Chapter 13: The Missing Auditor
Damian was charged with conspiracy, fraud, obstruction, and suspected involvement in Aaron Pike’s disappearance.
The evidence appeared overwhelming.
Messages from Damian’s phone ordered someone to “deal with Pike.”
Money had been transferred from one of his private accounts on the night Aaron disappeared.
A damaged watch belonging to Aaron had been recovered from a warehouse owned by Damian’s company.
Damian insisted Veronica had created everything.
No one believed him.
Elena did not trust Damian.
But she recognized the design.
It was the same method used against her.
True information surrounded by one carefully placed lie.
She examined the payment records.
The money had not gone to a criminal contractor.
It had gone to a private medical transportation service.
Elena contacted the company.
They had transported an unidentified injured man from New York to a rehabilitation facility in Vermont.
Julian and federal investigators traveled there.
Aaron Pike was alive.
He had survived a staged car accident after discovering Monarch Ridge.
Thomas had arranged the transportation, but Veronica later intercepted the records and used them to frame Damian.
Aaron had spent months recovering under a false name.
He carried one final piece of evidence.
A handwritten notebook documenting every Monarch transaction.
The altered male voice in Mara’s recording belonged to Nathan Hale.
Veronica’s father.
Nathan Hale had built a private investment network by forcing vulnerable companies into financial distress and purchasing them through hidden trusts.
Veronica had been preparing to inherit the network.
Damian was her access point.
Voss Global was intended to become her crown.
Nathan was arrested at his Connecticut estate.
Veronica was captured at a private airfield while attempting to leave the country.
During the preliminary hearing, she appeared calm.
“Elena Voss is not a victim,” Veronica told the judge. “She used corporate power to punish a man who embarrassed her.”
Her attorney submitted one final recording.
Elena’s voice played across the courtroom.
“I don’t care what it costs. Destroy him completely.”
The courtroom went silent.
The recording had been made days before Damian’s empire collapsed.
Reporters turned toward Elena.
May you like
Veronica smiled from the defense table.
Because this recording was real.
