Chapter 12 - The Truth About The 2012 Merger
Nora’s blood turned to liquid nitrogen in her veins as she reached out and picked up the heavy leather journal from the table.
She flipped through the dusty, brittle pages until her thumb landed on page forty-two, dated November 14, 2012.
Written in Edgar’s neat, precise handwriting was a detailed breakdown of her late father’s estate, Preston Materials.
“If I secure the marriage with Nora Preston before the December acquisition deadline, we absorb her father’s land rights in Nevada without paying the twenty-million-dollar buyout fee.”
Nora stared at the words, her mind racing back fourteen years to the day her father died of a sudden heart attack.
She had met Edgar three months later at a commercial building convention in Tucson, when she was grieving and completely overwhelmed.
He had been so kind, so attentive, helping her navigate the complex corporate restructuring of her father’s legacy.
She had believed he was her savior—the man who stepped into her life to help her rebuild from the ashes.
In reality, his entire courtship had been a calculated corporate hostile takeover wrapped in a wedding ring.
Nora looked up from the journal, her eyes burning with a cold, terrifying fire as she stared at Kristina.
“My father’s heart attack…” Nora whispered, her voice trembling with sudden, horrible realization.
“Did Edgar have something to do with my father’s death?”
Kristina offered a slow, terrible smile from her hospital pillow, her eyelids growing heavy as her heart monitor began to wail continuously.
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“Ask… his father’s old partner… in Las Vegas,” Kristina gasped out with her final breath, before her monitor flatlined into a solid, piercing tone.
Nora stood frozen in the white medical room as nurses rushed past her, the journal clutched tightly against her chest.
