For half a second, no one moved—not Emiliano, not Camila, not the investors seated in perfect rows beneath the cold, unforgiving light.
Then a cough, small and nervous, broke somewhere near the front, followed by the faint scrape of a chair shifting against polished marble.
I watched Emiliano’s shoulders stiffen before he even turned his head, as if his body recognized the truth before his mind allowed it to exist.
Camila’s smile didn’t vanish immediately. It cracked slowly, like glass under pressure, her confidence collapsing in quiet fragments no one could ignore.
The video kept playing.
No one stopped it.
No one dared.
Because stopping it would mean acknowledging it, and acknowledging it would mean choosing a side in a room that suddenly had none.
I felt my fingers tighten around the edge of my chair, not from doubt, but from the strange weight settling into my chest.
This was the moment I had imagined in the car, in the elevator, in that silent office upstairs.
But imagination is always cleaner than reality.
Here, there were people.
Eyes.
Breaths.
Reputations folding in real time.