Chapter 4 - The Financial Ruin
I stared at the ringing burner phone in the plastic bag, my hands trembling violently as I answered the call.
A heavily distorted, mechanical voice echoed through the speaker, completely masking the caller's true identity.
The voice coldly informed me that I shouldn't bother going to the police with the video on the USB drive.
The anonymous caller revealed that the marriage documents I had signed earlier that morning were entirely forged.
They were actually legally binding asset transfer forms that gave Evelyn complete control over my billion-dollar corporate empire.
Every single bank account, property deed, and offshore trust fund I owned had been drained in the last twenty minutes.
I was completely bankrupt, stripped of my entire life's work while I was busy planning a fake wedding.
The voice warned me that if I went to the authorities, Genevieve's life support machines would be remotely shut off.
The line went completely dead, leaving me standing in the sterile hospital hallway with absolutely nothing to my name.
I looked through the glass window of the ICU, watching my beautiful daughter rely on a ventilator to breathe.
I pulled my sister Sarah aside, begging her to watch Toby and not to trust anyone, including the hospital staff.
I needed to find the only person who had access to my private financial records to reverse this catastrophe.
I drove my luxury sedan to the downtown corporate office of Marcus, my trusted lawyer and oldest friend.
I burst into his private suite, desperately hoping he could file an emergency injunction to freeze the stolen funds.
The office was completely empty, with papers scattered everywhere and the heavy safe left wide open.
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Sitting perfectly in the center of Marcus's mahogany desk was a glossy photograph that made my heart stop.
It was a picture of my sister Sarah's house, completely engulfed in a massive, raging inferno.
