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"Joshua," Monica said, stepping into his office the next morning with a thick folder, "I finished the deep dive into Ricky's finances."Ricky's company was carrying serious hidden liabilities, and several loans depended on financial guarantees that were no longer secure."He's carrying far more debt than anyone realizes," Monica continued, laying out the figures. "Several of his major loans depend on guarantees tied to assets that have already depreciated well below what the banks assumed when they issued the credit."Joshua had known about the risks before the bidding began.I knew exactly how thin his position was before I walked into that auction, Joshua thought, nodding slowly as he scanned the figures.He deliberately allowed Ricky to win the first round because he wanted the industrialist to commit more money to the purchase before the truth reached his lenders."I let him win the bid on purpose," Joshua said. "I wanted him committing more capital to this purchase before his len
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Joshua moved quickly after learning that someone planned to purchase the old Harrison property before he could uncover its secrets."I'm entering the bidding myself," Joshua told Monica, pulling up the property's auction listing. "Legally, quietly. No reason given beyond market interest."He entered the public bidding, determined to secure the building legally without revealing why it mattered to him."Harrison's board posted it as an open sale," Monica confirmed. "Anyone with capital can bid. Just keep it looking like an ordinary acquisition."However, he soon discovered that he had a serious rival.The auction hall filled quickly the next afternoon, the Ashford Street sale drawing far more attention than an abandoned property should have warranted.Ricky Jackson, a wealthy industrialist known for humiliating competitors, arrived with an army of lawyers and financial advisers.A procession of men in dark suits filed in behind a heavyset man with silver hair and an expensive watch fla
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"Natalie, surely you're not suggesting there's some hidden treasure buried in an abandoned office building," one executive chuckled."A conspiracy over an old warehouse," another added, smirking. "How dramatic."The laughter rippled around the table, several board members exchanging amused glances.Natalie's father humiliated her by reminding the board that she had no authority to interfere with a property decision."Natalie," her father said coldly, cutting through the laughter, "I'd remind everyone in this room that you have no authority to interfere with property decisions at this level. You're an executive, not the chairman."He accused her of letting her personal history with Joshua affect her judgment."Frankly," he continued, addressing the board now rather than her directly, "I think her personal history with Joshua Hart is clouding her judgment on this matter. We shouldn't let a messy divorce dictate company strategy."A few executives nodded in agreement, murmuring their acc
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Three families, one transaction, and nobody left alive who'll explain why, Joshua thought, studying the gaps in the paperwork. I won't accuse any of them, not Peter's father, not mine, not the Harrisons, until I know which side of this they were actually standing on.He instructed everyone to continue investigating independently and keep the discoveries private."Keep investigating separately," Joshua said. "And keep what we've found between the people in this room. If this reaches the wrong ears too soon, we lose whatever advantage we still have."Natalie, meanwhile, refused to obey her father's warning.She returned to the archive the following afternoon despite his explicit order, slipping past the front desk with a company badge she still technically held.She returned to the archive and discovered that someone had requested access to the same records only days before she began investigating."I need to see the access log for this file," Natalie told the archive manager, sliding t
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Monica's discovery pushed Joshua to contact Peter, who was already investigating his father's old business records."Peter," Joshua said over the phone, "Monica found something. A company co-signed by your father appears in the ownership chain of the Ashford Street building.""I'll check my father's old files tonight," Peter said.Peter initially believed the connection was another ordinary business transaction, but he soon found a matching entry in a contract signed decades earlier.Probably just another overlapping investment, Peter thought, pulling the relevant box from storage. My father had dozens of partnerships back then.The document showed that his father's company participated in a transaction involving Harrison Group and a company linked to Joshua's father.He found the contract near midnight, three signatures across the bottom: his father's, a Harrison Group representative, and the name of a company Joshua had already traced back to his own father's private holdings.Howev
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A plain envelope arrived at Galaxy's headquarters that same evening, delivered to the front desk with no sender listed, no tracking number, nothing at all but Joshua's name typed neatly across the front in plain block letters. This time, a short message accompanied it: "Ask the Harrisons what happened inside that building." Joshua opened it alone in his office, the late hour leaving the floor empty around him. The same photograph stared back at him, his father standing outside the Ashford Street building beneath a streetlamp, and beneath it, a single typed line: Ask the Harrisons what happened inside that building. Joshua compared the photograph with the information from the previous meeting and confirmed that the building once belonged to Harrison Group. He pulled Harrison Group's old property filings beside the photograph on his desk, matching the facade stone for stone, the engraved nameplate, the exact angle of the entrance. Confirmed, Joshua thought grimly. The building be
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