Chapter 7: The Shadow Ledger
Chapter 7: The Shadow Ledger
Two weeks later, the physical scars on my back had begun to heal into a lattice of angry pink lines. I moved back into Blackthorn Manor, now secured by two dozen of my father's heavily armed operatives. The house felt different now—cleansed of Nathan's arrogance, but echoing with a tense anticipation.
We discovered the anomaly on a Tuesday.
My father’s forensic accountants found a ghost in Nathan's digital ledger—a dark-web cryptocurrency wallet that hadn’t been seized during the raid. Before the feds had frozen his assets, an automated dead-man's switch had triggered, moving nearly three hundred million dollars into an untraceable account based in the Chechen Republic.
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"He knew," my father said, standing over a bank of monitors in what used to be Nathan's study. "He knew he might get caught one day. This isn't an escape fund, Elara. This is a war chest."
Nathan wasn't just sitting in his cell waiting for trial. He was buying a counter-attack.
