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Chapter 10
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Billionaire Heir Stops Pretending Chapter 10
The day after sentencing, I had Daniel take the divorce agreement into the prison.In the visiting room, Claire signed her name with both cuffed hands shaking.When I came back out through the gates the sunlight was almost painful, and I stood there and took one long breath.Three years of weight came off my chest and stayed off.Whatever that woman and I had been, it was over.A year went by faster than I expected.In that year I took full control of Ford Holdings.The supermarket that scandal had killed, I tore down to the studs and rebuilt from nothing.I brought in Vivian's fund as the lead strategic investor and built a new fresh-food brand on it — fully transparent sourcing, end to end, built around high-grade organic produce.With Ford capital behind it and Vivian reading the board three moves ahead, it went from one location to national coverage inside twelve months and became the largest fresh-food supplier in the country.At the end of that year, Ford Holdings held
Billionaire Heir Stops Pretending Chapter 9
Three months later.The courtroom didn't have an empty seat in it.I sat in the front row, on the plaintiff's side.And sitting next to me, running the whole proceeding as Ford Holdings' retained lead counsel, was Vivian Lane.Claire and Zach sat at the defense table in prison jumpsuits with their hair cropped down to nothing, and neither of them looked like they'd slept in a month. There was nothing in their faces but fear.The trial had come to the closing arguments, and this was where it got bloody.Zach's attorney was working hard to paint him as a soft-headed gym trainer who'd been blinded by love and had no idea what the company was doing — the weak accomplice, worth a lighter sentence."Your Honor, my client is a personal trainer. He has no financial background whatsoever. He doesn't understand accounting. Every one of those transfers was executed by Ms. Bennett using his account, and he had no knowledge—""Objection."Vivian rose without hurrying and didn't bother look
Billionaire Heir Stops Pretending Chapter 8
Sirens came up the street and got louder until they filled the building.Police in full gear came through the broken entrance with food-safety inspectors right behind them, and they had the floor under control in under a minute."That's enough! Both of you, hands where I can see them!"An officer barked it and they pulled Claire and Zach apart by force, still clawing at each other's eyes on the ground, and put cuffs on both of them.The cold metal closing on her wrist finally brought Claire back into her own body.She looked at the armed officers standing around her. Then she looked at me, watching her without a word.And she was afraid.She wrenched herself out of the officer's grip and dropped onto her knees in front of me, hard enough that her forehead came down on broken glass, and she didn't seem to feel it. She put her head to the floor and sobbed."Ethan. Ethan, I was wrong."I know I was wrong, I swear to God I do."Please. After three years, after everything — just t
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It took less than half an hour for the answer to come down from the second floor.Martin Reeves, the lead auditor, came down the stairs with a tablet in his hand and pushed his findings straight onto the big screen without being asked."Mr. Ford. Ms. Lane."He pushed his glasses up and read the charges off in a voice with absolutely nothing in it."On preliminary review, there is a substantial hole in these accounts."Over the past six months, Claire Bennett and Zach Turner used falsified procurement contracts to move five point three million dollars out of the store's accounts and into Mr. Turner's personal offshore accounts. Twenty-seven separate transfers."That constitutes criminal misappropriation at the most serious tier."Zach's face emptied out. His knees gave and he sat straight down on the floor."There's more," Martin said, and changed the screen.Inspection reports came up, one after another, then the purchase records behind them."To paper over that five-million-
Billionaire Heir Stops Pretending Chapter 6
Claire stared at the ownership file on that screen, and every trace of life went out of her face.For years she'd told herself the investment came because someone recognized her talent. She'd told herself she'd climbed out of where she started on her own two feet. She'd bragged to Zach, more than once, about building the whole thing from nothing."No."Her voice cracked open."That isn't real. You're lying to me. You've been lying to me!"Zach, who still hadn't worked out what kind of room he was standing in, decided to argue."So what if you put the money in? Claire's the legal representative! She has every right to run this store however she wants, and you can't do a thing about it!""Is that right?"I laughed at him the way you laugh at something slow.Then I called Daniel Shaw, Ford Holdings' general counsel, and put him on speaker where everyone could hear it."Daniel. Start the emergency protocol."One. Remove Claire Bennett as legal representative and strip every mana
Billionaire Heir Stops Pretending Chapter 5
Nobody in the building made a sound.Claire's mind had simply stopped."Mr. Ford?" Her lips were moving before the rest of her caught up. "What do you mean, Mr. Ford?"Her eyes went back and forth between Vivian and me and couldn't settle on either.Zach looked worse. His whole face had locked up.He tugged at Claire's sleeve and started stammering."Baby, she's got the wrong guy, right? She has to."That's your broke husband. The one who does the laundry. How could he possibly be—""Close your mouth."Diane Coyle, Vivian's chief of staff, had already stepped forward. Her voice went out across the floor like a blade."The man standing in front of you is Ethan Ford."He is the sole heir to Ford Holdings, and he owns the ground this entire luxury complex is built on."Now somebody explain to me who gave you permission to lay hands on a Ford, on Ford property."The crowd came apart.The same people who'd been enjoying a cheating scandal five minutes earlier went very quiet,
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