Chapter 10 - A New Dawn
The tablet screen displayed the full, unhindered transfer of the Vance defense fortune.
My father and I were officially billionaires, completely free from Victoria's toxic debt.
The news networks reported that Julian and Victoria had vanished without a trace, presumably taken to a cartel black site.
Their fraudulent company was dismantled, and all their stolen assets were donated to cancer research in my mother's name.
We returned to the community hall one last time.
My father paid every single neighbor, teenager, and aunt who had helped with the wedding a hundred times their asking price.
He bought the entire community center and turned it into a free hospital for the poor.
I never had to worry about my father breaking his back in the scorching sun ever again.
We moved into the heavily guarded Vance estate, a beautiful mansion surrounded by lush gardens.
My father spent his days planting beautiful roses in his own massive yard, purely for the joy of it.
I decided to use the fortune to start a foundation protecting vulnerable people from predatory loans.
The military reinstated my father's honorable rank, holding a private ceremony to celebrate his heroism.
I watched him smile as the commander pinned the Golden Eagle of Valor to his chest.
Everything we had suffered had finally led us to this beautiful, peaceful life.
The dark storm had passed, and the future looked incredibly bright.
Late that evening, a sleek black car silently pulled up to our estate gates.
A woman stepped out into the shadows, wearing a dark trench coat and sunglasses.
She looked past the security cameras and whispered a secret military activation code.
She held up a recent, unedited photograph of my mother sitting in a European cafe.
"General Vance," she muttered into a secure radio, "your wife is awake, and they are hunting her."
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The screen on our security monitor violently flashed red, and the power to the entire estate abruptly cut out.
The real war was only just beginning.
