Chapter 4 - The Friday Deadline Approaches Fast
The calendar on Emma’s office wall showed Tuesday evening, leaving less than seventy-two hours before her twenty-ninth birthday on Friday.
According to the original charter established by her grandfather, the sole control of the family trust transferred entirely at midnight on Friday.
If Nathan could successfully file the forged transfer papers before that deadline, he would legally seize millions in voting shares.
That was why he had been so desperate to remove Emma from the company and force a quiet, humiliating divorce settlement.
Emma sat at her mahogany desk, reviewing the fraudulent document alongside her attorney, Marcus Vance.
“The signature forgery is crude under a forensic microscope, but it would have passed if filed before Friday,” Marcus noted grimly.
“He thought he could bully me into signing a quick waiver while I was grieving our deteriorating marriage,” Emma replied coldly.
“Instead, he gave you the exact catalyst you needed to trigger an emergency federal injunction,” Marcus said with a sharp smile.
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The legal machinery was already in motion, designed to lock down every corporate account Nathan owned before the week ended.
Friday was coming, and Nathan had no idea that his golden empire was built on quicksand.
