Chapter 9 - Local Bank Records Expose Unauthorized Financial Transfers

The bank loan officer examined the flash drive recovered from the cake capsule, plugging it into a spare laptop on the head table. Financial spreadsheets opened automatically, displaying a series of unauthorized wire transfers siphoning funds from Thomas’s personal accounts.
Over fifty thousand dollars had been quietly moved to an offshore account in the Cayman Islands registered under an untraceable LLC. “She was clearing out your liquid capital to fund her escape right after the baby shower announcement,” the loan officer stated grimly.
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Thomas stared at the numbers, remembering how Vanessa had insisted on managing the household finances after their wedding last year. He had foolishly believed she was helping him secure their future, when she was actually building her exit strategy.
The financial betrayal hit him harder than the physical shock of the cake's destruction.
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