The Price of a False Legacy and the Secret That Rebuilt a Dynasty
“Look at the dates,” I said, leaning over the desk.
“These are unauthorized transfers,” Elena murmured, her finger tracing a line. “Here is the three million from your pre-IPO sale.”
“And there are more,” I said, pointing to a transaction from six months ago. “Fifty thousand dollars. I never authorized that.”
Elena picked up the black folder Harrison had dropped on the floor during his arrest.
She opened it and began sorting through the remaining documents.
I stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Below, the streets of Minneapolis were quiet, slick with a thin layer of night frost.
I had thought getting Harrison out of my life would bring peace.
Instead, the air in the room felt heavier than ever.
“Claire,” Elena said.
Her voice had gone completely flat.
I turned around.
She was holding a thick, stapled document she had pulled from a hidden sleeve in the back of the folder.
“You need to look at this,” she said.
I walked back to the desk, the cold from the window pane still lingering on my skin.
The document was a loan application for twenty million dollars.