Chapter 21 - A Mysterious Package Arrives At Our Front Door
Late one quiet Friday evening, while Tommy was fast asleep upstairs, our local postal carrier delivered a heavy manila envelope. There was no return address or postal stamp, only an embossed metallic seal from an international Swiss bank archive.
I used a silver letter opener to slice open the heavy paper, pulling out a single document and a small encrypted flash drive.
The document was an estate inventory listing overseas assets belonging to a mysterious foreign branch of the Arthur Vance trust.
The handwritten note at the bottom made my blood run cold instantly:
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“Joe and Eleanor were only hiding the surface... the true owner of Vance Holdings is coming to claim the estate next week.”
I slowly raised my eyes toward the dark front windows as a pair of black luxury sedans rolled slowly down our gravel driveway...
