Chapter 10 - Confronting the Ghost Woman Inside the Corporate Office
Later that afternoon, Lisa returned to her penthouse corner office in downtown Boston to finalize the corporate restructuring documents. As she walked through the double doors, she found the silver-haired woman sitting quietly by the floor-to-ceiling windows.
“Who are you really, and why did Evelyn use your identity to stage that plane crash twenty years ago?” Lisa asked directly. The woman turned slowly, her weathered face bearing a striking resemblance to the old family photographs of Lisa’s mother.
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“I was the chief financial officer of the original Bennett defense contracts before Evelyn stole my identity to seize the corporate trust,” she replied. “Your mother discovered their embezzlement scheme, and they tried to erase us both in 2004.”
Lisa realized that the conspiracy extended far deeper than corporate greed—it was a multi-generational vendetta for absolute control.
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