Chapter 19 - Maren Takes Her Daughter Away From The Estate
Two weeks later, the morning sun shone brightly across a quiet, picturesque lakeside town in Vermont. Maren stood on the wooden porch of a cozy, sunlit wooden cabin surrounded by tall pine trees.
There were no high-rise boardrooms, no security guards, no federal marshals, and no coastal cliffs. She held a steaming mug of coffee in her hands, watching Elodie chase yellow butterflies across the green grass.
The little girl laughed freely, her bright green eyes shining with pure joy without a single trace of fear. Celestine was inside the kitchen baking pancakes, the sweet smell of vanilla drifting out through the screen door.
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Maren took a deep breath of the clean mountain air, feeling completely untethered from her past life. She had traded four billion dollars of stolen wealth for a simple, quiet morning with her real family.
Her phone rested on the porch table, completely silent and ignored for days. The corporate world had forgotten about the Mercer estate, leaving them in absolute, beautiful anonymity.
