Chapter 4 - The Poisoned Ledger
Jax and I spent forty-eight hours straight trying to decrypt the drive. When we finally broke the firewall, the screen flooded with documents that made my blood run cold.
It was the true ledger of Harrington Enterprises.
Genevieve hadn't just been waiting for Eleanor to die; she had been systematically bankrupting the company for ten years. She had set up dummy corporations in the Cayman Islands, funneled billions of dollars out of the employee pension funds, and taken on massive, toxic debts in the company's name.
But the worst file wasn't financial. It was a private medical log. Genevieve had been bribing Eleanor’s private physician. She had been micro-dosing my grandmother with heavy metals for three years, slowly destroying her mind and body so she could take over.
Genevieve wasn't just a thief. She was a murderer.
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"Asher," Jax said softly, staring at the screen. "She left you the company, but she left you the debt, too. If she cashes out the Swiss accounts today, the company goes under, and forty thousand employees lose their pensions. You'll take the fall."
"No," I said, a cold fury settling into my bones. "She wants to play with fire. I’m going to burn her empire to the ground."
