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WHERE ARE THE OTHER TWO?
Ethan stopped directly in front of the overseer, close enough that the man finally had to look at him properly.The overseer’s smirk remained, but Ethan saw the small flicker of irritation in his eyes. Men like him were used to frightening hungry people, not being questioned by volunteers. Ethan kept his voice low and said, “Forget this volunteer tag. If you are not humble about those two missing trucks, and if you refuse accountability, I can do very bad things to hurt you.”The overseer stared at him for a moment, then laughed loudly. “Did you hear him?” he asked his junior officers, pointing at Ethan as if he had found entertainment. “This ordinary volunteer thinks he can threaten me.”One junior worker chuckled. “Maybe hunger has affected his brain.”Ethan’s face did not change. “I only asked where the two trucks went.”The overseer stepped closer, his smile turning ugly. “And I told you it is none of your business.”Before anyone could react, the overseer gathered saliva in his
THE MISSING TRUCKS
The three relief trucks parked inside Camp Westbrook while hundreds of desperate people stood waiting in lines that were too long for the supplies in front of them.Camp workers blew whistles and shouted instructions. Mothers held their children close. Crippled veterans leaned on broken crutches. Elderly men and women struggled to remain upright as the crowd pushed forward. Ethan stood among them in his faded shirt and volunteer tag, watching the supplies being unloaded from the trucks he had personally paid for.A camp officer shouted, “Straight lines! No pushing! Anyone who causes trouble will be removed from distribution.”The warning worked immediately. People became quieter, not because they were calm, but because they were afraid. Nobody wanted to lose their chance at food, medicine, or blankets. Ethan saw a woman grip her child’s hand tightly and whisper, “Stay close. Do not talk. Just collect what they give us.”Ethan tried to move toward the trucks, but the crowd was too thic
THE FORGOTTEN CAMP
Ethan went to the displacement camp the next morning dressed as a man nobody would notice.He wore a faded gray shirt, rough trousers, cheap sandals, and an old cap pulled low over his face. No guards followed him. No convoy announced his arrival. To the tired people gathered outside the camp gates, he was only another volunteer sent to help carry boxes and ask quiet questions.Before leaving Xavier Group headquarters, he had given one simple order. “Send five fully loaded relief trucks to Camp Westbrook. Food, medicine, blankets, baby supplies, and veteran support equipment. I want them delivered today.”Mira had looked at him carefully. “Are you going there yourself?”“Yes,” Ethan said, fixing the cap over his disguised face. “Reports do not cry, Mira. People do.”The camp sat on dry land outside the capital, surrounded by temporary fences, patched tents, and thin wooden poles holding torn shade cloths. Dust moved through the narrow paths whenever the wind rose. Children played wit
THE WHITE WITCH
Ethan’s eyes narrowed. “Then what is the key?”The caller breathed shakily. “The accountant.”Rachel’s fingers froze above the keyboard.Ethan’s voice dropped. “What is his name.”“I cannot say it on this line,” the caller said. “But if you really want to catch Gideon Harrick, stop chasing the money and start chasing his accountant.”Ethan did not answer immediately. His eyes remained fixed on the speaker as the distorted breathing continued on the other end of the line. Something about the caller did not sound rehearsed. The fear was real, and people rarely risked their lives without a reason.His voice stayed calm. “Why?” he asked. “Why help us? If you know this much, why come to me?”The room fell silent again. Even Marcos stopped trying to trace the signal, waiting for the answer. Mira folded her arms tightly, while Rachel unconsciously held her breath.The caller let out a slow, trembling sigh. “Because some debts cannot be repaid with money,” the voice said quietly. “Some can on
FOLLOWING THE MONEY 2
By midnight the next day, the investigation room no longer looked like an office. It looked like a battlefield made of numbers.Screens covered the walls with transaction maps, bank routes, fake vendor names, and red lines connecting one organization to another. Rachel sat before three monitors, her eyes were tired but focused. Marcos stood beside her with a tablet in one hand and a printed ledger in the other, while Mira moved between the screens, pinning each new discovery to the larger pattern.Rachel finally pushed back from her keyboard and said, “Master Ethan, the twelve million dollars was only the first visible crack. When we expanded the search beyond the Verdanis War Recovery Trust, the missing money became much larger.”Ethan stood behind her, his arms folded. “How much larger?”Marcos answered before Rachel could. “One hundred and eighty-three million dollars connected to relief operations cannot be properly accounted for. Some of it is missing. Some of it was redirected.
FOLLOWING THE MONEY 1
Three days after Gideon Harrick called poor citizens economic burdens, Ethan Xavier discovered that the stolen relief money carried Gideon's own fingerprints.The emergency audit room inside Xavier Group headquarters was cold, quiet, and filled with screens. Financial records covered the central table. Donation files, bank confirmations, foundation reports, and procurement approvals had been arranged in clean rows, but nothing about them felt clean anymore.Ethan stood at the head of the table, his eyes fixed on the report Mira had placed before him. Rachel Byrne stood beside the main screen, while Marcos Hale worked through a transaction map on his tablet. Three senior officers from Xavier Group’s philanthropy division sat opposite Ethan, and none of them looked comfortable.Mira spoke first, her voice was controlled but heavy. “Master Ethan, we completed the first internal review. Sixty percent of the funds routed through the Verdanis War Recovery Trust came from Xavier Group humani
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