Chapter 4: The Heiress Unmasked
The confusion on Mark's face was painful to watch. "What paperwork? You’re broke! You had nothing when we met!"
Elena reached into the pocket of her coat and produced a single, thick document—the original deed to the lodge, and alongside it, the true financial records of the Vance-Thorne conglomerate.
"I wasn't broke, Mark. I was undercover," Elena revealed. "I knew your family had been systematically defrauding the industry for a decade. I didn't marry you because I fell in love. I married you because I needed access to your internal ledgers to prove that you were the ones running the offshore ponzi scheme."
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Beatrice, who had been sitting in the chair, dropped her glass. The whiskey pooled on the floor, staining the expensive rug. She tried to stand, but the agents were already there.
"The deed to this lodge?" Elena continued. "It was never in your name. It was always in the name of the foundation I started the day before our wedding. You weren't paying the mortgage, Mark. You were paying rent to my charity. And as of five minutes ago, that rent is delinquent."
