The subsequent internal raid resulted in his immediate transfer to maximum security isolation,
stripping away his final,
pathetic illusion of control.
He had attempted to manipulate my psychology from behind concrete walls,
relying on a twisted algorithm of residual marital guilt that simply no longer existed in my database.
I drank my morning espresso on my sunlit terrace,
breathing in the scent of the fresh rosemary,
feeling the absolute weightlessness of true emancipation.
The trauma was no longer an active infection in my bloodstream,
it had crystallized into an unbreakable armor,
a structural reinforcement that made me completely impervious to his manipulations.
His digital pleas echoed in the void,
unanswered,
May you like
unseen,
and entirely irrelevant to the empire I was currently building.
