Chapter 4 - The FreezeAt eight o'clock the next morning, Connor's world began collapsing.
His corporate accounts were frozen.
Then his personal accounts.
Then his investment portfolios.
His credit cards stopped working.
His corporate attorneys stopped returning calls.
By noon, three board members had resigned.
By evening, federal investigators had requested access to Apex Innovations' financial records.
Connor stood inside his office overlooking Washington, D.C., staring at the skyline.
His phone rang again.
"Mr. Fleming, this is your bank. We've received a federal preservation order."
Connor hung up.
It rang again.
Another creditor.
Then another.
The empire he had spent five years building wasn't disappearing slowly.
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It was being dismantled piece by piece.
And somewhere in the middle of the chaos was the woman he had once believed was too broken to fight him.
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