CHAPTER 5
By six o'clock that evening, the story of the Fairfax deception had completely dominated every major television network and social media platform across the United States.
Inside a high-tech command center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, I sat at a long conference table surrounded by senior intelligence analysts, federal prosecutors, and Department of Justice officials.
Samuel and Owen were comfortably resting in an adjacent private family lounge, eating dinner under the watchful, protective eye of two friendly military aides.
Spread across the interactive digital screens in front of us were the complete financial networks of Hollis Transit Systems, mapping out every illegal transaction Adrian and Paige had executed over the past three years.
"He was completely clueless, wasn't he?" Senior Prosecutor Amanda Cruz remarked, shaking her head in amazement as she reviewed the digital evidence.
"Adrian only cared about appearances," I explained calmly, sipping a cup of black coffee. "He wanted the world to see him as a self-made titan, so he never bothered to look at the foundational contracts he signed twelve years ago."
When I had established the firm using my late father's logistics trust, I had placed every share into a classified military holding trust that required my personal biological clearance to alter.
Adrian had been granted operating authority as CEO, but he was legally nothing more than a high-salaried employee subject to termination at my sole discretion.
His belief that our prenuptial agreement protected his "empire" was built entirely on a phantom; he couldn't strip assets from a company he never actually owned.
"The foreign shell company in Dubai has already been frozen by international authorities," Amanda Cruz reported, sliding a tablet toward me. "Every dollar he tried to siphon into Paige Ellison's private accounts has been recovered."
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"What about his personal assets?" I asked, looking up from the screen.
"His four-million-dollar McLean estate, his sports car collection, and his personal bank accounts have been seized under federal asset forfeiture laws," Amanda answered with a cold, satisfied smile. "He doesn't even have enough money left to pay his private defense lawyers."
