CHAPTER 7: THE HOUSE OF CARDS COLLAPSES
As Ethan and Linda were hauled out of their suburban mansion in orange holding jumpsuits, neighborhood residents peered curiously from behind their manicured hedges.
The local news vans arrived within minutes, broadcasting live footage of the elite socialites being shoved into the back of a Fairfax County transport van.
Inside the house, federal forensic accountants began seizing every single electronic device, unearthing the digital paper trail Victoria had carefully documented over the years.
They discovered that the Carter family fortune was built entirely on sand, funded by illegal kickbacks, fake invoices, and embezzlement from local government infrastructure projects.
Furthermore, the mortgage on the very mansion they stood in was held in Victoria's exclusive pre-marital trust, meaning she legally owned every brick of the property.
By sunset, the assets had been frozen by federal court order, leaving Ethan and Linda without a single penny to hire high-priced private defense attorneys.
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They were forced to rely on overworked public defenders who took one look at the overwhelming mountain of evidence and advised them to start praying for mercy.
The invincible Carter family dynasty had been utterly destroyed in less than twelve hours by the very woman they had left to die on the kitchen floor.
