Chapter 17 - My Turn
The receiver was removed forty-eight hours later.
The court recognized my presumptive controlling voting authority pending final adjudication.
I returned to Solmere headquarters.
This time nobody stopped me.
I fired Adrian Mercer.
Terminated every contract linked to Winter Harbor.
Suspended executives involved in unauthorized transfers.
Then I did something Marcus never expected.
I released the forensic audit publicly.
Every payment.
Every shell corporation.
Every fake invoice.
Every board approval.
Sunlight did what lawsuits could not.
People started talking.
James Bell, the mechanic, surrendered.
He admitted Adrian paid him to sabotage my mother’s braking system.
But Bell insisted the intention was to scare her.
Not kill her.
The private ambulance told a different story.
Its former driver testified that Marcus himself had been waiting inside a warehouse when my mother was brought there.
She was alive.
Conscious.
Demanding to see me.
The driver said Marcus entered the ambulance alone.
Seven minutes later, he came out.
My mother never spoke again.
Marcus was arrested the next morning.
But Adrian disappeared.
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And so did one critical item.
My mother’s original phone from Room 1708.
