Twisted: Belle's Story (Destined Book 3) by Kaylin Lee

Author:Kaylin Lee [Lee, Kaylin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

My fingers brushed the small, folded paper in my bookbag. Behind me, paper rustled as Ella turned the page of her final exam.

I checked Professor Jace one more time. His back was still turned.

Ambrose’s note shook in my nervous hand as I pulled it from my bag and set it on my exam. I broke the wax seal with the end of my pencil and flattened the note on the exam, my heart pounding.

“Discrepancy,” Ambrose had written, his spindly scrawl hurried but still neat. “Smuggling suspected. BA brokerage arm has recorded the following transactions with different companies, all registered to the same address.”

My breath caught as I skimmed the copied transactions beneath his note. He’d found it.

We’d searched for two years to uncover my father’s fraud at the bank. What had begun as a simple search for leverage had become a quest as dear to me as breathing.

Bank Argentarius was far more profitable than it had any right to be. It had been for years. As I expanded my own investment portfolio to include several smaller, competing banks in addition to competing trading companies, I’d realized our profit margins and investment returns were consistently much higher than those of any other bank. Ambrose and I were certain my father was using the bank for more than the official business of loans, investments, and trade deal brokering. For two years, we had used our work in the bank as a cover to search for proof, and now, we’d found it. A hint of it, anyway.

I’d research these companies, and I’d discover what he was smuggling, and then I’d go straight to the Ministry of Justice. He’d have no chance to block my emancipation plea from the palace dungeon, much less use my marriage as a bargaining chip.

I released a breath and allowed myself a tiny, celebratory smile. Freedom was just within my grasp. Days out, at the most. I’d done it.

Behind me, Ella screamed.

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