Part 2: The Core Asset Audit
The transition from a surprise domestic encounter to an absolute, calculated financial foreclosure took exactly fifteen minutes.
While my security team secured the perimeter against the anonymous kitchen threat, I moved Hannah into the private study.
I didn't listen to her frantic explanations about why she vanished from Chicago seven years ago with our shared secrets.
I initialized an immediate, real-time data analysis on my primary desktop terminal, locking down our joint accounts.
"The numbers match the forensic profile we compiled during the winter audit, Julian," Marcus Bell reported through the link.
"Hannah didn't just register the child under a hidden nameplate to shield her from the Blackthorne registry lines."
"She has been using an old administrative security key to access your firm's secondary maritime development reserves."
The grand projection monitors along the mahogany wall lit up instantly, flashing red warning indicators across the grid.
The unredacted transaction summaries displayed forty pages of unauthorized capital transfers totaling nearly five million dollars.
They had been systematically routing the development dividends to an offshore account registered in the Cayman Islands.
"They thought your focus on the real estate market meant you weren't tracking the signature logs," Naomi Pierce added.
"But the moment she crossed the restaurant threshold, she activated the automated security watermark on the system."
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"Initialize the permanent restriction block, Marcus," I ordered coldly, my focus narrowing into slits of pure ice.
"I want her personal lines of credit closed before the municipal dockets can open tomorrow morning."
