Chapter 4 - The UnmaskingVictoria Grayson tried to walk out, but the security team I had brought in—professionals, not the staff she had tried to bribe—blocked the doors.
"You can't do this," Victoria hissed, her voice losing its sophisticated edge. "I am a lawyer! I have rights!"
"You had rights," I said, standing up. "Now, you have a criminal investigation."
It was during the interrogation phase of the afternoon—as we waited for the authorities to arrive—that a man named Elias, a long-time partner of Miller Woodcraft, stepped forward. He looked at the documents with a grim expression.
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"It didn't start with you, Thomas," Elias said, pointing to a specific name in the shell company registry: Arthur Vane. "He worked for my father in the eighties. He was the one who destroyed our family's woodshop the same way they tried to destroy yours."
The link was clear. The Graysons were just the latest iteration of a parasite that had been feeding on local industry for decades. The scope was much larger than I had imagined.
