Chapter 10 - The Hidden Account
The investigation moved quickly.
The USB contained dozens of files.
Bank transfers.
Hotel contracts.
Private messages.
Photographs.
And one encrypted folder.
Thomas's attorney opened the first records.
A pattern emerged.
Money had been moved through the hotel for almost four years.
Millions.
Thomas stared at the figures.
“Who authorized this?”
The attorney pointed to the signatures.
Thomas recognized one immediately.
His nephew.
Daniel.
Thomas sat back.
Daniel had handled family investments for years.
He had always been trustworthy.
Or so Thomas believed.
Evelyn suddenly whispered:
“He promised he would help me.”
Thomas turned.
“Daniel?”
She nodded.
“He said he could get my son back.”
Claire's face hardened.
“So Daniel introduced you to Marcus.”
“I didn't know Marcus was involved.”
“You knew enough to hide it.”
Evelyn looked at Claire.
“I was trying to save my child.”
Claire's voice softened slightly.
“And I understand that.”
Then she looked at Thomas.
“But that doesn't erase what happened to me.”
Thomas nodded.
“No.”
He looked at the files.
Daniel had transferred money to Marcus.
Marcus had threatened Evelyn.
Evelyn had been forced into the family.
Claire had discovered the network.
Everything connected.
But one question remained.
Why had Daniel needed Thomas's family money?
The attorney opened another file.
Thomas stared at the screen.
It showed a company he had never heard of.
The company owned the hotel.
And the hotel's ownership documents contained one surprising name.
Thomas's own.
Not personally.
Through a trust.
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The same trust Daniel had been trying to take control of.
👉 The money trail had begun as a theft, but it was becoming clear that the real target had always been Thomas's entire family fortune.
