Chapter 18
My eyes narrowed as I read the high-priority report, my heart skipping a sudden, erratic beat.
“Audrey,” the message read, “we completed the deep-tier audit of Julian Vance’s family ancestry as requested.”
“Julian’s real biological father was not an insurance salesman from Ohio as his public records claimed.”
“He was Lord Alistair Vance, the disgraced former director of the Royal Sovereign Trust in London.”
“Before his death in 2021, Lord Vance deposited forty million pounds into a blind offshore account in Jersey.”
“An account that was set to automatically unlock on Julian’s forty-fifth birthday next month.”
I stared at the glowing phone screen, a cold chill running down my spine despite my warm coat.
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Julian hadn’t just been a greedy, arrogant executive playing with company money.
He had been hiding a massive international trust that my legal team had completely missed during our initial investigation.
