It felt as if an invisible hand had seized my heart and nearly stopped it. Trembling, I clicked it open. The contents ripped apart everything I had believed about the past twenty years. There were countless confidential PDF files, bank transfer records, and endless surveillance footage. The first file showed the truth behind the Blackwell family's so-called bankruptcy. Lucian had never gone bankrupt at all. He had used that so-called family crisis to stage a clean exit. In secret, he purged every faction in the family that opposed him and transferred all assets under the name of Ascendant Capital, a shell company. Now, he wasn't some penniless nobody. He was the hidden hand controlling Blackridge's entire business world. The second file contained bank transfer records and immigrat

