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Amara’s POV

The article dropped on a Wednesday morning — the kind that made the whole city buzz before sunrise.

> Cruz Holdings Faces Profit Decline: Transparency Initiative Under Fire.

By the time Amara reached her office, the news had already spread through every department like wildfire. Screens glowed with the headline. Conversations stopped when she walked by.

Lydia was waiting at the elevator, tablet in hand, worry etched across her face.

“Don’t look at the comments,” she warned.

Amara managed a tight smile. “Too late.”

The investor report had leaked — the same one linking her program, The Transparency Initiative, to the company’s profit dip. Words like idealistic, emotionally driven, image-focused echoed in her mind, each one a small, deliberate cut.

“They’re twisting the numbers,” she said, scrolling through the article. “We reallocated funds to compliance audits — to rebuild trust, not lose it.”

“I know,” Lydia said quietly. “But they want someone to blame. And it’s easier wh
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