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Chapter 84 – Skeletons in the Closet

Penulis: Olivia GW
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-23 13:12:41

Natalie’s POV

The office was too quiet for a Wednesday morning.

Most people were in meetings or glued to the ongoing Maison Vivra updates, but my corner of York International felt like a crime scene—one where I was the only detective left standing.

Numbers stared back at me from the dual monitors. Shipment codes. Supplier IDs. Payment ledgers that looked too clean, too perfectly balanced.

And there it was again—the email.

No sender name. No signature. Just the ledger.

The first time I’d read it, I’d assumed it was junk or some ex-employee trying to stir trouble. But curiosity had its own gravitational pull, and I’d fallen straight into orbit.

I’d spent the past two hours cross-referencing ProcureEx with York’s supplier database. Most entries came up blank. But one—just one—had pinged a match.

ProcureEx was listed as a third-tier intermediary for Maison Vivra’s fabric shipments. On paper, the company didn’t exist. In practice, it was moving millions of dollars’ worth of material throu
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