Chapter 129: His Whispering Wave
Unaware of the looming threat, Aveline continued focusing on the Bloom and Grace center and searching for clients while designing her floral art for the exhibit.
Meanwhile, the evidence against Damien for forgery and falsification stood solid. His status changed from detainment for interrogation to custody, and he was formally charged under the law.
Scarlett’s boyfriend, Nathaniel Rousseau aka Nate, who had been working in the shadows, completed another major corporate espionage operation.
When he had started as a data analyst in one of Damien’s projects, he was doing it for Aveline. Now that he had completed it, it had become personal, revenge for stepping into Scarlett’s space.
He was a ghost in the system, the kind that left no fingerprints until it was too late. Over weeks, he quietly siphoned encrypted files, transaction records, internal emails, and evidence of non-disclosure violations from Damien’s proxy firms and shell companies.
He built a trail of evidence that exposed money laundering, unauthorized surveillance operations, and illegal acquisitions, enough to turn Damien’s empire upside down.
His final blow came wrapped in an untraceable report, handed directly to the Financial Crimes Bureau and Department of Justice.
It wasn’t dramatic. There were no sirens, no chases, just a slow, certain crumbling of everything Damien had tried to keep buried.
By the time Damien received word of the investigation opening against him, another noose was tightening.
Sitting behind bars, as Damien scrambled to contain the storm Nate had unleashed, another front collapsed. This time in broad daylight.
Edward Lancaster was calculated and unapologetically ruthless when he made his move. In the boardrooms of Ashford Holdings, where panic had begun to set in, Edward emerged not as a rival but as a solution.
Through discreet acquisitions and leveraged proxies, he systematically bought out minor shareholders and flipped wavering board members with promises of stability and returns Damien could no longer guarantee.