Chapter 8 - UNCOVERING THE SECRET TRUST
Later that evening, Ethan sat at his home office desk, surrounded by financial ledgers and legal real estate documents.
Maya brought him a fresh cup of coffee, setting it gently beside his laptop as she leaned over his shoulder.
"Did you find anything in the trust documents?" she asked softly, wrapping her arms around his shoulders.
"My grandfather set up an independent inheritance trust for me when I turned twenty-five," Ethan revealed, pointing at the screen.
"I thought your father dissolved that trust when you married me?" Maya asked, puzzled by the complex financial jargon.
"That's what he lied to me about," Ethan growled, his eyes narrowing as he read through the digitized bank records.
"He's been illegally siphoning dividends from my grandfather's trust to fund Victoria's lavish country club lifestyle for seven years," Ethan discovered.
Maya gasped softly, covering her mouth as the full scale of the Montgomery family fraud revealed itself on the monitor.
"He embezzled over four million dollars from your personal inheritance?" Maya asked in disbelief.
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"And I have the ironclad bank transfer records to prove it to the federal prosecutors," Ethan said with a grim, vengeful smile.
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