Chapter 7 - Revealing The Secret Corporate Empire
Inside the secure Arlington safehouse, a massive wall monitor lit up automatically as Marcus connected his tactical datapad.
Columns of financial data, corporate ownership structures, and international asset portfolios filled the high-definition display.
“Sterling Global Corp is currently valued at over four billion dollars, and your digital signature controls every subsidiary,” Marcus reported.
Elena stood by the tall window looking out over the twinkling lights of the Potomac River.
“Julian thought I was just a quiet trophy wife he picked up from a small midwestern town,” Elena said with a faint, ironic smile.
“He had no idea that your father was the brilliant software pioneer who founded the core encryption engine our agency uses,” Marcus noted.
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“He burned every bridge my family built, but he forgot that legal ownership cannot be stolen with physical threats,” Elena added firmly.
The corporate empire was entirely hers, meaning Julian and Eleanor were legally penniless vagrants.
