Chapter 19
That evening, after putting Maya to sleep, Clara sat at her home office desk with her laptop glowing in the dark. She began cross-referencing corporate shell companies linked to Victoria's family assets before the federal liquidation.
Buried deep within a Cayman Islands offshore subsidiary, she found a hidden transaction dated just one week prior. A massive wire transfer of two million dollars had been executed under a sealed, anonymous corporate trust account.
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The recipient of the funds was not in prison, nor was the account frozen by the federal asset forfeiture division. It belonged to an unknown individual operating under the corporate pseudonym "The Guardian Group" based in Seattle.
Clara realized with sudden, chilling clarity that Victoria was merely a pawn in a much larger, wealthier syndicate. They hadn't just wanted Maya; they had been utilizing the estate for a covert human trafficking pipeline disguised as adoption fraud.
