Chapter 7 - The Master Cloud Directory
Judge Thorne didn't stop the audio. She swiped through the tablet’s file manager, discovering a second folder labeled Vance Corporate Offshore Accounts.
Noah had not only recorded his father’s threats; the six-year-old—who spent hours playing educational tech games in his father’s study—had unknowingly synced Julian’s secondary phone cloud backup to the family tablet.
Inside the folder were hundreds of encrypted financial transfers proving Julian had embezzled over forty million dollars from Vance Enterprises into tax havens, while transferring five hundred thousand dollars to a shell company owned by the court-appointed custody evaluator.
“Mr. Vance,” Judge Thorne declared, her face rigid as iron. “You are not only in aggravated contempt of this court, but you are also under immediate arrest for witness tampering, child endangerment, bribery of an officer of the court, and grand larceny.”
Julian, pinned against the railing with his hair disheveled and eyes wide with frantic desperation, looked back at his son.
“Noah... how could you do this to your father?!” Julian sobbed, his arrogant facade completely destroyed.
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Noah looked back at him from his mother's arms, his voice soft yet unshakeable. “You hurt Mom. Mom never hurts anyone.”
👉 Read PART 8 to see how the court evaluator was arrested in the hallway!
