Chapter 17 - The Counterattack
At 8:00 a.m., we filed the archive documents.
At 8:15, the debt acceleration was suspended.
At 8:40, Swiss authorities froze Helena’s accounts.
At 9:10, federal agents entered Solmere headquarters.
At 9:32, Malcolm Pierce signed a cooperation agreement.
At 10:00, Owen Mercer testified.
At 10:17, Marcus surrendered his law license pending investigation and delivered his statement.
At 11:03, Gideon confessed to the cover-up.
At noon, Vanessa held a press conference.
She began with me.
“Two days ago, I dragged Charlotte Vale across the floor of a hotel she owned because I believed wealth made me more important than a woman in cheap clothes.”
She swallowed.
“I was wrong before I ever knew her name.”
Then she exposed her mother.
The video spread everywhere.
Public opinion turned.
But Helena remained missing.
Daniel found her plan.
She intended to invoke an emergency asset-sale clause through an offshore subsidiary.
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If executed, the flagship Solmere properties would transfer beyond American jurisdiction.
We had less than six hours.
