Chapter 19
I immediately tapped my screen, dialing David Vance on his private satellite line.
“David, we have a major problem,” I stated, my voice dropping into an intense, sharp focus.
“Julian’s foreign trust in Jersey is set to activate in three weeks.”
“He has forty million pounds coming to his name that aren't covered by our initial prenuptial seizure.”
“He can use that money to pay his bail fines, hire top appeal lawyers, and execute an international lawsuit against Northstar.”
David was quiet on the other end of the line for three agonizing seconds before speaking in a low whisper.
“Audrey... it’s worse than that,” David revealed, his tone heavy with extreme gravity.
“I just checked the Jersey court registry.”
“The trustee authorized to manage Julian’s forty-million-pound inheritance isn't a bank.”
“It’s a private holding company registered under your late mother’s name.”
I stood frozen under the hotel awning, the phone pressed to my ear as the ocean breeze whipped my hair across my face.
My mother had known about Julian’s true identity, his secret father, and his fortune before I had ever met him.
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The trap I thought I had set for my husband was merely the second layer of a game my mother had started thirty years ago.
And as a black luxury sedan with foreign plates pulled up to the curb in front of me, I realized the real game had just begun.
