Chapter 18 - The True Mastermind Behind The Bloody Bracelet Revealed
As their car drove down the winding coastal highway away from Connecticut, Maren opened the leather purse. She pulled out the blood-stained silver bracelet Elodie had dropped on the grass earlier that morning.
She examined the tiny engraving on the inner clasp using the dashboard reading light. It wasn't Viktor's handwriting, nor was it Celestine's—it was stamped with a distinct legal seal from Zurich.
"What is that, Mommy?" Elodie asked from her booster seat, pointing a small finger at the silver metal. "Just an old piece of jewelry that belonged to someone who tried to trick us," Maren explained gently.
The person who had sent the anonymous photo three days ago wasn't Viktor Mercer at all. It was an anonymous corporate whistleblower inside the Zurich trust who wanted the whole corrupt system to burn.
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They had used Maren as the final weapon to destroy the Mercer dynasty from the inside out. Maren rolled down the car window and tossed the bloody bracelet out into the rushing ocean wind.
It vanished into the blue waves below, erasing the final physical link to her family's dark history.
