Chapter 6 - The Black Widow
The horrific realization that Ashley was the true mastermind completely shifted the entire dynamic of my survival.
We loaded into Julian's heavily armored SUV and drove deep into the night, hiding out in a run-down, cash-only motel.
I laid my sleeping baby on the bed and opened the laptop to dig furiously into Ashley's heavily redacted background.
Julian used his highest security clearances to bypass government firewalls and pull her sealed juvenile and medical records.
Ashley was not just a greedy executive assistant looking for a quick payout from a wealthy husband.
Her real name was Cassandra Vance, a disgraced geneticist who had been fired for conducting illegal, highly unethical fertility experiments.
She had specifically targeted Michael because she knew about a highly classified, secondary clause in my life insurance policy.
The fifty million dollars was not a standard payout to a surviving spouse upon my tragic death.
The money was locked in a generational trust fund that could only be accessed by the biological heir of the policyholder.
Michael had never read the fine print of the policy his company forced him to sign during our corporate merger.
He thought he was murdering me to get rich, but he was actually just a pawn in Ashley's twisted game.
I clicked on a highly secure medical file from Michael's private physician that Julian had just downloaded from the cloud.
My blood ran completely cold as I read the bold, undeniable red letters at the top of the medical evaluation.
Michael had been completely, irreversibly sterile since he was a teenager due to a severe childhood illness.
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He could never father a child, meaning he had absolutely no legal claim to the trust fund he was trying to steal.
And the only reason Ashley wanted me dead was so she could kidnap my son and control the empire herself.
