My seven-year-old pressed the panic button twice , He thought he disabled the security quietly, but he forgot I would hear my son anyway.
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Chapter 12 - THE SECOND SECRET The audit uncovered something unexpected.
The Bellandis really had financial problems.
Not the criminal operation Chad invented.
But real weaknesses.
Cash transactions had been poorly documented.
Family reimbursements had been informal.
Related-party loans had sometimes been approved without proper review.
Nothing proved Jackson personally ran the operation described in the ledger.
But the family's old system had created the perfect environment for a lie.
Jackson finally understood Chad's strategy.
He hadn't created a completely fictional world.
He had taken the family's real weaknesses and built a convincing monster around them.
The fake evidence didn't need to be perfect.
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It only needed to be believable.
That was why it was dangerous.
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Chapter 13 - THE MAN BEHIND THE PLAN Investigators reconstructed Chad's movements.
Chapter 14 - THE CONFRONTATION Jackson met Chad in a downtown law office.
Chapter 15 - THE COURTROOM The prosecutors did not need to exaggerate.
Chapter 16 - THE PRICE OF TELLING THE TRUTH The refinancing nearly collapsed.
Chapter 17 - THE BUTTON On a Tuesday afternoon, Leo stood in the hallway holding his emergency device.
Chapter 18 - THE NEW BELLANDI Months passed.
