Chapter 11
Two weeks passed, bringing the crisp, clean chill of late autumn to the rolling hills of Connecticut.
Clara had fully settled into her new life, her strength and elegance returning tenfold under her father's unwavering protection.
She sat on the sun porch, sipping warm herbal tea while reviewing the final liquidation documents of her ex-husband's assets.
Arthur walked out onto the porch, handing her an encrypted dossier marked with a red confidential stamp.
"There is one loose end we need to address, Clara," Arthur said, his expression unusually grim.
Clara looked up from her paperwork, her emerald eyes narrowing slightly. "What kind of loose end, Dad?"
"The Swiss escrow account Ethan tried to use wasn't registered to his domestic corporation," Arthur revealed, sitting down.
"Our cyber intelligence unit traced the ultimate beneficiary of those offshore funds."
Clara opened the dossier, scanning the corporate entity listed on the top line of the financial audit.
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"A shadow holding company operating out of Zurich... Apex Global," Clara read aloud, her breath catching.
"That's the exact same entity that tried to infiltrate my grandfather's trust fund three years ago," Arthur warned gravely.
