FINANCIAL SHIELDS. Emma's POV. The morning sun barely hit the high windows of the penthouse kitchen when my laptop screen lit up with an urgent alert from Joel, and as I scrolled through the attached court documents, a harsh laugh escaped my lips because Derek had actually gone through with his pathetic threat to freeze every single one of my old personal bank accounts. He truly believed that by cutting off my access to a few thousand dollars, he could starve me into submission and force me to come crawling back to his messy house to beg for his forgiveness, but he had absolutely no idea that the small restaurant account he targeted was nothing compared to the massive financial power I was currently holding as a Quinn and a Zander. "You look remarkably amused for a woman who was just

