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CHAPTER 107

Author: Rejoice Ezeh
last update publish date: 2026-04-14 23:42:55

James made the call himself.

He did not ask Nyla to arrange it or Cameron to recommend someone. He found the attorney on his own — a criminal defence lawyer named Arthur Mensah who had spent thirty years handling exactly this category of case: financial crimes with coercion at the root. He called Arthur's office at eight in the morning and had an appointment by noon.

Nyla found out when he told her afterward.

She had expected to be involved. She had expected to manage it the way she had learned
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    Cameron did not call Nyla immediately.He drove back from the café and sat in the car in the building's parking structure for eleven minutes. Tobias texted twice. He did not reply. He needed the eleven minutes to put his face back together before he was around anyone who knew how to read it.Then he went upstairs and told Nyla everything.---Maya Price had been thirty-one years old when she died.Financial journalist. Sharp, meticulous, the kind of writer who spent six months on a story before she was willing to put her name on it. She had worked for a mid-sized investigative outlet — not the largest platform, but respected, the kind of publication that serious people took seriously. She had been found in her apartment five years ago. The official cause was blunt force trauma. The case had remained open and inactive for four of those five years.Cameron had kept his own file. Nyla had known this in the way she knew things about him that he had never directly told her — through the ga

  • Killed And Reborn, I Found True Love    CHAPTER 108

    Cameron got the message on a Tuesday.It came through a man named Patrick Osei — no relation to Patricia — who ran a private security consultancy and had worked adjacent to both Cameron's world and some considerably darker ones over the years. Patrick sent a single line: *Someone who knows you wants a conversation. Says it's worth your time. Her name is Lisa Carver.*Cameron read it. He told Nyla.She was quiet for a moment."Meet her," she said. "But not alone.""Tobias can cover the perimeter," he said. "You stay out of it. If she sees you she closes up."Nyla looked at him."She won't be honest with me in the room," he said. "She will be with you absent from it."Nyla accepted that. She did not like it, but she accepted it.---The café was neutral — Cameron's choice, public, good sight lines from both the entrance and the street. He arrived first. He sat with his back to the wall and a coffee he wasn't drinking and waited.Lisa came in seven minutes late. He almost didn't recognis

  • Killed And Reborn, I Found True Love    CHAPTER 107

    James made the call himself.He did not ask Nyla to arrange it or Cameron to recommend someone. He found the attorney on his own — a criminal defence lawyer named Arthur Mensah who had spent thirty years handling exactly this category of case: financial crimes with coercion at the root. He called Arthur's office at eight in the morning and had an appointment by noon.Nyla found out when he told her afterward.She had expected to be involved. She had expected to manage it the way she had learned to manage most things — from the front, with full information, keeping her hands on every variable. Instead her father had simply acted. She sat with the surprise of that and recognised it for what it was: James doing the thing he had spent twenty-two years not doing. Moving without waiting to be pushed.She told him she was proud of him.He nodded once and looked at the table. He was not ready to receive it yet. She understood that and did not press.---The disclosure was filed within forty-e

  • Killed And Reborn, I Found True Love    CHAPTER 106

    They sat in the garden for a long time.She did not fill the silence with reassurance. That would have been easier and less honest, and he deserved honesty more than he deserved ease. She sat with him and let the weight of what he had told her be what it was — real, heavy, not something she was going to make smaller by rushing past it.He had taken money from the company. He had done it over twenty-two years. He had done it under threat and out of fear and with the intention of repayment that never fully came. All of those things were true simultaneously. She did not need to resolve them into something simpler in order to decide what to do next."I'm not going to tell you it's alright," she said finally. "It's not alright. What you did damaged the company and it's part of why I came back to accounts that were in worse shape than they should have been." She looked at him directly. "But I also understand how it happened. I understand the corner he put you in. And I understand that twent

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    Patricia Osei called back within the hour.She had spoken to Harmon's legal team directly — a brief, careful exchange designed to understand the shape of the threat before responding to it. She relayed what she'd learned without editorialising.Harmon's position was this: he held documentation showing that James Harper had drawn funds from Harper Industries' operating accounts between the years of the company's peak earnings and the beginning of its financial decline. The withdrawals were disguised as consulting fees and vendor payments. The total, across twenty-two years, was significant. Harmon was prepared to submit this documentation to the SEC, the board, and three financial news outlets simultaneously unless Nyla agreed to withdraw her opposition to his board seat and halt the counter-acquisition of shares."He's describing the hush money payments to Robert," Nyla said."Yes," Patricia said. "The documentation is technically accurate. The context — that James was acting under du

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    Tobias did not believe it was a heart attack.He said so plainly, the same evening, sitting across from Nyla and Cameron at the kitchen table with the medical examiner's preliminary report on the screen in front of him."Fitch's cardiac history is real," he said. "I'm not disputing that. But the car was in the structure for eleven hours before he was found. The time of death window is wide — the ME puts it somewhere between midnight and six in the morning. That's not a man who went down to his car for a reason and had a heart attack on the way. That's a man who was in his car in the middle of the night.""You can't prove that's wrong," Cameron said."No," Tobias said. "Which is exactly how it was designed."Nyla said nothing for a moment. She thought about Gerald Fitch — his reliable presence at every board meeting she could remember from childhood, the way he had always voted with the company's long-term interests over short-term pressure. He had been the kind of board member money c

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    Nyla called Cameron and told him they needed to talk. In person. Privately.He suggested his office. She said no. Too formal. Too many people around. They agreed to meet at a small coffee shop in a quiet neighborhood where nobody would recognize them.Nyla arrived first. Ordered tea she did not dri

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    Eric was pacing in the living room when Nyla walked through the door."Where have you been?" His voice was sharp with barely controlled panic. "You have been gone for hours. I called you three times.""I went out," Nyla said, setting her purse down."Out where?""Shopping.""Shopping." Eric stared

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    Eric was being unbearably sweet."You look absolutely stunning tonight," Eric said for the fourth time. "That dress is perfect on you."Nyla smiled without warmth. "Thank you."When they arrived at the Grand Plaza Hotel, Eric practically leaped out to open her door again. He offered his arm. Smiled

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    The first creditor called three days after the bankruptcy filing."Mr. Harper? This is First National Bank calling about your outstanding loan. We need to discuss payment arrangements.""I filed for bankruptcy," Eric said."Corporate bankruptcy. Not personal bankruptcy. Your personal guarantees on

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