Daniel paused, his eyes narrowing as he looked from his father’s bruised face up toward the ceiling molding.
Mounted against the white plaster of the archway was a sleek, white dome security camera. A single red status LED flickered rhythmically on its side, flanked by three glowing infrared sensors.
"Daniel, don't!" Lin shrieked, her voice dropping its soft, tearful cadence and taking on an urgent, rattling panic. She grabbed his forearm again, trying to pull his face away from the archway. "Don't look at that! He's trying to distract you! He's turning it around on me!"
Daniel didn't move. He reached into his navy jacket pocket and pulled out his smartphone.
Act II: The Hidden Ledger
Chapter 3: The Conspiracy at the Estate
To understand the explosive clash inside the Montgomery hallway, one had to look back six months to the acquisition of the Savannah Shipping Terminal.
Arthur Montgomery had founded Montgomery Logistics forty years ago, building it from three local delivery trucks into a East Coast freight titan. Six months ago, Arthur had uncovered a series of shell company transactions routing eight million dollars out of the company’s infrastructure trust into an offshore entity called Veritas Holdings.