Chapter 24 - THE MOTHER WHO FOUGHT BACK Elias finally called Eleanor.

“Mrs. Sterling.”
“You sound nervous.”
He laughed.
“You’re remarkably inconvenient.”
“You targeted my child.”
“A strategic necessity.”
Something inside Eleanor became perfectly calm.
She did not scream.
She did not threaten him.
She smiled.
“Check your accounts.”
Silence.
Then furious typing.
Victoria’s ledger had already been transmitted to regulators, investigators, and journalists across several countries.
Accounts began freezing.
One after another.
“You foolish woman.”
“No, Elias.”
Eleanor looked toward Julian.
“I’m the mother whose baby you reduced to a line on a spreadsheet.”
His voice hardened.
“You have no idea what you’ve started.”
Eleanor answered:
May you like
“Neither did you.”
Then she disconnected.
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