💝The CEO's Penalty: Tangaza Upendo

The air inside the seventeenth-floor boardroom in Upper Hill was thick enough to cut with a panga. Silas Mogaka, the billionaire CEO of Omogano Tea Exporters, stared down at the compliance report, his jaw clenched so tightly a muscle twitched beneath his stubble. At thirty-two, he was widely known as the king of the agricultural export sector. He was used to boards bowing to him, not being interrogated by a woman who looked like she belonged on a Parisian fashion runway rather than buried in cold corporate tax codes.

"You missed a critical decimal point in the Diani shipment ledger, Mr. Mogaka," Faith Kerubo said, her voice dropping like ice cubes into a glass. She adjusted her designer glasses, completely unbothered by his glare. "A five-million-shilling discrepancy isn't a simple administrative error. On paper, it looks like fraud, even if it is just sheer executive negligence."

Mogaka leaned back in his leather chair, a dark brow arched dangerously. "Are you accusing me of stealing from my own family legacy, Miss Kerubo? In my own building?"

"I am stating mathematical facts," Kerubo replied, looking him dead in the eye. She was fiercely proud of her Kisii roots. Her parents had...