Chapter 12 - The Ghost AccountEleanor gave me an encrypted bank account number.
"This was created by your mother."
"For what?"
"Insurance."
The account contained billions.
Not millions.
Billions.
Hidden assets accumulated over decades.
My mother had been preparing for the day Solmere was attacked.
But there was another file.
PROJECT DAWN.
I opened it.
A list of charitable foundations appeared.
Children's hospitals.
Scholarship funds.
Women's shelters.
Affordable housing programs.
My mother had secretly redirected corporate profits into them.
Arthur had tried to erase those records.
I realized something.
My mother hadn't built Solmere simply to become rich.
She had built it to protect people.
That was why the Vanguard wanted it.
Not because of the hotels.
Because of the network.
The influence.
The capital.
The power.
I closed the file.
Then the office lights flickered.
Eleanor looked frightened.
"Charlotte..."
"What?"
"They know you're looking."
The windows shattered.
May you like
We dropped to the floor.
A bullet struck the wall above my head.
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