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Chapter 8 - THE RECKONINGWithin forty-eight hours, the financial empire of Miami’s elite collapsed like a house of cards built on sand.

The headlines on every major news network flashed across the screens in Rosa’s safe house:

BREAKING: MASSIVE CORRUPTION RING EXPOSED; MIAMI TYCOON HAROLD BENNETT ARRESTED ALONG WITH FEDERAL OFFICIALS. EDWARD CALLOWAY EXONERATED: FROZEN ASSETS RETURNED AFTER MULTI-YEAR EMBEZZLEMENT SCHEME UNCOVERED.

My former wife, Vanessa, was arrested at Miami International Airport trying to board a private flight to Zurich with two designer suitcases stuffed with bearer bonds. Her high-priced divorce attorney dropped her representation within twenty minutes of the indictment.

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The courts restored my assets, my properties, and my name. The board of directors at Calloway Development was thoroughly purged, and investors who had abandoned me during my darkest hour now lined up outside my temporary office, begging for forgiveness, offering apologies I had no interest in hearing.

But there was only one person I wanted to see.

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