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Catherine Dalton, her hand still raised, stood up. All eyes in the grand council room were on her. As the only female investor in their midst, the only woman besides the Ellington ladies to hold such a significant share, her presence was already a novelty. Her speaking up now was a direct challenge to the established order.
"Yes," she said, her voice calm, clear, and carrying to every corner of the silent room. "I have an objection." She looked at the long line of grim-faced advisors, and then her gaze settled, with a cold, hard precision, on Baroness Augusta.
"From the moment Baron Edgar stepped back from management until this very day," Catherine began, her gaze fixed on Augusta, "this establishment has maintained that he has 'health issues'. This has been the official explanation for years. A vague, convenient phrase without any further explanation of his actual condition." She paused, letting the weight of her words settle. "Don't you think, Baroness, that you owe the people in this room, the very people whose investments you are asking to control, a more detailed explanation?"
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