Chapter 4 - The Paper Trail
The soft glow of the corporate tablet illuminated Claire’s beautiful, determined face in the dark office.
Before marrying Vincent, Claire hadn't been a naive socialite. She had been a ruthless, top-tier forensic auditor for a massive Wall Street firm. She knew exactly how to follow the money, and she knew that wealthy men always, inevitably, left a digital footprint of their arrogance.
Claire correctly guessed Vincent’s six-digit passcode—it was Sophia’s birthdate.
The moment she unlocked the device, a sickening wave of nausea washed over her. The tablet was filled with explicit photos, romantic emails, and endless messages mocking Claire’s postpartum body. But Claire forced herself to ignore the emotional trauma. She dug straight into the encrypted financial applications.
Vincent was a billionaire, but his personal accounts didn't show a massive six-million-dollar deduction.
Claire’s eyes narrowed as she pulled up the corporate routing numbers. She tracked the wire transfer through three different offshore shell companies based in the Cayman Islands.
The realization made her blood run absolutely ice cold.
Vincent hadn't used his own money to buy his mistress a mansion. He had illegally bypassed the corporate security protocols and embezzled six point five million dollars directly from the Moretti Family Master Trust—the sacred, untouchable financial reserve controlled entirely by his terrifying grandfather.
Vincent was arrogant enough to believe that because he was the acting CEO, the board wouldn't notice the missing capital until the next quarterly review. He thought he had plenty of time to cover his tracks and manipulate the books.
He had committed massive, undeniable federal corporate fraud.
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Claire didn't just screenshot the evidence. She downloaded the master ledgers, the forged signature authorizations, and the real estate deeds directly onto a secure encrypted flash drive.
👉 Claire slipped the flash drive into her purse, knowing that the ultimate revenge required the wrath of a true monster.
