Chapter 5: Frozen Assets
Monday morning arrived with brutal efficiency. Julian pulled his luxury sports car into a premium gas station, only to have his black card declined at the pump. Cursing at the machine, he tried three other corporate cards. Every single one flashed a red error.
His phone buzzed frantically—it was Richard, screaming that the banks had locked all their corporate and personal accounts.
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By 9:00 AM, Julian sprinted into his office building, but his keycard flashed red at the turnstiles. A process server stepped out from the lobby shadows, handing Julian a thick stack of legal documents right in front of his whispering employees.
It was an emergency divorce filing. Clara hadn't just filed for separation; she had included sixty pages of meticulously documented evidence of Julian's hidden offshore fraud. The trap had been set weeks ago, and Julian had just walked right into it.
