Chapter 6 - The Federal AuditGrant grabbed the edge of the conference table, his knuckles turning stark white, trembling from head to toe. “S-Security! Remove this impostor! She’s—she’s trespassing!”
Not a single security guard moved.
Instead, the side doors of the boardroom opened, and three armed federal economic crime agents walked into the room, flanked by Mara Chen carrying a thick leather briefcase.
Mara stepped forward, flashing her legal credentials to the stunned board members.
“I am Mara Chen, lead counsel for the Evelyn Vance Litigation Trust,” she announced clearly. “Effective immediately, all executive voting rights, administrative privileges, and asset management controls held by Grant Vance and Thomas Vance are revoked under federal investigation for corporate fraud, forgery, and attempted murder.”
Panic exploded across the boardroom. Directors stood up, shouting over one another, realizing they had sat quietly while a criminal conspiracy and a murder plot unfolded right under their noses.
My father buried his face in his trembling hands, weeping openly, finally broken by the crushing weight of his own cowardice.
“Look at the screens, everyone,” I commanded, raising my voice to cut through the chaos.
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I plugged my secure flash drive into the central conference console.
Instantly, the corporate logo on the massive overhead monitors vanished. In its place, a detailed, unarguable financial ledger lit up the room—showing every fraudulent loan, every forged signature, every offshore wire transfer, and the certified transcripts of the family meeting at the lake house recorded by my phone’s backup cloud server before Grant dropped it into the water.
