Chapter 10: The Jailhouse Threat
Trapped in maximum security and stripped of her legal avenues, Eleanor’s narcissism morphed into desperate rage. Using a burner phone smuggled in by a corrupt guard, she accessed a hidden offshore account.
She made a single, two-minute phone call to a local fixer, offering fifty thousand dollars to permanently silence Arthur Davies before he could testify.
She thought she was untraceable. But Julian had anticipated her hubris. The private intelligence firm he hired to monitor the estate’s dark money accounts had flagged the offshore wire transfer immediately. They intercepted the cellular frequency, recording the entire conversation. Eleanor hadn't just ordered a hit; she had handed Julian the final nail for her coffin.
