“The shell company in Delaware is handling the transfer,” Grant said. “It will take forty minutes to clear the secondary bank.”

“Once the money hits the custody account, we trigger the wire,” Vanessa said.

“Every dollar,” Grant agreed. “We leave nothing for her mother.”

They were planning to strip the last of my family’s legacy and flee.

And they were planning to use Lily as a human shield to do it.

I closed my eyes for a single second, forcing the rage out of my mind.

Emotion was a liability.

I needed to think like an operator.

“Marcus,” I whispered, my voice barely a vibration in my throat. “Did you copy those routing numbers?”

“We got them,” Marcus replied. “The Delaware shell is registered as ‘Vanguard Holdings’.”

“Can we trace the custody bank?” I asked.

“We are tracking the IP address of Grant’s laptop now,” Marcus said. “He is using an encrypted VPN, but the federal tap is holding.”

“Tell the office to prepare the freeze orders,” I said.

“We need the exact transfer initiation code first,” Marcus said. “If we strike too early, the funds will bounce to a dark pool.”