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"When did they try to hack into the system?"

"Two days after the newsreel. Security cameras found a night maid trying to get into my office but she was handled. We have her in custody now. All trails lead right back to your mother. She isn't privy to our knowledge."

Mikel was currently on an urgent video call with her friend Chaswick. Vincent was present in the office but in a serious conversation with Dominic's head of security.

"The files they tried to get a hold of. What were they?" she asked.

Chaswick brought up a mirror screen of the file number her mother was trying to access. "Dominic's will?!"

"And the deeds along with every stipulation for the businesses he placed in your name," Chaswick added. She looked at him, who gave her a nod and sat back in his chair. She warned him of her mother's tactics just to get her hand on the company's account. It was always about money for her. Absentmindedly she watched as the sun played with his chestnut brown hair and lit up his ocean-blue