Chapter 6 - Unearthing the Stolen Family Capital
While chaos consumed the tenth-floor boardroom, Claire sat in the back of Dominic’s sedan opening a secured laptop on her lap.
The screen illuminated her face, revealing rows of digitized banking documents dating back to the formation of Whitmore Freight.
“My father thinks he erased all the original partnership papers from the company archives,” Claire said, clicking through a folder labeled Anne Bell Trust.
Dominic leaned closer, his dark gray eyes reflecting the scrolling financial data as he watched her work with effortless precision.
“He was always arrogant enough to believe that destroying physical paper made digital records vanish,” Dominic noted softly.
“Look at this transaction from 1999,” Claire pointed her finger at a line item involving millions of dollars transferred from a dormant Baltimore holding account.
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“That money didn't come from Charles’s family estate,” Dominic murmured, his voice tightening with a sudden, dangerous edge.
“It came from my grandfather’s estate—your family's trust,” Claire stated, looking up to meet his intense gaze directly.
