Chapter 4 — The Billion-Dollar Lie
Chapter 4 — The Billion-Dollar Lie
Three hours later...
Our attorneys met in the boardroom of Whitmore Atlantic Logistics.
Nathan expected sympathy.
Instead...
Donovan connected a projector.
"Let's discuss Lila Kensington."
Lila smiled confidently.
"My family's investment office—"
Donovan interrupted.
"There isn't one."
Silence.
He displayed passports.
Tax records.
Court filings.
Another name appeared.
Lila Dawson.
Former cocktail hostess.
Three bankruptcies.
Two fraud investigations.
No inherited fortune.
No seventy-million-dollar family office.
Nathan stared.
"This can't be..."
"It gets better."
Donovan clicked again.
A hospital record appeared.
Negative pregnancy test.
Taken four days earlier.
Lila jumped to her feet.
"That's private!"
"So is conspiracy to commit murder."
She ran.
Security officers stopped her before she reached the elevator.
Nathan finally looked at her.
"You lied to me?"
She laughed.
May you like
"No, Nathan."
"I lied because you were easy."
