Chapter 7 - THE LEDGERMarcus broke after forty-eight hours.
Not because he feared prison.
Because he feared the people above him.
He agreed to cooperate.
Federal investigators examined the ledger recovered from Helen's apartment.
Names began appearing.
Companies.
Shell corporations.
Offshore accounts.
Politicians.
Businessmen.
Middlemen.
And then they found something unexpected.
Richard had not simply been borrowing money.
He had been hiding money.
Millions of dollars.
Money he had stolen from the same organization now demanding repayment.
Francesca stared at the documents.
“This is bigger than Richard.”
Helen looked at her.
“How much bigger?”
Francesca lowered the folder.
“Big enough to bury people.”
The investigation expanded.
Federal agents began arresting associates.
But one name remained missing.
The person who had ordered Marcus to find Helen.
The person who had known about the settlement.
The person who had apparently known exactly where Helen and Sarah had fled.
Someone had been feeding information from inside.
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And Helen suddenly wondered—
Who?
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