“Your company gets dragged into it too.”
“The media loves stories like this.”
“You really want your business associated with family scandals?”
Ethan slowly looked up.
“I’d rather survive one scandal…”
“…than spend the rest of my life married to a lie.”
Vanessa abruptly stood.
“I loved you!”
“No.”
His voice broke.
“You loved what you thought you could take from me.”
She stepped toward him.
Margaret immediately moved between them.
“We’re not finished.”
She opened the blue investigation folder.
Inside were financial statements.
Corporate records.
Property transfers.
Emails.
Bank documents.
Photographs.
Weeks of investigative work.
“And unfortunately…”
Margaret continued,
“…the engagement isn’t the biggest problem anymore.”
Vanessa stared at her.
“What do you mean?”
She removed another file.
“Vanessa Mitchell personally guaranteed two commercial loans connected to a company called Summit Legacy Holdings.”
“On paper, it’s a real estate consulting firm.”
“In reality…”
“It functioned primarily as a vehicle to move money between shell corporations controlled by George Mitchell.”
