118: Lyra Uncovers a Shell Company

Lyra sat hunched over her desk, the dim light of her office casting long shadows across stacks of papers. She had spent hours poring over financial documents, her eyes scanning for something, anything, that might shed light on Elias Stone’s connection to James. The more she uncovered, the more she realized the depth of their collaboration — and the true scale of their manipulation.

Her heart raced as she uncovered a series of financial transactions, each one more damning than the last. A shell company had been funneling money directly to James, and the accounts linked back to Elias’s business front.

She muttered to herself, “This is it... this is the smoking gun.”

With a trembling hand, Lyra clicked open the encrypted file. The numbers were so clean, so perfectly masked, but there was no mistaking it — Elias’s fingerprints were all over it. The accounts were tied to a secret shell company, its transactions deliberately hidden behind layers of false identities. The man was clever, too