Chapter 5 - The Paper Trail In The Safe
By 2:00 a.m., the police had cleared the crime scene, towing Kristina’s sedan and taking Edgar in for formal questioning.
Nora sat alone in her massive home office on the ground floor, the silence of the forty-thousand-square-foot mansion pressing against her ears.
Her attorney, Daniel Moore, arrived thirty minutes later, wearing a rumpled trench coat over his business clothes.
“Nora, are you hurt?” Daniel asked, rushing into the office and taking her shivering hands in his.
“I’m intact, Daniel,” Nora replied softly, her eyes dry and burning with exhaustion.
“We need to freeze every corporate and personal account immediately before sunrise.”
Nora stood up, walked to the painting behind her desk, and opened the hidden wall safe using her emergency code.
She pulled out a thick blue binder containing the original corporate papers of Preston Supply Operations.
“When we married ten years ago, I gave Edgar a fifteen percent non-voting equity stake in the company,” Nora explained.
“Because he was my husband, I assumed he was loyal to the empire we built.”
Daniel flipped through the corporate charter documents, taking notes with a silver fountain pen.
“If he’s convicted as an accessory to attempted murder, his equity can be voided under Arizona’s slayer statute,” Daniel noted.
“We can strip him of his company stock, his board seat, and his rights to this estate within forty-eight hours.”
Nora opened Edgar’s unlocked smartphone on the desk, clicking into the primary banking app linked to his personal account.
She scrolled through his transaction history, her jaw clenching as the real extent of his betrayal was laid bare.
Over the past four years, Edgar had transferred over two million dollars from their joint account into a private trust fund in Scottsdale.
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The beneficiary of the trust was a four-year-old boy named Leo Finch.
And the primary trustee was Heather Perkinson.
