Chapter 5 - Lighting the Fuse
The fallout from the email was immediate and highly entertaining.
According to Vance, who had tapped a few public feeds, Sarah confronted Leo at a restaurant.
She threw a glass of wine in his face and stormed out of the establishment.
My mother tried to call me twenty-seven times in the span of two hours.
I ignored every single call, watching her panic grow in real time.
Instead of answering, I went to court with Marcus to file a protective order.
I also filed a preemptive report with the IRS regarding the forged signatures.
I provided the agency with all the evidence David had compiled.
By blowing the whistle on the fraudulent charity myself, I secured full immunity.
I proved that I had no knowledge of their illicit activities.
My parents, on the other hand, were completely exposed to the federal government.
Later that afternoon, I received a frantic text from my father.
He demanded that I answer my phone because the bank had frozen his accounts.
The IRS moves incredibly fast when millions of dollars are involved.
I finally decided to pick up the phone on his thirty-fifth attempt.
Before he could even start screaming, I spoke with complete calm.
I told him I knew about the forged charity documents and Leo's gambling debts.
The silence on the other end of the line was absolute perfection.
I could hear him breathing heavily, struggling to process that his schemes were dead.
I told him that the penthouse was mine, the money was mine, and the game was over.
Then I hung up and permanently blocked his number.
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I poured myself a glass of expensive bourbon.
The war was escalating rapidly, and I was holding all the heavy artillery.
