Chapter 32 - Amber’s Secret DiscoveryThat evening, Amber sat at her kitchen table reviewing financial transparency reports for the whistleblower foundation. Despite her volunteer work, she had never shaken the feeling that something was missing from the federal indictments. Certain accounts linked to the Caterpillar Trust had been frozen, but not fully liquidated.
Driven by a sudden intuition, she accessed an unredacted database of international shell companies that Evelyn Shaw had helped recover. As her eyes scanned a complex web of subsidiary transfers originating from a Swiss holding firm named Vance & Sterling Holdings, her breath caught.
The company hadn't dissolved after Richard Sterling’s conviction. It had been restructured under a new name: Aegis Global Logistics. And its primary asset acquisition project for the upcoming quarter was a massive real estate development in the very neighborhood where Thomas and Noah now lived.
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Before Amber could pick up her phone to call Thomas, the lights in her apartment flickered and died. The sudden darkness was absolute.
Before she could reach for her flashlight, a floorboard creaked near her hallway. Someone was inside her apartment.
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