Chapter 16 - The Swiss Account Surprise
Two hours later, Richard walked into my office, holding a encrypted tablet computer with a grave, deeply troubled expression.
“Thomas, the Swiss accounts Evelyn listed are real,” Richard reported, placing the tablet on my desk.
“They hold roughly twelve million dollars transferred from various European logistics shell corporations over the last five years.”
“Did Arthur create them?” I asked, leaning forward over my desk.
“That’s the strange part,” Richard replied, tapping the screen to reveal the original signature documents from Zurich.
“Arthur Miller didn't open these accounts.”
“They were opened in 2019 by your late wife, Eleanor Vance.”
My heart stopped in my chest, the room suddenly spinning as if the floor had disappeared beneath my feet.
Eleanor, my devoted, gentle wife of thirty years, who died of cancer six years ago, had opened secret offshore accounts in Switzerland?
“That’s impossible,” I stammered, my voice barely a breath. “Eleanor had no interest in corporate finances! She was an artist!”
“Look at the beneficiary designation, Thomas,” Richard said quietly, pointing to the bottom of the encrypted Zurich document.
The document listed Eleanor Vance as the primary holder, but the sole secondary beneficiary listed to receive the twelve million dollars upon her death was not me.
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And it wasn't Genevieve.
The beneficiary was a woman named Clara Mercer, living in a small coastal town in Maine.
