Chapter 2 - The Ghost of Wealth Past
While Roman Carter basked in the glittering lights of downtown Chicago, sipping champagne with Claire and believing his domestic life was safely tucked away under his thumb, Savannah was executing a surgical strike of her own.
She climbed into her own bulletproof SUV, bypassed the city center entirely, and drove straight to the sleek, obsidian glass headquarters of Sterling-Carter Holdings.
But she didn't go in as Roman’s submissive wife; she walked through the underground executive entrance using a master biometric override code that Roman had completely forgotten existed.
Years before she met Roman, Savannah was the sole heir and operational genius behind Vanguard Global Investments—a multi-billion-dollar shadow syndicate that actually funded Roman’s initial corporate takeovers.
When she married him, she had hidden her true identity, wanting to be loved for who she was rather than the billions tied to her family name.
Now, sitting in the executive boardroom with her loyal legal counsel and chief security officers, Savannah pulled out the master ledger.
Every single asset Roman owned, every shell company he used to hide his illicit kickbacks, and every share of stock that gave him his false sense of invulnerability was legally cross-collateralized through Vanguard trusts.
With a few swift strokes of her pen, Savannah triggered an emergency default clause.
Roman’s corporate bank accounts were instantly frozen, his high-yield investments redirected, and the very penthouse where he was currently entertaining Claire was placed under immediate foreclosure.
Her trusted advisors looked at her with awestruck reverence as Savannah adjusted her emerald winter coat over her protruding belly.
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Roman wanted to play the high-stakes game of betrayal and power? She was about to show him what a true apex predator looked like.
The trap was set, the execution was flawless, and the clock was ticking down to Christmas morning.
