Chapter 5 - The Hidden LedgerVictoria’s threat kept me awake all night. What did she mean?
The next morning, I drove to my grandmother’s old estate in the countryside—a home that had been boarded up since her passing four years ago. I bypassed the police tape and entered the dusty library, searching for answers.
Behind a mahogany bookshelf, I found what I was looking for: my grandmother’s personal safe. Using her birthdate, I unlocked it.
Inside lay a black leather bound notebook labeled 1998–2018.
As I flipped through the yellowed pages, the horror unfolded before my eyes. My grandmother hadn't just known the Vance family—she had been business partners with Arthur Vance twenty-five years ago.
And the real truth was far worse than financial fraud: Vance Construction wasn't founded by Dominic’s father. It was stolen from my grandfather through a brutal corporate takeover that drove my grandfather to an early grave.
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My grandmother had spent two decades meticulously rebuilding her wealth, waiting for the right moment. She had engineered my meeting with Dominic. She knew Dominic’s cruel nature, predicted his actions, and laid a twenty-year trap using her trust fund to legally reclaim everything the Vances had stolen from our bloodline.
I wasn't just a victim escaping abuse. I was the weapon my grandmother had designed to destroy the Vance empire once and for all.
