The hidden accounts.
The condo with Lauren.
The shell company used to move money.
The lies under oath.
Fraud.
Tax evasion.
Perjury.
The room shifted.
Julian stopped looking like a winner.
He looked like someone realizing the ground had disappeared beneath him.
Then came the final blow.
The company used to move money?
It wasn’t in his name.
It wasn’t in Trent’s.
It was in my mother’s.
She didn’t even understand what she had signed.
But legally, she was responsible.
When I showed her the document, she broke.
“I didn’t know,” she whispered.
“They needed someone to take the fall,” I said.
She looked at Julian.
He said nothing.
Everything collapsed after that.
Julian was disbarred.
Then charged.
Fraud. Perjury. Tax evasion.
Lauren disappeared.
Trent was arrested.
