Chapter 6 - The Paper Trail of Betrayal
Dorian’s expression hardened into pure granite. The air in the office grew suffocatingly cold as he scrolled through the signed disbursement receipts on his screen.
"Who told you that?" Dorian asked, his voice dangerously low.
"Arthur Vance... your cousin," Marin confessed quietly, holding her sweater tightly around her shoulders. "He came to my apartment two weeks after Lucas’s funeral. He brought official company papers stating that Lucas was at fault for the site collapse. He said... he said out of the goodness of his heart, he would give me a janitorial job in the building so I could pay off Lucas’s equipment debt."
Dorian’s jaw clenched so hard a muscle twitched in his cheek.
Arthur Vance was the head of corporate human resources—a position Dorian had given his cousin three years ago to keep peace within the family empire.
Dorian turned his screen around, revealing the digital signature on the two-million-dollar wire release form. The signature was dated fifteen months ago, bearing the stamp of an offshore holding company registered directly under Arthur Vance’s name.
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Arthur hadn't just denied her pension. He had stolen the widow's payout, forced her into manual labor while crippled by a spinal injury, and used her late husband's name to steal two million dollars from the company trust.
👉 Read on as Dorian sets a trap for his own blood relative.
